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Originally Posted by charleskieffner
since living where i do and doing what i did..........i have gotten to see quite a few miss-kill launches in my time.
NOTHING I MEAN NOTHING ASIDE FROM NAPALM AND THE SMELL OF RACE FUEL IS COOLER THAN A MISS-KILL LAUNCH!
where i live i get to witness vandenburg ICBM's go down range to atolls in s.pacific. also get to watch white sands miss-kill launches to the east of me from my yard.
when being an aerospaced squid in my past life selling aerospaced machine tools and being the road warrior from hell, one of my accts was white sands miss-kill range.
alot of times coming from hotel in las cruces we would be stopped on top of organ mtns while launch in progress.
too many times to count, and too many cool launches from elevation looking down on horizontal launch. ie. ground to ground.
wayyyyy coooool stuff as long as yer not some allah akbar terrorist! then it gets ugly fast!
i really hope this works. prime reason from my satellite friends is that this spy satellite has some super duper secret decoder rings on board and would be very risky if any of our enemies were to capture any of the secret decoder rings. like all of our present day sat tech is wrapped up into this one super sized super duper decoder ring satellite. ie. this was a GIANT FUCH UP from the moment it ceased to be a viable happy spy satellite.
plus blowing the crap out of this will serve warning to the chinese and russians we got game too! which i never ever doubted.
GO NAVY!
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Wow, lots of common history. My dad and grandfather both worked at white sands, and both lived in Las Cruces. Dad was born in Roswell so we used to make that drive across the organ mountains all the time to visit the other set of grands.
He later went to work at Morton thyocol (sp?), then Hercules in Utah, then retired from Reinhold industries in So Cal. When I was a little kid we'd go out to the firing range and watch launches and test-fires of rockets he helped design and build.