SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - News : DPRK Launches Missile

SUBSIM Radio Room Forums (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/index.php)

- General Topics (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=175)

- - News : DPRK Launches Missile (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=150264)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1078321)

It is difficult to launch a satellite without going over someone's country. As Canada and Mexico can attest. There are treaties and international agreements that allow this.

So, no, Japan would not be within its rights to shoot down a commercial satellite rocket.

hey ! dumb ass where is the treaty with japan ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai (Post 1078319)

Japan would have been well in its rights to shoot it down. Heck what they did is practically an act of war. Can you imagine what would happen if they had lobed it over say US soil into the Atlantic.

Or any World power,:up: NO EMOTICION.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Task Force (Post 1078590)

Now that North korea has finished with the missile... Can I play with it.:D

I want to see how you want to play with it when it lands on your country and kills alot of innocent people.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TDK1044 (Post 1078475)

With multiple US Birds up there with electromagnetic pulse capability, should it 'accidentally' stray into an unwanted orbital position, it'll become just another piece of space junk very quickly. :DL

Oh boy. Just what we need. More space junk. :dead:

Quote:

Originally Posted by TDK1044 (Post 1078475)

I'll sleep better that YOU know what your talking about. :roll:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1078321)

Not exactly, you generally need permission or a test treaty in place to lob things through a country's Airspace, and countries do have the right to shoot things down that enter that airspace (which is why spy planes can be blown out of the sky). This is partly why nearly every space fairing nation has launch facilities that launch eastwards over an ocean (the other being so stages and other debris end up in the ocean and not on another country). Also North Korea is a rogue nation, and one can never be sure what they are launching. Given all of that Japan would have had the right to shoot it down. Since the first stage had a chance of hitting Japan, we know that it was defiantly not in outer space when it passed over Japan (and never reached LEO or better since it crashed in the ocean not long after).

Someone posted on the first page a photo of Kim from team america.

What would be more appropriate given the world's response would be one of hans Brix! "we will be very very angry with you, and we will write you a letter telling you how angry we are".:rotfl:

Quote:

Originally Posted by baggygreen (Post 1078732)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJRcLtsuq4

It didnt crash by itself.

I phasered it from orbit.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2z72zv6.jpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1078754)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJRcLtsuq4

Thanks oberon. That made my day!! nearly wet myself tho

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips (Post 1078761)

It didnt crash by itself.

I phasered it from orbit.

Illogical, such an action would contravene the Prime Directive.

It is, much more logical to come to the conclusion that it was this gentleman who, in fact, altered the rocket...

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5651/garyseven.jpg

A nice message from our good friends at the North Korean Ministry of Unintentional Comedy at the bottom of this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7991151.stm

"A recent report in North Korea's communist party newspaper said Mr Kim was "choked with sobs" that the money spent on the launch could not be used for the people's basic needs - but added that they would understand."