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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Millions starving, sick, and oppressed - all with the blessings of the previous administration (and with not a lot of dissuasion from the current admin.), yet they have the money and resources to assemble an ICBM and just test fire it.....
Rankings > Military expenditures - percent of GDP (Top 25)
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Oh... I should have included the US... we're way down from that at 3.30% of GDP
Karl Rove saves the day with his weather machine, film at 11, flag raising optional but recommended.
North Korea is not expected to test-fire a Taepodong 2 long-range ballistic missile within Sunday despite increasing signs indicating such an action, Japanese Defense Agency officials said late Sunday afternoon.
Defense Minister Fukushiro Nukaga called a meeting of Defense Agency officials to analyze information related to North Korea''s suspected preparations for test-launching the missile.
Participants reached a conclusion that there would be no firing at least within Sunday, agency sources said.
Among officials present at the meeting were Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya and Self-Defense Forces Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Hajime Massaki.
Emerging from the meeting, Nukaga told reporters that there were no noticeable development as of late Sunday afternoon. The government will continue to gather information about the situation, he said.
My information must have been wrong then...
I just hope that if there are any Freepers in San Franweirdo they get out in time.
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If I could do that, I'd be on the faculty somewhere. I could slap together 25 words from the various sources I found on Google, but that wouldn't mean I understand it.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not disputing that Oppenheimer was a smart guy, a hell of a lot smarter than I am. My point was that his main contribution to the Manhattan Project was not in the basic science. It was because he was smart enough to recognize the strengths of his team, understand what they came up with, direct their efforts, and go from an equation to a smoking crater in a matter of a few years.
That's no small feat. Start with a pretty small pool of people who get this stuff to begin with, and then narrow that further to a smaller pool of people who can manage those physicists and keep them pointed in the same direction. Narrow it still further to the folks who can explain it to a layman. That's where you get the exceptionally rare genius of an Oppenheimer, Feynman, Einstein, Sagan or Hawking.
That was my point about von Braun, which I illustrated with the comparison to Oppenheimer. WvB probably couldn't tell you, off the top of his head, how many pounds of thrust a given engine design would produce; but he could, in a nanosecond, point to the guy who knew. And then he'd tell you what that capability would mean for the future of mankind.
Good morning!!!! So, did the flags go up? What was the NK message?
I think the United States ought to reply with our own flag raising.
Good morning. Looking for an update as well.
All I have seen so far is launch delayed due to weather.
Drink Ovaltine? ;-)
Here. I'll help.
You can zoom and get the support facilities (assembly, fuel) as well as access roads, barracks, administration and the launch complex facility itself (minus a missile on the pad, of course. The most recent was probably taken a year or two ago). Make your Google Earth "longitude and latitude grid marks visible"-capable, and go with the grid, zoom in and out to find. To see these following, try:
launch pad at 40.8557 N, 129,6658 E, an engine test stand at 40.8523 N, 129.6798 E, a missile assembly/checkout building at 40.8558 N, 129.6592 E, and a missile control building at 40.8630 N, 129.6604 E
I guess we Yanks have our launch countdown holds and scrubs, and they do, too!
Thank you Lord.
Amen! Amen!
New Mexico?
Now if we can get thru today, will this be the weekend that could have been?:')
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