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    Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?

    North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably

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    Image of Jesse in Japan Jesse in Japan
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    There is no way the North Koreans are going to be able to cram one of their gigantic warheads into one of those tiny little missiles.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    Let the secede like her and Todd want(ed) to do. Problem solved.
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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    Now more than ever do I want California to break off and float out into the Pacific.
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    Image of Justin Paulson Justin Paulson
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    Hmmmm, isn't this a little off though since you are putting a flat circle on a flattened out map of the globe. I think your radius would be a little skewed, you'd need to make this in 3d or something and then flatten it to show the real range. That small bit of nitpicking aside, yeah who really thought north korea had any chance of hitting us with a missile? Or better yet, who actually thought they would? It would be suicide for north korea. It's all just a ploy to get resources...like a lame attempt at a ransom.
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    Image of quantumslip quantumslip
    06/25/09

    @Justinpaulson:

    Great circle map: 4000km and 10000km range


    This is more realistic. This is centered around Pyongyang's airport but you get the idea. No shade is the range of the 4000km missle and and the middle shade is the range of the 10000km missle. The darkest is the unreachable parts.

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    Image of quantumslip quantumslip
    06/25/09

    @quantumslip:

    Ok my link got deleted, copy and paste the stuff below:

    [gc.kls2.com]
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/25/09

    @quantumslip: Well, if I was uncertain before, that settles it. I'm moving to Brazil.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/25/09

    @Geisrud: I wouldn't move to Brazil. The Hitler clones get ornery this time of year.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    my main concern is s. korea and japan. i don't believe n. korea would attempt to fire on anyone it's worth noting they tend to posture like this every few years to try and get their way on something or the other.
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    Image of Geph_knows_more Geph_knows_more
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    I'd have to agree.


    It seems pretty absurd that they will threaten us with a "fire storm" of missles...is 5-7 a fire storm these days? Maybe a fire-storm on the small island of Hawaii is what they meant...who knows.


    Seeing as we have about 500 that we can send and target anything bigger than a quarter, all seems like hot air to me.... Then again, since when has Kim Jong-Il been logical...

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/25/09

    @Geph_knows_more: They don't have to annihilate the entire country. Even if they blow up just one city, a million people die.
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    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    I'm going to go play DEFCON; I'll see how it goes.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    What we SHOULD do is park a couple of our carriers off their coast and let Kim sweat it out.
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    Image of tehsquish - Still plays Ultima Online tehsquish - Still plays Ultima Online
    06/25/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: Except he's smart enough to know its too dangerous for us to attack them. He's got some sort of a nuke (how far it can travel doesn't really matter) and that is his ultimate bargaining chip.
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    Image of Geph_knows_more Geph_knows_more
    06/25/09

    @tehsquish - Still plays Ultima Online: If from some crazy reason (very likely) N. Korea did send a Nuke towards the US, we would have no choice but to tactical nuke them into the stong-age. We wouldn't not send one back.
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    Image of Geph_knows_more Geph_knows_more
    06/25/09

    @Geph_knows_more: damn....stone*
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    Image of ElemenopEE ElemenopEE
    06/25/09

    @Geph_knows_more: The US may need to consider S. Korea before launching anything. Our offense may follow well after any attack, and it's a possibilty that it could not be nuclear.
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    Image of OMG Pizza Party!!1! OMG Pizza Party!!1!
    06/25/09

    @ElemenopEE: Agreed. I disagree that a nuclear counterattack is imminent. if there was a military response, it would most likely be conventional but devastating. It's hard to imagine the U.S. ever using nukes again, except perhaps in a massive global nuclear exchange, or extremely low-yield tactical payloads (like bunker busters). Or if Matthew Broderick is elected president.
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    06/25/09

    @OMG Pizza Party!!1!: I don't think we'd level the place, but I think we'd use a similar yield that they used.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    06/25/09

    @Con Seannery's G1: Please. Obama would probably just apologize and refund them a nuke.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    06/25/09

    @Rabid Penguin: I meant to respond to your other comment. But whatever. I got click happy.
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    Image of orrin orrin
    06/25/09

    In reply to Just Where Can North Korea's Missiles Hit?
    Well shit, that's a relief. Always trust Wikipedia.
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    Image of tensenki tensenki
    06/25/09

    @orrin: Where do you suggest I go and get information?
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    Image of Dillinger23 Dillinger23
    06/25/09

    @tensenki: From 40 year old out dated encyclopedias like in college.


    I actually had a teacher tell me that i absolutely COULD NOT use wikipedia because its not accurate. So i went to the library in our school and pulled out the "I" Britannica, 1992 printing and looked up Internet. Lo and behold it was ok to use Wikipedia.

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/25/09

    @Dillinger23: Proving one reference is outdated does not prove another one correct.


    You should use current peer reviewed journals like the rest of us use for research.

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    Image of smirkette smirkette
    06/25/09

    @Geisrud: But that involves...work! And (shudder) reading! Students don't do that nowadays.


    /ex-teacher

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/26/09

    @smirkette: As a current student, I'm happy to say I've never used wikipedia as a resource for a paper.


