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North Korea's Satellite Tumbling In Orbit

schwit1 writes: U.S. Defense officials stated Tuesday that the satellite that North Korea launched on Sunday is now tumbling in orbit and is useless. Do not take comfort from this failure. North Korea has demonstrated that it can put payloads in orbit. From this achievement it is a very short leap to aiming those payloads to impact any continent on Earth. They might not be able to aim that impact very accurately, but if you want to ignite an atomic bomb somewhere, you don't have to be very accurate.

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  1. Woo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Scary summary, better clickbait

  2. Re:dmbasso is a pedophile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I suppose someone who enjoys watching Saw likes personally torturing people to death whom they deem unworthy of living?

    Or perhaps, unlike you, they are making the same leap my 6 year old can make. That what's animated or on screen is generally not actually happening and thus separates entertainment from fact where such a judgement call is obvious (unless you live in a world where cartoon people with big eyes are running around, in which case, watch for papercuts, please).

    Kind of sad to see someone who didn't manage to get past 6 years old in judgement.