North Korea launch "satellite"
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Its OK for you, you like in Flatland, nothing bad can happen there!!
Depends if they're developing two-dimensional missiles.
Clearly it's both as the technology required to launch a satelite into space is increadibly similar to that required for a long range missile, sputnik the first ever satelite was afterall put into space on top of an ICBM.
The real question is should North Korea be allowed by the rest of the world to develop and test a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to mainland America? The world clearly thinks this is a bad idea as it may limit our ability to bully North Korea, for the first time instead of being dismissed as a bunch of cheap talking nutjobs they would have a big stick to backup their position.
What will come of it? Nothing America and the west will pretend to be outraged China will publicly condem the test and then all will return to normal as yet nobody considers North Korea to be a real threat, however it does look like the time is approaching when the rehtoric of the west may need to be turned into action if they want to keep Noth Korea off the nuclear armed list.
north korea is almost like a 1950s country with modern computing power
Don't destroy the illusion, the media wants you too believe they were locked together in the first of a growing series of tussles in SPACE!!!!!!!1111!!!
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Thats what they want you to think..
Haha, a nice North Korean Bluff
What has that got to do with anything?
You have such an educated and enlightened view....
please tell us o wise one, when you frequently visit North Korea, what is it really like?
Meatsack, I think your YouTube tags went wrong somewhere.
is it not working for you either? i thought it was just me. i've done "[ youtube ]" and "[ /youtube ]", no? (without spaces)
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its got chinese high powered rice cannons
That's what I meant, yes
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There is that, however you don't need mega tech to detonate a nuclear war head, just good chemistry and physics knowledge, the act of detonation is straight forward.
I don't want to sound all American 'lets kill it with fire' but im seriously hoping the x37 is on the satellites tail and is armed with something that could really bugger anything NK launches, if NK did do something stupid that is ! lol
Maybe that's what the US air force is doing, testing space based interception tech, good to have something to do that, can be serviced and launched again soon after.
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china and american already have destroyed their own satelites with missiles
USA shot down an old spy satellite and china shot down an old weather one
But could they do that at short notice?
The satellites they destroyed probably took months of planning etc....
satellites have an easily predictable orbit I doubt its that hard as long as you have the tech to reach them
I'm sure if the tech and practice is there to have shot down your own satellite then it wouldn't be a world away to get rid of someone else's, I doubt short notice has anything to do with it as I expect USA or China already know if it's possible to destroy N.KS sat.
Just depends of the consequences of doing just that, although I sure it's much easier to destroy it before it ever gets outside the atmosphere..
Again consequences of doing just that are unknown to us.
Just depends of the consequences of doing just that, although I sure it's much easier to destroy it before it ever gets outside the atmosphere..
Again consequences of doing just that are unknown to us.