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Re: Noisy neighbors to the north acting up again. o,0

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:36 pm

Tigger wrote:@FBM, this might seem silly to say, but can't you just leave the place?
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Gawdzilla wrote:
Tigger wrote:@FBM, this might seem silly to say, but can't you just leave the place?
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@ Tigg: Yeah, I could leave, but...then I'd miss the war! If I survived, I'd have some great stories to tell!!! :awesome: Just think of the photo ops!!
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FBM wrote:
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Tigger wrote:@FBM, this might seem silly to say, but can't you just leave the place?
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@ Tigg: Yeah, I could leave, but...then I'd miss the war! If I survived, I'd have some great stories to tell!!! :awesome: Just think of the photo ops!!
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Post by FBM » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:08 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Tigger wrote:@FBM, this might seem silly to say, but can't you just leave the place?
LBFMs.
:shifty:

@ Tigg: Yeah, I could leave, but...then I'd miss the war! If I survived, I'd have some great stories to tell!!! :awesome: Just think of the photo ops!!
"If any of us survive this, stop by my place in a year or two and we'll swap lies. You're buyin', by the way."
I'll be a refugee at that point. Not sure how much beer I'll be able to buy...
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:11 pm

FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Tigger wrote:@FBM, this might seem silly to say, but can't you just leave the place?
LBFMs.
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@ Tigg: Yeah, I could leave, but...then I'd miss the war! If I survived, I'd have some great stories to tell!!! :awesome: Just think of the photo ops!!
"If any of us survive this, stop by my place in a year or two and we'll swap lies. You're buyin', by the way."
I'll be a refugee at that point. Not sure how much beer I'll be able to buy...
You can get out of buying if you can replace the lighting on the deck. :tup:
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Post by FBM » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:12 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:You can get out of buying if you can replace the lighting on the deck. :tup:
I'll probably glow in the dark at that point, so no problem. I'll just stand there. :smoke:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:22 pm

FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:You can get out of buying if you can replace the lighting on the deck. :tup:
I'll probably glow in the dark at that point, so no problem. I'll just stand there. :smoke:
If you don't we could still wrap you ropes and dip you in pitch, like the Romans did.
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Post by FBM » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:24 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:You can get out of buying if you can replace the lighting on the deck. :tup:
I'll probably glow in the dark at that point, so no problem. I'll just stand there. :smoke:
If you don't we could still wrap you ropes and dip you in pitch, like the Romans did.
The Romans never did that to me. That was a vicious rumor.
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Post by FBM » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:33 pm

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Post by Ian » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:13 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:They just admitted they don't have a delivery system for nukes. :hehe:
Say what now?

I kinda doubt their nukes are so bulky they can't get one onto one of their missiles. Most of these would do:
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Nevermind South Korea and Japan - the one on the right could hit the US, possibly even the east coast. What's more questionable is how powerful their fission bombs are. The one they tested in 2006 was, compared to even the Hiroshima bomb, damn weak.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:15 pm

Okay, they don't have a reliable delivery system.
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Post by FBM » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:19 pm

Ian, from what I've read, the technology required to make a nuke small enough to put on a missile is considerably more difficult than what it takes to simply make a bang, and they've only make a couple of small bangs so far...which is why I suspect that those bangs may have been of the backpack variety. The estimations of their TNT tonnage are eerily similar, don't you think?
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Re: Noisy neighbors to the north acting up again. o,0

Post by Ian » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:24 pm

FBM wrote:Ian, from what I've read, the technology required to make a nuke small enough to put on a missile is considerably more difficult than what it takes to simply make a bang, and they've only make a couple of small bangs so far...which is why I suspect that those bangs may have been of the backpack variety. The estimations of their TNT tonnage are eerily similar, don't you think?
Yes, and it's a particularly disturbing thought. The North might have obsolete air power and missiles of some questionable reliability, but one thing they can do great is infiltrate commandos into South Korea. Tones of practice at that.

(BTW - The article that missiles picture came from says the TD-2's max range barely scrapes Alaska. That's actually old information. Newer versions have been worked on, but that picture was the first nice image I found to illustrate my point.)

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Post by FBM » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:27 pm

Ian wrote:
FBM wrote:Ian, from what I've read, the technology required to make a nuke small enough to put on a missile is considerably more difficult than what it takes to simply make a bang, and they've only make a couple of small bangs so far...which is why I suspect that those bangs may have been of the backpack variety. The estimations of their TNT tonnage are eerily similar, don't you think?
Yes, and it's a particularly disturbing thought. The North might have obsolete air power and missiles of some questionable reliability, but one thing they can do great is infiltrate commandos into South Korea. Tones of practice at that.
No shit. I got here in June of '96. September, all kinds of shit broke loose wrt NK commandos...
(BTW - The article that missiles picture came from says the TD-2's max range barely scrapes Alaska. That's actually old information. Newer versions have been worked on, but that picture was the first nice image I found to illustrate my point.)
They barely got one to go far enough to land in water, tho. :hehe:
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