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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.'"
Because it was intended to rain hell on it's foes.
Standing on the shoulders of giants.
Would YOU want a missile named "Satan" hitting YOU?
These things were set up to carry either nuclear warheads or the smallpox virus. I'd say "Satan" is a pretty appropriate name for them.
...in Soviet Russia, a Satan missile deliberately calles you!
maibe the hydrogen bomb payload could have somthing to do with it ;)
All indicators show that the human race is selectively breeding itself for stupidity.
...and I suck at spelling
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I don't know that I'd call it funny. I honestly don't have a good word for it other then insightful. Perhaps "insightfully ammusingly clever."
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