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Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea
cbrocious writes "Yahoo! News is reporting a mushroom cloud over North Korea that occured on Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China. 'The explosion in Kim Hyong Jik county blasted a crater big enough to be noticed by a satellite, the source said.'"
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Someone set us up the bomb!
Ah am not a crook! (\(-__-)/)
all of our troups are in Iraq.
- - - If the sun is a star, why can't I see it at night?
But the cloud was produced by MS word...
Those wacky North Koreans... at it again.
Nuclear Launch... Detected
....who looked at the title of this article, and wondered whether it was North Korea or the U.S. who dropped it?
Before you mod me funny, think, perhaps I was insightfully funny?
> Are we gonna have to wait until he strikes oil?
I hear that South Korea has been sneaking barrels of oil across the border, hoping to provoke Bush into attacking the North.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
See? I *knew* that reading all 1800 pages of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears would come in handy...
I know, it was only 800 pages. It just *felt* like 18000... That book would have been much better as a 400 page book.
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In related news King Koopa claims that the giant mushroom cloud which appeared at the former site of the princess's castle was not atomic but the result of a freak accident which occured when genetic micologists attempted to create a hybrid of the following mushrooms: 1up and BigUp. Apparently, the hybrid had been left near a fire flower and BOOM! Mushroom cloud.
Hey now, maybe it's a good mushroom cloud. You know, like umm... err... a cotton candy factory exploding. That wouldn't be too bad, right?
No, military action is only to be used against countries that have huge oil reserves.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
From the article you linked:
North Korea has said that news of recent nuclear experiments in the South has made it even more determined not to abandon its own weapons programme.
You know what else motivates the North Koreans into developing nuclear weapons? Rabbits. And the Goodyear blimp. And sock puppets. North Korea is going to justify thier weapons program using every wack-job idea they can come up with. The color of Bush's tie offends them, so they have to develop nuclear weapons to protect the North Korean people from that horrible shade of cornflower blue.
It wasn't US and S. Korean experiments that caused the north to develop nuclear weapons, it was US and S. Korean existence that caused them to do it.
Behind one these curtains is a weird, probably psychotic dictator with weapons of mass destruction? Can you guess which one?
A: Behind our curtain!
Patent: from Latin patere, to be open
CNN has a similar story up now, speculating that it might be the result of a forest fire...
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South Korea (especially the younger generation) wants the US out. So, ...
1) Leave SK
2) Declare that we'll officially recognize whatever government is in control of Seoul.
3) Hope NK attacks
4a) If not, worry about someplace else, and keep asking why the PRC (as the 2nd superpower) has not handled the problem. Imply that this is a stain on the national honour of the PRC and their people.
4b) If so, ask the UN if we can take care of this act of "unprovoked agression" or say we already have the right due to the Korean War UN resolutions (the Korean War never offically ended remember?)
Looks like they really did find Osama...
Don't worry, as soon as we get Skynet up and running everything will be fine!
Who farted?
Well, that's just great, but North Korea isn't in Southeast Asia.
Wars are Gods way of teaching Americans geography.
Of course we have a choice:
Would you like to play a game?
>list games
Ball
Global Thermonuclear War
>play Global Thermonuclear War
How about a nice game of Ball?
>No, I would like to play Global Thermonuclear War.
Very well...
Seriously though, of course we have a choice. We didn't cave in to the USSR, I don't expect us to give a cowtow to N. Korea. Seriously, expect a carrier battle group in the Sea of Japan ASAP if there isn't one there already. Expect half of the U.S. Navy including a dozen submarines loaded with 60 ICBM's each sitting off the coast of North Korea very soon. Oh, we'll be playing "ball" all right.
My other first post is car post.
To celebrate our Glorious Leaders day of triumph and victory as he continues to lead the world.
Take two gases that are explosive when combined and ignigted and put them in two big tanks at a great presure then release it all at once and a split second later when the expaning mix covers a football field, but is still at very high (80+ atmospheres iirc) detonate them.
You forgot to add "stand back".
I'm glad you cleared that up. I thought you were talking about Bush.
dude, apparently you didn't get the memo. it isn't mass murder, it's a "pre-emptive strike on an emerging threat."
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Bah. It was clearly Dan Rather's credibility imploding.
If North Korean mutants take gold in every event, it was probably a nuclear explosion.
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
> I suggest you better check you facts before you post.
Yes, quite.
>Sure we have another choice. We can blow them to hell
Yes, General Ripper. That will ensure the purity and essence of your precious fluids.
what will they tell us?
That throwing your cigarettes out the window in NK is NOT a good a idea...
CNN NEWS ARTICLE
Ok, you're possibly correct on many counts. But the things I'm seeing so far from the Washington spindoctors look suspicious to say the least. One report on CNN said that an American official believes it was a large forest fire. Could you imagine the diplomatic exchange here (apologies to Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and the rest of the loonies):
North Korean official: We've tested a nuke near the China border.
US official: No you haven't.
NK: Yes we have, and we have the seismographs and radiation signatures to prove it.
US: 'Tis but a scratch. It was probably an earthquake.
NK: There's a big stinking radioactive hole in the ground!
US: We've seen worse.
NK: You liar!
[NK tests a second time over the Sea of Japan -- blast seen from Pusan, South Korea and Fukuoka, Japan]
NK: There -- everyone has seen it. Victory is ours.
US: Hah!
NK: Look you stupid bastard! We've tested twice now, and your own radiation-monitoring satellites confirmed it!
US: No they haven't.
NK: Look!
US: It's just a flesh wound. Could just as easily have been a forest fire.
NK: In the Sea of Japan?!?
US: Chicken....
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
"Our words are backed by NUCLEAR POWER"
heh
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Dr Strangelove? Is that you?
Or... The cloud could be the result of everyone eating too much kimchee during the festivities.
Hey, it's just as plausible as a forest fire!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Feel better? Good. Let's all go to McDonalds!
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
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I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
Smokey the bear says "Only you can prevent international nuclear panic"
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Yes, because movies are the definitive guide to modern technology.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
I blame extreme overclockers: Transcript from last few seconds "I think I can get 2 more Mhz out of the FSB, loo..."
"Why exactly? (Except for my stupid mistake of writing "2nd" instead of "cold")."
:|
You were going to write the "cold world war"?
I suggest as a minimum reading a bool called the Curve of Binding Energy...
So, is it true or false?
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
" Germany has an army. During the 2nd world war it was the backbone of NATO"
That's right. If I remember correctly Hitler was a big proponent of allowing israel into the EU as well.
Cheney?
And GW Bush thinks the world was created 4,000 years ago by a guy floating around on a cloud. Kim Jong Il is having tasty dinners every night - who's insane?
They probably buried to much kimchee together and it reached critical mass. Rotting cabbage in an enclosed container produces highly explosive gasses. And when you bury them in a collective farm they usually pack them too close together. Then blammo. An enourmous cabbage cloud, not mushroom cloud, shoots skyward. I do understand that any kimchee that survives the inferno is pretty tasty.
Thank God they didn't do that on the Moon or it we would have lost it.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?