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2006-07-10 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Sherry 2006-07-10 17:03|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Finally! A conspiracy theory I can embrace!

Posted by Unique Battle 2006-07-10 17:17|| 2006-07-10 17:17|| Front Page Top

#2 NoKo failure occured at Max-Q, the portion of the flight when the vehicle is undergoing maximum stress.

Nothing to do with sabotage. The rocketry learning curve is steep, expensive and littered with failures.
For a county like North Korea with only a rudimentary scientific and industrial base, failures will be even more common.

Posted by john 2006-07-10 17:19|| 2006-07-10 17:19|| Front Page Top

#3 A missile with a half-inch hole in it is more likely to fail at Max-Q than one without.

Just sayin', that's all... { ;^)

Posted by Parabellum 2006-07-10 17:44|| 2006-07-10 17:44|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL. Someone has taken serious license with the name of the Taepodong-2 unless, of course, this means "no dong" in Korean.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-10 17:46|| 2006-07-10 17:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Is this believable?

Can't hurt to let the Norks wonder.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-07-10 17:48|| 2006-07-10 17:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone has taken serious license with the name of the Taepodong-2 unless, of course, this means "no dong" in Korean.

The NorKs have three missile designs, the "Hwasong," which is a back-engineered Scud, the "Nodong," which is a larger missile based loosely on the Scud design, and the "Taepodong," which is more or less a Hwasong stacked on top of a Nodong.

I don't know what the Korean names translate to, though I'm pretty confident that they don't name their missiles after penis jokes. Can't imagine that would sit well with the Dear Leader.

Posted by Mike 2006-07-10 18:34|| 2006-07-10 18:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, I am no small arms expert, but a quick Google search for the M107 sniper rifle shows a maximum effective range of less than 2500 meters. This would mean that the sniper would have to be probably within 1000 meters of the launch pad. I cannot believe that anything larger than a mouse get that close to the missile. (and the mouse would probably have been eaten.)

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2006-07-10 19:13|| 2006-07-10 19:13|| Front Page Top

#8 As I've speculated elsewhere, wouldn't it be hypothetically interesting if we had some kind of device that could invisibly interfere with a rocket at launch from a great distance away, say very high altitude or even from space?

All it would have to do is affect the metal in some way--not even an obvious way--that weakens it just a little bit. All sorts of radiation can do that. Just make it a tad more flexible, or a scoonch more brittle.

Metallurgy sometimes seems indistinguishable from magic.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-10 21:15|| 2006-07-10 21:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Anyone seen Sam Fisher recently?

Posted by Glogum Thaviling3232 2006-07-10 21:23|| 2006-07-10 21:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Mike: I don't know what the Korean names translate to, though I'm pretty confident that they don't name their missiles after penis jokes.

The Nodong is just the Korean word for "labor". The Taepodong is named after the launch site (whose name translates roughly to "big hole on a beach", kind of like the way many places are named after distinctive geographical features).

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-07-10 23:03|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-07-10 23:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Chemical megawatt laser?
Space based platform?
I know, prolly not.
But let me have my fantasy.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-10 23:12|| 2006-07-10 23:12|| Front Page Top

#12 The Taepodong is named after the launch site (whose name translates roughly to "big hole on a beach"

Oddly prophetic, considering how well (poorly) it flew.

Posted by Mike 2006-07-10 23:41|| 2006-07-10 23:41|| Front Page Top

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