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Comment Re:for the love of god (Score 1) 322

by badmoonrising on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @04:49PM (#43668739) Attached to: Are Some of North Korea's Long-Range Missiles Fakes?

Any ballistic missile they would have would be trivial for our military to shoot down

There is nothing trivial about shooting down a ballistic missile.

They'd need thousands to overwhelm our defenses

This is dangerously incorrect. We only have, for instance, 30 GBIs in our entire inventory (see http://www.mda.mil/system/gmd.html). Nothing else we have will stop an ICBM. You are right about to be worried about unconventional delivery mechanisms though

Comment Re:whats with this trend? (Score 1) 322

by badmoonrising on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @04:39PM (#43668641) Attached to: Are Some of North Korea's Long-Range Missiles Fakes?

so how many more steps will have to be completed before we land a competent assessment that north korea can send a warhead to the US?

None. Nukes plus the ability to put a satellite in space equals HEMP capability (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse). North Korea doesn't even have to demonstrate a viable reentry vehicle to have a nuclear weapon that scares me shitless.

Antarctic's First Plane, Found In Ice 110

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @10:11AM from the ice-tractor-cometh dept.

Arvisp writes "In 1912 Australian explorer Douglas Mawson planned to fly over the southern pole. His lost plane has now been found. The plane – the first off the Vickers production line in Britain – was built in 1911, only eight years after the Wright brothers executed the first powered flight. For the past three years, a team of Australian explorers has been engaged in a fruitless search for the aircraft, last seen in 1975. Then on Friday, a carpenter with the team, Mark Farrell, struck gold: wandering along the icy shore near the team's camp, he noticed large fragments of metal sitting among the rocks, just a few inches beneath the water."

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:11PM from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.

Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:32PM from the a-jetwing-and-a-prayer dept.

Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."

Is the Kindle DX Worth the Money? 263

Posted by timothy on Friday July 03, 2009 @12:20PM from the wouldn't-turn-it-down-in-a-gift-basket dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Now that some little time has passed, and the hype has died down a bit, I'm wondering if anyone has taken the $500 plunge and gotten a Kindle DX. From the academic-paper-reading-geek perspective, is it worth the money? How well does it work with PDFs, and is it easy to get them on and off? I haven't been able to find any good reviews on the interweb that address its usability as I would like to use it."

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