• North Korea Wants Its Flag On Moon In 10 Years
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[QUOTE=Liem;50834016]Space Race V2???[/QUOTE] They will probably use V2's. Ironic that space is both for the brains and the von Braun.
So they're gonna sneak a flag on someone else's ship?
Only way I see this working out is if Best Korea changes their flag to this: [t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/nk.png[/t]
Jokes and laughs asside, I'd be interested to see what they would propose. They can barely put two satellites into a stable orbit, but they can do it. The next obvious step would be geostationary orbits which are considerably harder and require more performance out of your rockets. Then manned flights are going to require a whole host of new hardware. The interesting thing about that is reentry control. Which is also a requirement for... you guessed it. Nuclear weapon reentry vehicles. Warheads are shaped like cones for a reason.
If they can pull it off, sure. But considering the "workmanship" of their rockets, I dunno if they'd be able to land a [U]probe[/U] on the Moon by 2026, let alone cosmonauts or whatever the Korean equivalent is.
We need to fund another moon expedition just to kick over their flag.
[QUOTE=Drury;50834436]More apt title: North Korea makes up a shitty excuse for testing ICBMs.[/QUOTE] North Korea makes up excuse for somehow missing Earth.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;50835606]Seems their war on Poseidon is taking a wrong turn.[/QUOTE] They're starting a war on Zeus
[QUOTE=OvB;50836212]Jokes and laughs asside, I'd be interested to see what they would propose. They can barely put two satellites into a stable orbit, but they can do it. The next obvious step would be geostationary orbits which are considerably harder and require more performance out of your rockets. Then manned flights are going to require a whole host of new hardware. [/QUOTE] I think this is exactly the reason why they won't be able to do that any time soon. Look at China, a country with incomparably better technologies, research and industrial capabilities is still going the same way we went through in like the 70th because space technologies are vigilantly guarded, but mostly because you can't copy the experience gathered through the years of space flights. I don't know why people here keep talking about some new nebulous space race to be started by one of the most backwards countries in the civilized world, when the real space race is already happening right now with China's endeavours towards the moon/their own space station, the development of the SLS and the progress private space companies in the US have shown over the last few years.
[QUOTE=ironman17;50836285]If they can pull it off, sure. But considering the "workmanship" of their rockets, I dunno if they'd be able to land a [U]probe[/U] on the Moon by 2026, let alone cosmonauts or whatever the Korean equivalent is.[/QUOTE] Koreanauts
Why would it matter, it's gonna be white in a few years after that anyway.
my biggest fear with north korea moving into space is them taking out our GPS satellites. that would be pretty fucking devastating to not only the US but the world as well, and i don't think that NK is anywhere near as reliant on GPS systems as the rest of the world is
They judy decided that crashing rockets into the Sea of Japan isn't enough, so they're resetting their targeting priorities to the Sea of Tranquility.
Little eager there, Kimmy, you gotta get off the ground first before you go to the Moon.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;50849909]my biggest fear with north korea moving into space is them taking out our GPS satellites. that would be pretty fucking devastating to not only the US but the world as well, and i don't think that NK is anywhere near as reliant on GPS systems as the rest of the world is[/QUOTE] I though there was thousand of GPS satelites by now, surely we'd notice a drop in the signal before they'd get to them all.
[QUOTE=Tools;50850298]I though there was thousand of GPS satelites by now, surely we'd notice a drop in the signal before they'd get to them all.[/QUOTE] we have around 30 GPS satellites at the moment, i believe
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;50838523]Koreanauts[/QUOTE] Koreans are kosmonauts, so are chinese... everyone is cosmonaut, only USA has astronauts.
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