North korea

[buddyzen]

when is captain bobble head launching his "" cellphone satalite missle"" ?? i really do not believe that that is really what it is though but i was just wondering if anyone knows when it is to be launched.

[Theory5]

Lol, now who is "Captain Clueless", mike?

Got any links for us? I havent heard about any new type of missile. I heard North Korea was talking about launching a "weather satillite" and China and a couple other Asian countries were threatening to blow it up if they launched it. I don't blame them, North Korea's leader is very unstable and probably will try to launch weapondry or something else instead.

[freeztar]

Here's a link to a recent news story about North Korea and missile testing:

 

North Korea has said it intends to launch a communications satellite between April 4 and 8, asserting it has the right to do so under its space program. Washington and its allies in Asia see the plan as a disguised long-range missile test.

 

The North's Taepodong-2 has a range that could take it to Alaska. But analysts do not expect the United States to intercept the rocket, a move Pyongyang has said it would consider an act of war.

U.S. commanders say ready for N.Korea missile | International | Reuters

[buddyzen]

well we will see next week..... :friday: maybe it is a goodbye for sara palin ., hehe

[Moontanman]

I rogue missile strike doesn't really worry as me as much as one of those "we want to live in the middle ages" countries launching a orbiting warhead and detonating it in space. A high altitude launch could do severe damage to what ever country it was detonated above not to mention knock out a huge number of satellites with the explosion and resulting radioactive cloud. The EMP would really be devastating, it could do irreparable damage to nearly every part of our technological society.

[Theory5]

I rogue missile strike doesn't really worry as me as much as one of those "we want to live in the middle ages" countries launching a orbiting warhead and detonating it in space. A high altitude launch could do severe damage to what ever country it was detonated above not to mention knock out a huge number of satellites with the explosion and resulting radioactive cloud. The EMP would really be devastating, it could do irreparable damage to nearly every part of our technological society.

What country would want to do it or be crazy enough to do it? (besides North Korea obviously)

[Moontanman]

What country would want to do it or be crazy enough to do it? (besides North Korea obviously)

 

Oh maybe Pakistan after the taliban take over?

[Theory5]

Well, North Korea launched a rocket. They claimed it was a test model to try to get into space. It crashed into the ocean, saving other countries the problem of shooting it down. North Korea did tell its own citizens that it was successful.

The rest of the worlds leaders are deciding what to do about this new development.

Despite Warnings, North Korea Launches Rocket - TIME

[Moontanman]

All they need to do is a get a small nuke into low earth orbit and detonate it and who ever is under it is knocked back to pre WW2 levels of technology, maybe further!

[Theory5]

All they need to do is a get a small nuke into low earth orbit and detonate it and who ever is under it is knocked back to pre WW2 levels of technology, maybe further!

 

How does that happen?

[Moontanman]

When a nuclear weapon detonates it releases an Electromagnetic Pulse, an EMP. The best way to maximize this EMP is to detonate the nuke in low earth orbit, the US did it once over the mid Pacific Ocean, it shut down everything electrical even sheep shearers as far away as Australia. The damage down was extraordinary considering how small the nuke was and the extent of the damage. Modern electronics are if anything even more susceptible to EMP than 1960's Australia was. All autos, airplanes, computers, banks anything electronic would be damaged, most beyond repair. Things like electric grids would be over loaded and shut down. During the cold war one the of the most considered attack scenarios was to detonate a nuke above a target and knock out everything electrical before invasion instead of actually nuking a place.

[Moontanman]

Oh yeah, that's not counting what it would do all earth orbiting satellites, very bad thing EMP.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

[Theory5]

Interesting. But I dont think north korea would go through all that trouble as to do that. heck, I doubt they even know of this effect :-P

[sanctus]

Interesting. But I dont think north korea would go through all that trouble as to do that. heck, I doubt they even know of this effect :-P

Let's not get towads racism here Theory5 (just wanted to say it harshly, I know there was no such intent by your part), there is no reason why they should not know. They are not stupid and the real followers (like for example the researchers who built that rocket) have unrestricted access to the internet, so they can read about such things on plenty of sites like this...if they wouldn't know about it already, which I strongly doubt, because I have no idea about building a rocket and its electronics, but I knew about EMPs. So I deduce that their electronic engineers know it for sure.

 

Also, I would have to check, but I do not think there is no education for everyone, if you are born in the right family, I think you get a kind of decent education. So yes it will be a minority, but there are people with a quite education also there.

[Moontanman]

Yes Sanctus, I agree, thinking that North Korea wouldn't know because they or their society is inferior in some way would be a mistake. Racism is very bad thing no matter how you cut it but to assume your enemy is inhuman in an attempt to denigrate him is and was a mistake. The USA did that to the Japanese at the start of WW2 and payed for it by not bing prepared when the attacks came. I never assume any one isn't capable, assume the are and be pleasantly surprised if they are not!

[Theory5]

Let's not get towads racism here Theory5 (just wanted to say it harshly, I know there was no such intent by your part), there is no reason why they should not know. They are not stupid and the real followers (like for example the researchers who built that rocket) have unrestricted access to the internet, so they can read about such things on plenty of sites like this...if they wouldn't know about it already, which I strongly doubt, because I have no idea about building a rocket and its electronics, but I knew about EMPs. So I deduce that their electronic engineers know it for sure.

 

Also, I would have to check, but I do not think there is no education for everyone, if you are born in the right family, I think you get a kind of decent education. So yes it will be a minority, but there are people with a quite education also there.

 

Really? The scientists in North Korea get unrestricted access? interesting.

 

Racism? I am sorry if my post gave you that idea. I was refering to a few things that had nothing to do with racism. The first thing is their mentally impared leader, I doubt he would figure out about that effect. The second thing well it was referring to the censorship of the internet. I heard they can only look at two sites and they are both government sites. The third thing was referring to was the way their rocket failed.

[Moontanman]

Sorry about the racism claim dude, but it truly is a mistake to underestimate the enemy. If these guys can make a bomb they know about EMP for sure.