• OH BOY! North Korea 'injecting fuel into rocket'
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[quote=Telegraph] [img]http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/04/08/north_korea_AP120408017032_620x350.jpg[/img] The launch, set to take place between Thursday and next Monday, has prompted neighbours such as the Philippines to re-route their air traffic just in case. Regional powers also worry it could be the prelude to another nuclear test, a pattern the hermit state set in 2009. Japan said it would shoot down the rocket if it crossed its airspace. The launch of the Unha-3 rocket, which North Korea says will merely put a weather satellite into space, breaches U.N. sanctions imposed to prevent Pyongyang from developing a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead. It coincides with the 100th birthday celebrations of the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung, whose grandson, Kim Jong-un, now rules. Kim Il-sung died in 1994. It will also follow Wednesday's annual Workers' Party Congress which is expected to appoint Kim Jong-un as Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, North Korea's top post held by his late father, Kim Jong-il. "I think the fuel injection will be completed at an appropriate date," Paek Chang-ho, head of the satellite control centre of the Korean Committee of Space Technology, told a group of foreign journalists in the North Korea capital, Pyongyang. He would not comment on when the fuel injection would be complete. "And as for the exact timing of the launch, it will be decided by my superiors", Paek said. South Korea, which remains technically at war with the North after their 1950-53 conflict ended with a truce rather than a peace treaty, warned Pyongyang it would deepen its isolation if it went ahead with the launch. Security sources in Seoul, citing satellite images, have said that North Korea, which walked out of "six-party" disarmament talks three years ago, is also preparing a third nuclear test following the launch, something it did in 2009, and a move bound to trigger further condemnation and isolation. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that history pointed to "additional provocations" from North Korea after the launch, apparently a reference to a nuclear test. "This launch will give credence to the view that North Korean leaders see improved relations with the outside world as a threat to their system," she told cadets at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. "And recent history strongly suggests that additional provocations may follow." She also called on China to do more to ensure regional stability. China, impoverished North Korea's only major ally, on Tuesday reiterated its pleas for calm and said it had "repeatedly expressed its concern and anxiety about the developments", Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told a press briefing in Beijing.[/quote] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9197074/North-Korea-injecting-fuel-into-rocket.html[/url] I bet the fuel were just fats from Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un
In other words, they lit the fuse and are running like hell.
[QUOTE=shian;35522329][url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9197074/North-Korea-injecting-fuel-into-rocket.html[/url] I bet the fuel were just fats from Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un[/QUOTE] "Japan said it would shoot down the rocket if it crossed its airspace." I love how they just throw that sentence in there. Like they feel it's important but haven't got a fucking clue how to word it with the rest of the article. It looks wacky.
One way or another this launch is going to fail. Either it's going to fuck up by it's own accord in mid-air (they will blame someone for their failure) or someones going to shoot it down. Or they will postpone the launch because it's dickwaving and nothing more.
It's going to explode on the launch platform
I bet they couldn't afford rocket fuel so they're using petrol 95 instead. :v:
Shitty puns aside, its interesting to see a isolated country despite horrendous embargo, manage to research mostly independly the required technology for a rocket that can deliver satellites into orbit, all on their own.
[QUOTE=smeismastger;35522781]Shitty puns aside, its interesting to see a isolated country despite horrendous embargo, manage to research mostly independly the required technology for a rocket that can deliver satellites into orbit, all on their own.[/QUOTE] It's funny because it's not all that advanced. Two Danes recently built a rocket that could carry a payload of 1 person into orbit. :v: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Heat_1X_Tycho_Brahe_-_lift-off_at_june_3rd%2C_2011.jpg[/IMG] Seen here: The Heat 1x Tycho Brahe, their home-designed and built rocket. They did it just as a hobby project, with the help of 20 other friends, and they paid with their own money without being particularly rich. EDIT: The tech is cheap, the fuel is the expensive part, but keeping in mind how small and light it is, I'm sure it could get into low-Earth orbit for a cheap money.
[QUOTE=mac338;35522789]It's funny because it's not all that advanced. Two Danes recently built a rocket that could carry a payload of 1 person into orbit. :v: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Heat_1X_Tycho_Brahe_-_lift-off_at_june_3rd%2C_2011.jpg[/IMG] Seen here: The Heat 1x Tycho Brahe, their home-designed and built rocket. They did it just as a hobby project, with the help of 20 other friends, and they paid with their own money without being particularly rich.[/QUOTE] They didn't also have the issue of being unable to get even the basic things in a isolated country where food is a luxury. I don't think 2 guys in nor-[B]BEST[/B] Korea can get even quarter of the things they need to build a similiar one.