    I use it all the time for general knowledge and personal interest, but never for academia.

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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    04/05/09

    In reply to North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably
    Looks like Dong blew its payload too early.
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    Image of polishlawngnome polishlawngnome
    04/05/09

    @P3nnst8r: Considering that Kim Jong Il is a woman... I find the sexual reference utterly confusing.
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    04/05/09

    @polishlawngnome: 0_o
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    Image of SpruceStreetPhil SpruceStreetPhil
    04/05/09

    In reply to North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably
    I've launched a rocket from my neighborhood park further than the North Koreans.


    don't believe me??? look what David Hahn did... [en.wikipedia.org]


    and then ask yourself what and where hundreds of store bought model rocket engines methodically strapped to one another would get you.

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    Image of HawaiianActor HawaiianActor
    04/05/09

    @SpruceStreetPhil:
    i don't get how David Hahn proves you have "launched a rocket from my neighborhood park further than the North Koreans," but thanks for the link, because I have never heard of him, and it was actually an entertaining read the successfully kept me from doing work for a few min!


    Also, David Hahn is one scary looking dude...

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/06/09

    @SpruceStreetPhil: If I remember my Mythbusters correctly, an ancient Asian Astronomer into orbit.
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    Image of John Hanacek John Hanacek
    04/05/09

    In reply to North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably
    Alec Baldwin
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    Image of polishlawngnome polishlawngnome
    04/05/09

    @John Hanacek: Tila Tequila?
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    04/05/09

    @polishlawngnome: Ben Affleck
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    Image of hoffmanbike hoffmanbike
    04/05/09

    @John Hanacek: Arec Bardwin!
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    Image of MIKEAWESOME MIKEAWESOME
    04/06/09

    @hoffmanbike: HANS BRIWKS? AW NOO!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/06/09

    @Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: Helen Hunt!
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    04/05/09

    In reply to North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably
    Eh...let them eat war. That's how to ration the poor.


    Maybe their first step should have been to not name their rocket DONG. As if their attempt at waving their penises wasn't enough with the imagery of a rocket going off, they had to name it dong, too.

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    Image of hhkim515 hhkim515
    04/05/09

    @ceilingFANBOY: Um, excuse me? Dong is a Korean name. Not everything rough translated into English has to be a word for you. Get your facts straight.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    04/05/09

    @hhkim515: You mean the Nova wasn't really named "it doesn't go?"
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    Image of eagles3 speeeedin eagles3 speeeedin
    04/05/09

    @hhkim515: Tell you what, I'll take that into consideration when you can, correctly, speak English.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    04/05/09

    @eagles3: Maybe he's just trying to say that his dong is rough.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    04/05/09

    @ceilingFANBOY: Fail.


    To think someone would attach Bad Religion lyrics to such an otherwise terrible comment.


    Someone oughtta slap you, boy...

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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    04/05/09

    @bpapa9013 - Is now an ego maniac thanks to his new star ->: If it makes you feel any better, I originally wasn't going to add that part of the comment. However, I thought that people would be able to figure out that part of the comment wasn't meant to be taken seriously.
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    Image of Moordryd Moordryd
    04/05/09

    In reply to North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably
    Ehh, what was the payload?
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    04/05/09

    @Moordryd: A nuke? But seriously, they told the world that it was a communications satellite.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/05/09

    @Moordryd: Maybe there was no payload. Maybe it was a ballistic missile that they were testing by flying it over Japan.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/06/09

    @Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: Isn't that the plot to "Space Cowboys"?


    @Moordryd: You really want to know what the payload of the Dong 2 was?

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    Image of Zack Nelson Zack Nelson
    04/05/09

    In reply to North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably
    Seems to me that nothing would need to enter orbit for an ICBM and that landing the "payload" in the Pacific would be a great way to show its range because all it really needs to reach that mileage to reach the US, Australia, Russia, France, UK, Spain, well you get the idea. I really don't think this can just be dismissed quickly as a "another pathetic failure by the North Korean clowns, boys and girls."
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    04/05/09

    @Zack Nelson: Okay, but that means this test proved nothing. You see, the Pacific lies between North Korea and the US, as well as NK and Australia. It would seem that it is no issue for this to hit pats of Russia, but not a large portion of it. Europe is not across the Pacific from them, but it IS a good distance. The Pacific is the ocean that borders Korea, not the one across the world.
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    04/05/09

    @Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: But if the second and/or final stage failed, then their ability to target any kind of strike to less than a ~500mi area would be non-existent.


    They might as well lock in a target of "eh, that way..."

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    Image of Gann Gann
    04/05/09

    @Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: The range is only one side of this coin of failure. If this report is true, then they missed their target completely. The rocket they were using technically has the range they were looking for, it failed due the them not knowing what the hell they are doing.
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    Image of madog madog
    04/06/09

    @Zack Nelson: Nobody made it in space or to the moon in one try. If that freakjob can print more many, this will only serve to make them strive harder the next time, and the time after that. Just because he failed this time doesn't mean we won't all be turned into monkeys from the radiation the next time.
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