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'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites
colonist writes "The Russian intercontinental ballistic missile known to NATO as SS-18 Satan was converted to a launch vehicle (called Dnepr) and is now launching American communications satellites for profit. 'The giant rocket boasted up to 10 Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicles, or MIRVs, each of which would have a carried a hydrogen bomb thermonuclear warhead to incinerate a different North American or Western European city. Even more terrifying, some of them were believed to have been fitted with aerosol warheads to spray smallpox virus over their U.S. targets.' However: 'With the Space Shuttle still grounded, the new generation of American boosters still being developed, and demand for reliable launching rockets building up around the world, the prospect of having a huge already-constructed supply of giant boosters built by the most experienced and reliable rocket engineers on earth has been embraced around the world.'"
Let's hope they load the right payload. Nothing like accidentally sending up a bunch of hydrogen bombs!
...and detonating a hydrogen bomb was renamed Freedom Fusion.
A vaccine that hasn't been used in 40 years. So you're left with a bunch of healthy retirees and no children to take care of them?
It'd be like living in florida, everywhere. I'd personally take the H-bomb.
Must every slashdot article mention MicroSoft in the headline ?!?
--LordPixie
They do -- you just have to be given a 'weak' version of the bomb, and you build up immunity.
At least, nobody has ever complained of _not_ building up immunity.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
Jeez, so now we are gonna outsource our sattelite launching...whats next??? (please be the lawyers, please be the lawyers) :P
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Gotta love those NATO designations. Imagine what would happen if a bunch of Fundies found out their latest religious program was made possible via a satellite that was launched by Satan. And from the heart of the former [atheist] "Evil Empire" no less.
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
Osama Bin Laden isn't actually hiding from America. He's got how many wives? I'd say he's using the time-tested technique of Hiding From the Inlaws. Man has perfected this technique over the millenia to an artform. No-one'll ever find him.
The Gipper must be very pleased.
I doubt that he cares. He is too busy trying to get cool.
"I also seem to remember the vaccine being a HUGE pain in the ass, and many soldiers complaining about the care it took and getting sick because of it."
To paraphrase grandparent post:
While you're chewing on an H-bomb, I'll try to manage coping with the smallpox vaccine.
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
I also seem to remember the vaccine being a HUGE pain in the ass, and many soldiers complaining about the care it took and getting sick because of it.
If it was a pain in the ass, then the doctor administered the vaccine to the wrong part of the body.
Headline: "Satan launches new Vatican satellite radio and television service" -or- "Crowds cheer as Satan boosts Vatican into orbit"