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06-20-2003, 03:18 PM
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Missile Misses Target, Officials Call it a Success
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"I wouldn't call it a failed test, because the intercept was not the primary objective," said Chris Taylor, a spokesman for the MDA. "It's still considered a success in that we gained great engineering data. We just don't know why it didn't hit."
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06-20-2003, 03:27 PM
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Silver lining, etc.  | |
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06-20-2003, 03:30 PM
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hmm posting links to The Onion?  | |
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06-20-2003, 03:44 PM
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Have a friend from across town shoot a bullet in the air. Then while your on the other side of town, take a gun and try and shoot his bullet out of the air with the bullet from your gun.
That's pretty much what we are dealing with here. 
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06-20-2003, 03:48 PM
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I bet the friend's bullet doesn't cost a couple of hundred billion, though...
Of course it's hard to do. Problem is, we're going to pay for installing it before we know whether it can be done at all.
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06-20-2003, 03:49 PM
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Yep, what Jim said.
Even gravity munitions go through tons of testing and problems. I'm sure you can imagine how hard it is to knock something out of the sky that is going faster than any jet could go. I am sure they got plenty of data to take back to the drawing board for reprogramming and redesign.
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06-20-2003, 03:50 PM
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Oh, come on Theo. You know those missiles don't cost that much. They have to jack up the price to shuttle money to the Stargate program, and the R&D of the alien tech from the ship that crashed in Roswell!!  | |
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06-20-2003, 03:54 PM
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Do you all suggest that we should not test our weapons? That would be very irresponsible, wouldn't it?
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06-20-2003, 04:14 PM
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No; but I suggest we not deploy them before we know whether they work.
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06-20-2003, 04:16 PM
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Far from it, Dave. In fact, I'd love to be the guy that shoots stuff at other stuff. But I needed to interject some humor, lest I lose my mind.
Well, it may be too late for that, but...
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