Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by 1gor » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 5:35 AM UTC

Iran has launched a satellite into orbit
reuters.com

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by tsally » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 7:44 AM UTC

Along those lines: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487085,00.html

"North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning."

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by slater » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 10:08 AM UTC

tsally wrote: post #2

Along those lines: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487085,00.html "North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning."

Fox News? Really? On HN?

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by rsheridan6 » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 12:28 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #3

tsally wrote: post #2

Along those lines: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487085,00.html "North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning."

Fox News? Really? On HN?

You can find the same story from dozens of different outlets. The BBC says the same thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7866705.stm

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by DanielBMarkham » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 12:28 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #3

tsally wrote: post #2

Along those lines: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487085,00.html "North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning."

Fox News? Really? On HN?

Either it's news or it isn't.

This is news.

Give it a rest already.

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by josefresco » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 2:28 PM UTC

tsally wrote: post #2

Along those lines: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487085,00.html "North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning."

"although crucially it (NK) probably does not have the technology to mount a nuclear device on a long range missile"

Anyone else find that interesting?

Frankly I'm not worried about the North Koreans and their missiles. Japan might be, but I think they got it covered with enough US military tech to trounce any NK aggression.

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by josefresco » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 2:30 PM UTC

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #5

slater wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fox News? Really? On HN?

Either it's news or it isn't. This is news. Give it a rest already.

While I generally agree, it's not always the case. News networks will drum up stories like these all the time from a "report" or "undisclosed source" to push an agenda or spice up a slow news day. Just because other new orgs pick up on it doesn't make it any more of a fact, unless they're doing their own verification which sadly I don't think is done enough.

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by josefresco » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 2:33 PM UTC

Nothing in the article about US confirmation of this event.

"In August, Iran said it had put a dummy satellite into orbit with a domestically made rocket for the first time. U.S. officials said that launch had ended in failure."

Photoshop FTW?

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by rbanffy » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 4:30 PM UTC

When you have such a strict control over the press, you can announce pretty much anything. I will believe it when someone else confirms the satellite is alive and well.

Re: Iran has launched a satellite into orbit

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Post by electromagnetic » Tue, Feb 03, 2009, 5:05 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #6

tsally wrote: post #2

Along those lines: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487085,00.html "North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning."

"although crucially it (NK) probably does not have the technology to mount a nuclear device on a long range missile" Anyone else find that interesting? Frankly I'm not worried about the North Koreans and their missiles. Japan might be, but I think they got it covered with enough US military tech to trounce any NK aggression.

I'm not worried about NK and their missiles merely because launching an object into orbit does mean you can land an object anywhere on the planet. However, there's only a handful of countries that have successfully reentered objects.

There's going to be lots of time to deal with NK before anyone has to worry about a nuke being launched. The biggest worry for any country is if NK or similar rogue country produced a Davy Crockett size nuclear device. I mean a few Davy Crocketts and you could turn a Cessna into a city eradicating weapon.

IMO we don't need to be worried about 'rogue states' with nuclear weapons. I mean there was a big ideological difference between the USA and the USSR with a lot more nuclear weapons; there's possibly a bigger ideological difference between the USA and NK, but there's potentially a single nuke in the NK arsenal, IIRC the US doubted the NK test was actually a nuclear detonation and not simply a multi-tonne load of HE to fake it, so there might not even be a single nuke in NK.