Whoops!

So I guess there's a satellite that is careening towards earth which is "fine" because there is only a 1 in 4 chance it will hit land, and even then there's only a 1 in 2 chance that the toxic chemicals it will emit will harm someone or something. But just to be safe, the government is going to shoot it down. We're fighting the war there so we don't have to fight it here. Even though we're the ones who... put it there. But what really gets me is that they're not shooting it down out of safety concerns for those people on the ground. Instead they are worried that if the Russians get a hold of it, they'll get all these spy secrets about us. Oh, and it's 1985.