Iminent Danger - North Korea threatens to wipe America off of the globe.

[guartz]

my physics sucks, but, wouldn't something traveling that fast slow down a lot quicker, therefore have shorter distance?

[Melchiah]

It's horizontal vector would remain the same in magnitude for the duration of the flight, forgiving air resistance. Only other force acting on a projectile like that during motion is gravity, which is vertical.

[Max™]

Ya know... last night I was thinking, and it strikes me as amusing that while North Korea is rattling sabers...

Japan just built a life size Gundam Model.

RATS, I WAS SNIPED YESTERDAY BY A GUNDAM POSTER WITH A RAILGUN!

ARGH!

Also: how to get around railguns being limited by the arc of the Earth?

SPACEBASED LAUNCHERS!

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Indalecia]

Yeah, then make one as big as a skyscraper and stand by for kinetic strikes.

[Maguspk]

Kryssan's brain makes me hard.

[Celeste]

We must not allow a stupid dictator gap!

[Brill Weave]

It's safe to say that Kryssan won the thread.

[archibaldcrane]

So...what happened to the boat? Did it reach Burma? Do we have to send Rambo in there armed only with a bow and arrows?

[Atreides]

Kim Jung-Il killed Michael Jackson and Billy Mays so CNN would stop paying attention to his country, that's what happened.

[Vajra]

So North Korea's Newspaper said this the other day:

"Through the U.S. forces' clamorous movements, it has been brought to light that the U.S. attempt to launch a pre-emptive strike on our republic has become a brutal fact," the North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary.

The paper also accused the U.S. of deploying nuclear-powered aircraft and atomic-armed submarines in waters near the Korean peninsula, saying the moves prove "the U.S. pre-emptive nuclear war" on the North is imminent.

And I didn't believe them for a second, until now...


Today's News
Source: Air Force tests missile in launch from Calif coast - San Diego, California News Station - KFMB Channel 8 - cbs8.com

Air Force tests missile in launch from Calif coast

Associated Press - June 29, 2009 8:24 AM ET

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force has successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean some 4,200 miles away.

Lt. Raymond Geoffroy says the ICBM was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 3:01 a.m. Monday and carried three unarmed re-entry vehicles to their targets near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The missile, configured with a National Nuclear Security Administration Test Assembly, was launched under the direction of the 576th Flight Test Squadron.

The Air Force says the launch was an operational test to check the weapon system's reliability and accuracy, and the data will be used by United States Strategic Command planners and Department of Energy laboratories.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[Kerberoz]

I thought it was obvious that we've had SSBNs there for years?

And wtf is a nuclear-powered aircraft? That must be one tiny-ass reactor.

[Correction]

So North Korea's Newspaper said this the other day:

You're just a little slimy ball of panic aren't you?

Kwajalein Atoll - Google Maps

Nowhere near North Korea. Unless you also consider Hawaii close to North Korea.

[Vajra]

You're just a little slimy ball of panic aren't you?

Kwajalein Atoll - Google Maps

Nowhere near North Korea. Unless you also consider Hawaii close to North Korea.

Nice try, but when you test missiles, you don't "try" to launch them so close to a country that threatens war for every action you make, that "may" be meant for them. If you use your peanut-sized, milk donut, bubblegum colored-brain, then maybe you'd see why they launched the missile from California, to the middle of the Pacific, rather than from California, over Japan, and landing near North Korea.

[Correction]

So you're still buying the Scary Red Words that the U.S. pre-emptive strike on DPRK is imminent?

[Vajra]

So you're still buying the Scary Red Words that the U.S. pre-emptive strike on DPRK is imminent?

No, but it seemed like someone was asking about any recent developments on the military activities going on between North Korea and the U.S. So I just so happened to come across an article describing U.S. missile tests, which ended up in the middle of the Pacific, which could only hint, that they are preparing for "something." This test could even be a small test of part of the Missile Defense Shield, who knows.

[Jotaru]

Unconfirmed reports of Air Force personnel deploying to Guam, perhaps in addition to other places, as soon as tomorrow. Could be interesting.

[kuronosan]

No, but it seemed like someone was asking about any recent developments on the military activities going on between North Korea and the U.S. So I just so happened to come across an article describing U.S. missile tests, which ended up in the middle of the Pacific, which could only hint, that they are preparing for "something." This test could even be a small test of part of the Missile Defense Shield, who knows.

Yes, they are preparing for a threatened attack on Hawaii you fucking idiot.

[Vajra]

Yes, they are preparing for a threatened attack on Hawaii you fucking idiot.

Quiet kuro, I was the one who posted the thread pertaining to Hawaii threat to begin with. I was being sarcastic in that post, because Correction apparently thought I was a "slimy ball of panic." Now go back into your little cave of testicular fortitude, and learn to not be ignorant before you speak kkthxbai.

Unconfirmed reports of Air Force personnel deploying to Guam, perhaps in addition to other places, as soon as tomorrow. Could be interesting.

Well there we have it, now we wait and see where this goes...

[Celeste]

Geez, more war! Just what we need..Luckily I'm too insane to be drafted into the military. :3

[Furtwangler]

Is being a fulltime student enough to get out of a draft? When i turn 18 I'll already be in fulltime college sooo