[QUOTE=smeismastger;35522832]They didn't also have the issue of being unable to get even the basic things in a isolated country where food is a luxury. I don't think 2 guys in nor-[B]BEST[/B] Korea can get even quarter of the things they need to build a similiar one.[/QUOTE] North Korea probably still already got a ton of shit from China, and if I remember correctly, Iran also shared resources and ballistic missile plans with them.
I hear they powered their rocket with Tuborg and beards. And could send the payload of ONE VIKING. Spacevikings, son.
Also "hermit state". I really like that phrase, for some odd reason.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;35522931]Also "hermit state". I really like that phrase, for some odd reason.[/QUOTE] Except it makes it sound like an old wise man instead of a slave nation.
I'm getting the pop-corn. Someone get drinks and butter!
Would be interesting if it simply tipped over like badly planted fireworks and launched itself into the control building.
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;35523382]Would be interesting if it simply tipped over like badly planted fireworks and launched itself into the control building.[/QUOTE] It's hard to honestly give them any sort of credit because the Soviet Union, a gigantic, well-supplied, militarized nation had a space and rocketry program littered with disasters and tragedies despite a massive budget and some of the best scientists and military minds in the world v:v:v
[QUOTE=GlebGuy;35523271]I'm getting the pop-corn. Someone get drinks and butter![/QUOTE] Will buttermilk suffice?
[QUOTE=smeismastger;35522781]Shitty puns aside, its interesting to see a isolated country despite horrendous embargo, manage to research mostly independly the required technology for a rocket that can deliver satellites into orbit, all on their own.[/QUOTE]It's not entirely their own work; most of their missiles are pretty much just pimped out Scuds, and their Taepodong is really just a Scud, R-27 Zyb and some other missile strapped together. Most of their tech is Soviet/Russian, Chinese or Iranian; with China and Iran the only 2 countries with which they still trade with any sort of frequency. To get as far as they did even with that kind of help is fairly decent, though.
[QUOTE=spekter;35522612]One way or another this launch is going to fail. Either it's going to fuck up by it's own accord in mid-air (they will blame someone for their failure) or someones going to shoot it down. Or they will postpone the launch because it's dickwaving and nothing more.[/QUOTE] The [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-2]2009 launch[/url] went fine. Ignore the fact that they pretended it put a satellite into orbit and it was a successful missile test
I bet Kim Jung Un tried to eat the rocket.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;35523633]Will buttermilk suffice?[/QUOTE] what the fuck [it][IMG]http://blog.justpoppin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Creamy-Popcorn-Soup.jpg[/IMG][/t]
[QUOTE=smeismastger;35522781]Shitty puns aside, its interesting to see a isolated country despite horrendous embargo, manage to research mostly independly the required technology for a rocket that can deliver satellites into orbit, all on their own.[/QUOTE] They didn't, as pretty much everyone has said this thing is going to literally blow up in their face (and if it doesn't then it'll blow up in Japan's airspace).
[IMG]http://www.animationartgallery.com/images/CJL/CJLAR.jpg[/IMG] [B]Meanwhile, in North Korea[/B]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXG9-pJiIHU&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLFA4F73A14B1411D0[/media]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2UKca.jpg[/IMG] soon
North korea are like this: [video=youtube;l_232OsC4gE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_232OsC4gE[/video] They just do it anyway!
Its all a ruse. North Korea has a plan. All the citizens want to join their previous rulers in the afterlife, and so they built a nuclear bomb posing as a "peaceful satellite". At T minus 0 seconds the bomb will detonate, and all the North Koreans will have gathered around to watch the "launch". Mass cremation. No country is expecting this, not China, Iran, Japan, or the US.
[QUOTE=mac338;35522789]It's funny because it's not all that advanced. Two Danes recently built a rocket that could carry a payload of 1 person into orbit. :v: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Heat_1X_Tycho_Brahe_-_lift-off_at_june_3rd%2C_2011.jpg[/IMG] Seen here: The Heat 1x Tycho Brahe, their home-designed and built rocket. They did it just as a hobby project, with the help of 20 other friends, and they paid with their own money without being particularly rich. EDIT: The tech is cheap, the fuel is the expensive part, but keeping in mind how small and light it is, I'm sure it could get into low-Earth orbit for a cheap money.[/QUOTE] Yeah, to be fair this isn't the '50s anymore; there's loads of information freely available regarding the design and construction of rockets, and materials have gotten better and cheaper, etc. [editline]12th April 2012[/editline] Plus you can now cheaply get powerful computers to both assist you in the design, and for control of the rocket's systems.
[QUOTE=Hysteric;35530184][IMG]http://www.animationartgallery.com/images/CJL/CJLAR.jpg[/IMG] [B]Meanwhile, in North Korea[/B][/QUOTE] [img]http://puu.sh/p8hi[/img] -The rest of the World
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