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North Korea Missile Launch Fails
An anonymous reader writes "Remember the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch by the North Koreans last night? You know, the one that went over Japan and supposedly put a 'communications satellite' into orbit. Well, according to the US Northern Command and NORAD it has been a complete and utter failure, with the second stage and payload 'falling in the Pacific.'"
Fail.
You'd think even North Korea could get a missile launch right. I mean, it's not rocke...err, oh yeah, nevermind.
Not to be confused with ICBM's. :-)
Let me guess, they couldn't figure out how to get the Photoshop crack to work.
You have to overwrite the .dll file!
Are we even sure these are actually rockets ?
Given how much Kim likes to party these could just be really big fireworks.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Is the Glomar Explorer still in service?
I hear the rocket was carrying a load of BS ... and that, given the international community's response to the launch, we can say that the rocket did, in fact, hit its target.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
GO KOLEA!
There.
How do you know that's true if you're not reading the official North Kolea Blog?
The outcome of the test says a lot more about that than anything we would discover by forensic analysis (which is of course precisely why they were performing the test).
I'm sure you could put Kim Jong Il in a hissy-fit by saying you found it and were reverse engineering secret NK technology, however. ;)
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
Are you talking about North Korea, or the USA?
I wouldn't be surprised if they dredge the thing out of the ocean only to find some North Korean expletive scrawled on the side - something like "screw you America, and your little submersible too!".
-AC
How funny would it be if they actually called their shot and put the vehicle down right where they told NATO they would.
And the free world news outlets are trumpeting the failure - all the while our generals are having aneurysms in the war room.
Far from a failure. North Korean Scientists put their satellite in an extremely low geosynchronous orbit!
A bit wetter than they thought it would be though.
Tests aren't failures as long as you learn from them.
Can you tell that to Dr. Boldyrev, my chemistry professor?
assuming North Korea didn't include an auto-destroy mechanism onboard
If they did, they better hope it worked better the the rest of the mission.
Turns out, it IS rocket science! Who'da thunkit?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
Then maybe Japan should change its flag so that it looks less like a bullseye.
How is this a failure? They launched an ICBM that cleared Japan before hitting the water, thus proving they now have the capability to deliver a nuclear strike against Japan.
They've been able to throw payloads as far as Japan for years.
If you're defining "success" as "no progress since 1993", then yeah, this latest test is a success.
Which is funny, because that's exactly the definition the U.S. anti-ballistic-missile program has been using...