It seems people just don't want to contemplate the most likely sender of this packet. North Korea have launched numerous rockets in the past, some of them flying over Japan, causing a lot of anger and concern. They are predictably unpredictable and less than a month ago called a us-led naval exercise off its coast a "declaration of war". Whether this is a response or perhaps last month's harsh words were a run-up to a long planned demonstration. Either way, it's the only explanation that makes sense.

California may be west of many things, but last time I checked it was on the east side of the Pacific.

How about this: Try to just attach some connectors and see how it works.

This is good news, since JavaScript is a good language. I've been working on a pet project for a while, which could perhaps be combined with this, to simplify the inclusion of snippets of C code where performance is an issue. Have a look at http://jsext.sourceforge.net/Including%20C%20functions.html