It utterly blows my mind that ANYONE would believe Russia is shooting missiles over California (this is twice now claimed as far as I know, possibly more!)

What would Russia even have to gain ? Show that America is weak? Well with Russia claiming its the U.S., that argument goes out the window!

Was trying to find a video of a shuttle coming in at night, never did find it, though I couldn't find a good comparison myself I found some pretty good stuff about all the designed for demise techniques in use and how they chart the footprints of the debris field of our space junk.

I postulate space technology shows of force between the superpowers, say those bad explosions of china were a weapons test/tech intimidate check from the former solo super power. Orbital based high energy or projectile like guass rifle would be sufficient to make these warehouses that happened to be over safety regulations chock full of potential explosives devastatingly combust.

Perhaps another player in the game has the technology to do the hacking required in order to down a satellite in just the best fashion as to show it off to an entire coastline on onlookers.

Regardless, all the meta-data generated will be plenty of good numbers to crunch if you wanted to see how fast information about a localized incident spreads via social networks. Could this be a test of how well the media covers or portrays such an event against the spread of initial reports and how much more or less those numbers compare to the correcting of information upon official statements from the ministry of truth?

A fine art of how to best make the best of any situation. Create a feedback loop in the system that favors the subjected truth that demands our acting and thinking thus posting about it online, playing back into the theory that the game system recently posted about the Chinese governments system supposedly going live in 2020. What if it is already a system in use, maybe at a giant complex in Utah? Just waiting for all the legislation required to pass to bring it live so that it is accepted as just another freedom lost in the damnable war against terror, maybe even being pushed at an accelerated rate by those with the skill and resources required to pull-off such accelerated conditions that precipitate the state of affairs we currently find ourselves, to willing accept the future that preserve those entities which hold such power over the populace of 7+ billion.