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Google Maps Shows Chinese Nuclear Sub Prototype
mytrip writes "An image of what could be one of China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarines is available on the Google Maps and Google Earth satellite-image site, a defense blogger claimed Tuesday. The satellite picture was discovered by Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, and announced Tuesday on his blog. Kristensen believes the picture, taken by the Quickbird satellite late last year, reveals China's new Jin-class, or Type 094, nuclear ballistic missile sub. The new sub class is approximately 35 feet longer than its predecessor, the Xia-class, also known as Type 092, according to two images Kristensen compares on the blog. The Jin-class sub has an extended midsection that houses 12 missile tubes and part of the reactor compartment, Kristensen explains."
The have the Xia and the Jin class submarines. As long as they don't go Super-XiaJin, we should be ok. /who needs karma..
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So is it true that they have screen doors?
having google maps during the cuban missle crisis or the cold war would've been bad ass...
"dude....call JFK...I think I see a launcher!"
*goes back to playing pong*
If I owned that many Treasury bonds AND a nuclear submarine I'd unfurl a big legible banner in English across the top of it:
PAY UP
Parent is correct. The cost of the 9mm round is distributed amongst all the proletariat.
*ducks* *runs*
That the the family of the guy in charge of security just got a bill for a single 9mm round?
You are completely ignorant if you believe that. The Chinese don't do that at all. They use 7.92mm.
If it's like other stuff they make it's likely to get recalled. So no reason to worry.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
In other news, the Chinese govt just announced plans for the world's largest, submarine-based advertising campaign.
The 220 foot banners, visible from space and deployed in the world's oceans, will read "Come to Beijing for having best memorable Olympics."
No, China trys to be pretty discrete about it's secret killings now.
does it run Linux?
You can see the sailors running around on deck, almost like they're having a fire drill.
paranoid fruit loops are annoying, and need to be made fun of
but you can ignore my caustic attitude towards you and your 1984 mythology, dear paranoid fruitloops. i'm obviously a secret servant of the illuminati
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
That would take a LOT of lube.
I bet if heard underwater, that comment would sound something like "Zing!"
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
You mean, someones going to go ballistic?
Then I suggest you check again, because over here, 0.3<0.33<1
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You, good sir, need to buy a clue! I know better, I've seen CSI!!! Don't you know that they're able to zoom-in, enhance, zoom-in, enhance, and zoom-in, enhance anything? They're able to zoom in (and enhance) on the inverted reflection on the concave of a spoon, which is on a reflection of someone's sunglasses, who is in near-total darkness, and underwater. I've heard they're almost able to do facial biometrics and genetic tests from that same picture!
Surely if they can do that, they can zoom-in enough to recognize people from a high-tech satellite!
Get a grip there, Chief. You *are* paranoid, just not about the government. You're replying to things that only you can see.
When I was like 10 I accidentally dumped a nuke in my friend's swimming pool. I tried to play it off like it was this other kid who nobody liked, but everyone knew it was me.
Please don't use "umm" or "err" or "erm".
In the peoples republic of China Googles sees you!
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damn not the same ring to it as in soviet russia jokes
It's just a cheap Chinese imitation.
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What do you think they're going to do next poison our dog food??