Posted on 06/17/2006 6:15:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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N. Koreans Ordered To Raise Their Flag At 2PM, and Listen to Broadcast
N. Korean leadership ordered its citizen to raise their flag and listen to their (government) communique from TV in the evening, according to Sankei Shimbun (of Japan), quoting Japanese government sources.
The paper said it is paying attention this development because it could be related to the launch of Taepodong-2.
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The accent idea also comes from the book/movie (not a comedy at all) "Failsafe"
Walter Mathau played the character "Dr. Groteschelle" (sp), a German-born Harvard polisci prof who talks about how many kilodeaths and megadeaths certain bombs wil cause.
Everyone in DC knew was patterened after an then unknown Harvard prof named Henry Kissenger.
On FOX at the news break they said the launch is "imminent"...but also it was said in a kind of ho-hum tone, so who knows?
It's night time there now..would they prefer a daylight or dark launch?
I've heard the character was based in part on Edward Teller, who was unmatched in his enthusiasm for nuclear weapons. But Teller was Hungarian and came to the US to escape the Nazis. Between Teller's gung-ho attitude, Von Braun's Nazi past and Kaiser Wilhelm's arm tic, I think it's pretty safe to say the character was a composite rather than a character based on one person.
A recent PBS documentary on the space race portrayed von Braun as someone who was never a committed Nazi, but built weapons as a means to the end of putting satellites into orbit -- something he did extremely well for the US after the war. But it didn't shy away from the fact that he was a party member and an SS major whose V-weapon programs used a lot of slave labor.
Incidentally, the stiff-armed German also made a cameo in Young Frankenstein.
Before I went to bed last night I think I read Fox had reported the missile was being fueled. Was there any further word on that? I guess that's why they're describing the launch as "imminent."
WvB wasn't the best scientist on the project; neither was Robert Oppenheimer. Where they both excelled was at recruiting people smarter than them, organizing their efforts, and selling ideas that seemed pretty out-there at the time to the politicians who provided their funding.
...South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing a South Korean government official, reported that the weather around the North Korean launch site was bad, indicating the North may not fire its missile Sunday.
Satellite weather images posted on the Web site of the South's Korea Meteorological Administration showed clouds around the launch site in northeastern North Korea as of early evening.
A missile launch "depends a lot on weather conditions,'' a South Korean intelligence official told The Associated Press, but he didn't comment on weather conditions in the area.
With such weather, if there was no particular movement by 8 p.m. (1100 GMT) "we can say a missile won't be launched today,'' Yonhap quoted a Foreign Ministry official it did not identify as saying.
A nighttime launch is considered unlikely.
http://www.startribune.com/722/story/500153.html
This from AP:
There are signs" of a missile launch, Jung Tae-ho, a spokesman at the South Korean president's office, told The Associated Press, without elaborating. He said security officials were "closely watching the situation."
South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing a South Korean government official, reported that the weather around the North Korean launch site was bad, indicating the North may not fire its missile Sunday.
Satellite weather images posted on the Web site of the South's Korea Meteorological Administration showed clouds around the launch site in northeastern North Korea as of early evening.
I think the choice of time of day is purely driven by public relations considerations.
When the U.S. launches a satellite, the driving consideration is the intended orbit. You want to launch when you will expend the least fuel manuveuring into final orbit. If you don't care much about the orientation ("right ascension of the ascending node") of your orbit, one launch window looks pretty much like another.
LOL! GMTA:)
My goodness Karl Rove is good! ;-)
Scary good...
I have a feeling this may be a 10k thread.
The rocket on the pad in Musudan-ri, Hwadae County, North Korea is a Taepodong-2.
It has a heighth of 35 meters. At the highest diameter (lower stage booster rocket), it is 2.2 meters in width.
It therefore has a capacity neary 40% MORE than the Taepodong which was launched from there, right smack over Japan, in 1998. This is known from shadow interpretaton from satellite photos taken of the missile just recently by private firms.
Dan Rather is going to anchor their evening news?
Actually, those engineers responsible for the delay have suffered a firing squad and it will take at least 8 years to train another launch crew.
bbl
Thanks for the update.
Thanks for the updates, I see we're still waiting.
Personally I think we ought to shoot the darned thing down if they really launch it.
Gotta run for church - bbl
Tell you what. In twenty-five words or less, you describe the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.
In twenty-five more words, describe why it is so useful.
Not too many smarter than Oppenheimer--Feynman, Landau, Gell-Mann.
Cheers!
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