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Slow news day? This is not that unusual of an occurrence, and they're not always announced.
How often does this happen? Do you have sources (a long-shot, considering the fact that they're not always announced)?
Submarine and Vandenberg launches are visible a few times a year to those living Southern California.
They're visible from I-10 near the AZ border as well.
i wonder how much bandwidth is required for the administration to remain in contact with washington while abroad. it must be someones job to decide how large of a one time pad to order up from the nsa before air force one departs.
i wonder how much bandwidth is required for the administration to remain in contact with washington while abroad. it must be someones job to decide how large of a one time pad to order up from the nsa before air force one departs.
Given how cheap storage is now, I wouldn't be surprised if they just had a few thousand >4GB SD or microSD cards, each labelled with a number, and randomly chose which one to carry each time - or if they carried a bunch of them around in a briefcase. Assuming that they're using one time pads, that is.
It could also be a test of the missile shield. Like this one http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Japan_says_succeeds_in_mis...
This still amazes me. Being able to detect, aim at and strike something flying at the speed of a rocket - with another rocket - in outer freaking space. Even the patriot missiles back in the early 90's always awed me. I have trouble hitting a target in a consistent spot with a bullet from 100 yards.
First and foremost, it is being able to convince your opponent that you can do that.
i wonder how much bandwidth is required for the administration to remain in contact with washington while abroad. it must be someones job to decide how large of a one time pad to order up from the nsa before air force one departs.
I'm sure NSA can design a secure cryptosystem that does not require key material of the same length as plaintext.
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/e3gf3/a_missile_... tl;dr: We're launching a missile tonight. Stay away please. Edit: Doh. The date for this is Nov 9th, not last night. Not sure how I missed that - this isn't rocket science.
But this is for tonight , not last night when the phenomena occurred.
"Why don't use you a DateTime object for that?" "They have those?" ...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure NSA can design a secure cryptosystem that does not require key material of the same length as plaintext.
but why bother? storage is so cheap nowadays, and one-time padding is as secure as your physical security detail.
It could also be a test of the missile shield. Like this one http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Japan_says_succeeds_in_mis...
This still amazes me. Being able to detect, aim at and strike something flying at the speed of a rocket - with another rocket - in outer freaking space. Even the patriot missiles back in the early 90's always awed me. I have trouble hitting a target in a consistent spot with a bullet from 100 yards.
It could also be a test of the missile shield. Like this one http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Japan_says_succeeds_in_mis...
This still amazes me. Being able to detect, aim at and strike something flying at the speed of a rocket - with another rocket - in outer freaking space. Even the patriot missiles back in the early 90's always awed me. I have trouble hitting a target in a consistent spot with a bullet from 100 yards.