To: NormsRevenge
“The bad news is that the missile itself, after smashing the satellite, appears likely to fall to Earth itself, and our best guess is in the vicinity of Tehran, Iran about three days from now.”
8 posted on
02/21/2008 9:47:44 AM PST by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
The bad news is that the missile itself, after smashing the satellite, appears likely to fall to Earth itself, and our best guess is in the vicinity of Tehran, Iran about three days from now.
".. and unfortunately the missile's guidance computer was powered by a thermal battery consisting of a pile of weapons grade plutonium aligned in a cylinder along the missile's long axis and, hypothetically, if it compresses just right when it smashes into the ground in Tehran..."
19 posted on
02/21/2008 9:58:13 AM PST by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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