Norad goes on heightened state of alert

[Proteus_MST]

Isn´t it also the Cheyenne Mountain Complex where Stargate takes place?
So perhaps it isn´t the asteroid, but an incoming attack by the Goa´uld.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Originally posted by Lancer
There's no chance of North Korea hitting the earth.

There is, actually, but only if this happens.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Vandenberg is a missle base.

There is also some nice pig hunting out there. The base is over run with wild boars.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
Your nomenclatura makes a lot of sense.

It was a regular air force base which the air force and nasa now use to launch rockets for both space research and military purposes. It's still owned by the air force though so it is still called an air force base.

[SlowwHand]

I think you're a veteran, in the closet. Free yourself!

[Joseph]

Originally posted by SlowwHand


Jackass! I know that! I was at Travis.

When were you at Travis?

[SlowwHand]

74-78

[The Emperor Fabulous]

U.S. officials: North Korea missile test may be near
Fuel trucks, equipment reportedly have left launch pad
From Elise Labott and Justine Redman
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Fuel trucks have departed the site where a North Korean missile sits on a launching pad, indicating that a test might be near, two senior U.S. State Department officials said Tuesday.

The removal of the fuel trucks and other auxiliary equipment means the North Koreans may have finished fueling the missile, said the officials, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the information.

Should the North Koreans have completed the fueling "all they would need to do now is press the button," one of the sources said.

The second source said the launch could come Wednesday morning Korean time, which would be Tuesday evening ET.

But both officials said no hard evidence points to a launch coming soon.

"It's the Fourth of July and they know we are watching and they like to play with us," said one official, who has followed the North Korean program for years.

The United States, Japan and other countries are concerned about North Korea's reported preparations for a long-range missile test. The North Koreans fired a Taepodong-1 missile over Japan in 1998, but declared a moratorium on future tests in 1999.

President Bush has warned North Korea that it will face further isolation if it violated agreements by test launching a missile believed capable of reaching the continental United States.

"The North Koreans have made agreements with us in the past, and we expect them to keep their agreements," Bush said last month at the end of a European Union summit.

"It should make people nervous when nontransparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles," Bush said. "This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs."

On Monday, Pyongyang's state-run media carried a report accusing the United States of harassing North Korea and vowing to respond to any pre-emptive attack "with a relentless annihilating strike and a nuclear war with a mighty nuclear deterrent."

The White House has dismissed that threat as "hypothetical."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/04/korea.missile/index.html

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Are you people keeping up with North Korea rhetoric?
It isn't ****ing asteroids that has the alert on.

Y'know what I think....

There's no military reason to go on alert because even if the North Koreans did something totally wacky, our nuclear arsenal could, with the push of a button, turn their country into a glow-in-the-dark parking lot.

There's no scientific reason to go on alert because we know that the asteriod was going to miss Earth.

There's no practical reason to go on alert, because even if the NK's did fire a shot at us and/or even if the asteroid were going to hit Earth, Vandenburg etc. hold offensive not defensive military weapons. So putting these bases on alter does nothing to protect us.

We're putting on nuclear offensive capability on military alert as a political move -- to remind NK that our nuclear arsenal is bigger than theirs.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

North Korea test launched a missile early Wednesday morning that landed in the Sea of Japan, Japanese media reported.

North Korea launched the missile at 0332 Japan Time and it crashed into the Sea of Japan several minutes later, public broadcaster NHK reported.



NHK said Japanese government officials were trying to determine whether the missile was a long-range ballistic missile that had been readied for launch recently, or whether it was a different missile.

North Korea had been believed to be preparing a test launch of its Taepodong 2 missile, which is believed able to reach parts of the United States.

Officials were not immediately available to confirm the report.

Edit: CNN Breaking News - "North Korea has test-launched a missile but not the long-range weapon that the U.S. has been monitoring, sources tell CNN."

[Lancer]

Fourth of July fireworks?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

More breaking news:

North Korea test-fires at least three missiles, one of them a long-range weapon that the U.S. has been monitoring, U.S. sources say.

http://www.cnn.com

[Lancer]

Did it just blow up by accident or did we use our phasers?

[Whoha]

Probably accident, nobody reported seeing a giant red line of doom, and accompanying text saying Lazorgeddon!!!. Besides, torpedoes beat lazors.

[snoopy369]

Clearly North Korea is happy to celebrate our nation's birthday