Missile defence shield test fails

its very simple really its called MAD.... They launch a nuke before it lands we fire off a scaled response to the attack. Now russia who has the US always targeted as well as china sees the launch. Lets say NK is the target. its really close to russia and china. So they fire on us thinking that we firing on them. We see there there missles. We fire at them with our remaining Peacekeepers. They fire what they have left and the hole world burns to nice snow white ash...

Originally posted by shadarlocoth
its very simple really its called MAD.... They launch a nuke before it lands we fire off a scaled response to the attack. Now russia who has the US always targeted as well as china sees the launch. Lets say NK is the target. its really close to russia and china. So they fire on us thinking that we firing on them. We see there there missles. We fire at them with our remaining Peacekeepers. They fire what they have left and the hole world burns to nice snow white ash...

And in a complete "who shot nice guy eddy moment"
who exactly destroyed Europe then???????

[edit on 15-12-2004 by paperplane_uk]

Originally posted by paperplane_uk

Originally posted by shadarlocoth
its very simple really its called MAD.... They launch a nuke before it lands we fire off a scaled response to the attack. Now russia who has the US always targeted as well as china sees the launch. Lets say NK is the target. its really close to russia and china. So they fire on us thinking that we firing on them. We see there there missles. We fire at them with our remaining Peacekeepers. They fire what they have left and the hole world burns to nice snow white ash...

And in a complete "who shot nice guy eddy moment"
who exactly destroyed Europe then???????

[edit on 15-12-2004 by paperplane_uk]

It wouldn't matter!think about it ,with that many nuclear weapons going off the fallout alone would be enough to wipe Europe/Africa/ and south america out ,the only place you might have a chance is at the south pole(antarctica)

Here is that website on the nuclear chain reaction that would occur if one country launched; I posted this before but some may have missed it:
funnyjunk.com...

As for the missile shield, calling it a "failure" I think is pretty premature. The technology is still too new. Rocket failures and crashes are expected with anything like this. It is part of the learning process. Back when the Soviets launched Sputnik, and the population of the U.S. panicked, NASA and the Air Force didn't see any big deal over what Russia had done. But then the space program got this huge boost, because the gov't politicians didn't understand anything about that. So of course as part of the learning process, what happens: the U.S. launches rockets which turn over and crash. That was EXPECTED. Only the stupid media portrayed them as failures, "collossal failures" quoting them, which the guys involved in the rocket program couldn't believe.

The truth was the U.S. launched always on deadline, and accomplished all the goals it had set out to do. Nothing was a failure in the space program, despire what the public thought.

The same is true for the missile defense right now. A missile defense system is COMPLICATED. You could write a book on how complicated it is to intercept and shoot down one missile, let alone make a "shield." There's TONS of variables involved. So you can't plan it out and then expect it to work "just like that." Problems are going to occur and you learn from the mistakes. That is how the space program has always worked here and it was very successful that way.

What they need is to just keep funding the program and working at it, and eventually the U.S. will succeed hopefully, and if they do, great. A missile shield could be a lot of help in the future. You never know.

Nothing ventured nothing gained remember. The fact that the media is calling it a "failure" when this is one of the very first tests of a "missile" pretty much shows that they don't know what they are talking about. But what would journalists understand about shooting down missiles anyhow??

I am not saying the missile shield will become a reality, but I mean don't knock it 'till it has been awhile.

the thing I find funny is this

Wednesday's trial had been put off four times because of bad weather at launch sites and, on Sunday, because a radio transmitter failed.

So let me see if I understand this right - once the system is finally operational - it will be ineffective / non-operational during bad weather?

Originally posted by paperplane_uk

and in all likelyhood the end of the USA would be the end of the world.

You care to explain how that one works exactly?????????

Simple nuclear winter. The US has enough nukes to cause this alone not even factoring in another countries nukes like Russia or China.

Airburst nukes sending radiation into the air and the sun getting blocked out for months means most plants die and world food production grinds to a halt. All they people that didnt get nuked get to die a slow deth from starvation or radiation.

But not just the US would get hit during a nuclear war. The US has alot of bases in other countries which are targets, And allies of both parties get hit as well. If Russia and the US go at it expect countries like the UK and China to get hit.

[edit on 15-12-2004 by ShadowXIX]