North Korea's missile of fail to launch again soon?

[matsuki]

Sems that their bug is totally out of control... flight path here:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=39026

can start betting when and where it will crash back to earf...

Why hasn't any other cuntry up there captured it and analyzed it...or is that why the flight path looks funny?

[yanpa]

Sems that their bug is totally out of control... flight path here:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=39026

can start betting when and where it will crash back to earf...

Why hasn't any other cuntry up there captured it and analyzed it...

Due to the non-existence of spacecraft capable of a maneuvre like that, I suspect. Apart from the now retired space shuttles, but they wouldn't have the delta-V to intercept that orbit, except in Hollywood.

or is that why the flight path looks funny?

Looks quite normal for the angle they launched it at.

[Russell]

Did anyone notice that it just passed right over Coligny's bunker?
(around 20:30h today)

[Coligny]

That little bitch is so fast that I didn't even had the time to moon it...

That's not a good hobby for winter... harbles frostbites are embarassing to explain to yer doctor...

[matsuki]

Sems that their bug is totally out of control... flight path here:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=39026

can start betting when and where it will crash back to earf...

Why hasn't any other cuntry up there captured it and analyzed it...

Due to the non-existence of spacecraft capable of a maneuvre like that, I suspect. Apart from the now retired space shuttles, but they wouldn't have the delta-V to intercept that orbit, except in Hollywood.

You sooooo sure?

[yanpa]

Sems that their bug is totally out of control... flight path here:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=39026

can start betting when and where it will crash back to earf...

Why hasn't any other cuntry up there captured it and analyzed it...

Due to the non-existence of spacecraft capable of a maneuvre like that, I suspect. Apart from the now retired space shuttles, but they wouldn't have the delta-V to intercept that orbit, except in Hollywood.

You sooooo sure?

Ah yes, the Boeing X40A... Maximum speed 480 km/h (300 mph), retired in 2001. Probably even less likely to reach orbit than any given Nork rocket.

I suspect you mean the recently-launched X-37B (OTV-3). Got any more details on that? I'd bet a beer or three that it's not actually able to "captured and analyze" an object in an arbitrary orbit, but I'd certainly like to be wrong about that.

[TennoChinko]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/kim-jo ... nge,30698/

Kim Jong-Un's Wife Escapes North Korea In Long-Range Missile
DECEMBER 12, 2012 | ISSUE 48•50 | MORE NEWS


PYONGYANG—Following North Korea’s sudden and controversial launch of a long-range rocket Wednesday morning, reports have confirmed that Ri Sol-ju, the wife of leader Kim Jong-un, successfully jumped inside the missile just in time to escape the communist country.

“At this time, we are able to confirm that Ri Sol-ju did, in fact, manage to board the Unha-3 mere seconds before it propelled off the ground,” said Defense Department spokesman John Kirby, noting that Ri “quickly evaded her handlers to jump aboard the 100-kilogram missile” in a frantic, yet successful, attempt to abandon her life in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “When we found Ri this morning, she was floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean clinging to the remnants of the missile.”

“There were tears streaming down her face,” Kirby added. “She kept begging us over and over not to send her back.”

Speaking to reporters only hours after being found by U.S. government officials, Ri said that while she was fully aware that jumping aboard the rocket could have killed her, she was certain it was “the only option [she] truly had.”

“I knew the missile could easily explode seconds after taking off and immediately incinerate me, but the second I got inside, it was the happiest I’d felt in nearly a year,” said Ri, noting that she was “willing to do whatever it took to get out of North Korea.” “To escape the grip of paranoia and fear is all I ever wanted. Never again will I have to see our Outstanding Leader’s face, or live under constant fear of reprisals.”

“Please do not tell Kim where I am,” Ri added. “He will find me; he will search me out and find me. I cannot face the work camp. Please, please, I beg of you.”

At press time, North Korean officials issued a promise to all world nations that they would “be spared” if they returned Ri to Pyongyang immediately.

[matsuki]

Ooops, silly me for trusting google image search. Yes, the X37b Is what I meant to post...it's supposedly up there now on a "Top Secret Mission" so who knows..

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[wuchan]

Sems that their bug is totally out of control... flight path here:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=39026

can start betting when and where it will crash back to earf...

Why hasn't any other cuntry up there captured it and analyzed it...

Due to the non-existence of spacecraft capable of a maneuvre like that, I suspect. Apart from the now retired space shuttles, but they wouldn't have the delta-V to intercept that orbit, except in Hollywood.

You sooooo sure?

Ah yes, the Boeing X40A... Maximum speed 480 km/h (300 mph), retired in 2001. Probably even less likely to reach orbit than any given Nork rocket.

I suspect you mean the recently-launched X-37B (OTV-3). Got any more details on that? I'd bet a beer or three that it's not actually able to "captured and analyze" an object in an arbitrary orbit, but I'd certainly like to be wrong about that.

There has only been ONE instance where the USAF discontinued operations of a covert project before much better tech became available and that was the SR-71 (which was brought back into service until a suitable replacement became available).

Shuttle program ended? X-37B?

[Coligny]

Meanwhile in Kimchistan:

kim-jong-un-rocket_2427742k.jpg

[Samurai_Jerk]

Meanwhile in Kimchistan:

kim-jong-un-rocket_2427742k.jpg

Looks like he got a major chubby from the successful launch.

[GomiGirl]

The backstory:

North Korea propaganda taken off YouTube after Activision complaint


A propaganda video from the North Korean authorities has been removed from YouTube following a copyright claim by games maker Activision.

The clip showed a young man dreaming about a North Korean space shuttle destroying a city that resembles New York.

But the footage of burning buildings was taken from Activision's top selling game, Call of Duty.

North Korea insists its space programme is for peaceful purposes.

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