[Squantos]

Or a temperature inversion on the day and it bounced off the thermal and got a twofer dead cat’n rice bounce..... My swag on that.

[familyop]

"Or a temperature inversion on the day and it bounced off the thermal and got a twofer dead cat’n rice bounce..... My swag on that."

That's interesting--something that I hadn't thought of.

BTW, on that "dud" that N. Korea fired many moons ago, that was reportedly done in a cave of Russian design to avoid detection (baffles, etc.). Sorry I can't find the right keywords to get a link for that right off, but here's another tidbit that might be interesting.

Isotopes hint at North Korean nuclear test(fusion boost test in 2010?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2842845/posts

[familyop]

More recent info.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2987635/posts?page=24#24

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2981026/posts

[archy]

Or a temperature inversion on the day and it bounced off the thermal and got a twofer dead cat’n rice bounce..... My swag on that.

Happened with one of the Nevada Test Site blasts, didn't it? I vaguely recall Howard Hughes being concerned that one such sort of hurt business at his Las Vegas casinos, and called the then-president and told him to cut that stuff out if they wanted any more Hughes Aircraft air-to-air missiles.