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talkpoliticsQuestion: In which country did the expression "It's not rocket science" originate?
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Date: 13/4/12 13:24 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/4/12 13:29 (UTC)How timely.
Date: 13/4/12 13:42 (UTC)I am kind of pissed at the world's reaction.
6% of our EVA flights failed, including two space shuttles. I didn't hear North Korea scream FAIL or condemn the potential for garbage to rain down upone the earth when Challenger broke up (about as good as that 'missile' the North Korean's did yesterday, BTW. Only the NK's didn't kill anyone).
The condemnation, vitrol and bully words coming from the 'worlds leaders' is NOT helping stabilize the region. They got a new kid leader. We have a chance to do something to help that situation, if it is even our fucking business to be on that peninsula.
So what's the kid going to do while the West macks on him like a 4chan n00b? What the fuck, UN? Here is a chance, and you force The Kid to do something stupid, like blow off a nuke.
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Date: 13/4/12 13:53 (UTC)so I'm not seeing him quite the block of clay, waiting to be molded...
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Date: 13/4/12 14:03 (UTC)I'm not.
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Date: 13/4/12 14:04 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 13/4/12 14:06 (UTC)Your point?
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Date: 13/4/12 14:47 (UTC)But you can't pretend that the new Kim regime is somehow going to be magically different. It isn't tabula rasa here. The guy's almost 30 years old, and he's the leader of one of the most brutal (de facto) theocracies in the world. Much as we'd like to see new ideas and a change in policy, the beligerance and stubbornness displayed by the Kim dynasty up until this point has been a required feature of their political system, something required for their own survival. I can't see Kim Jong-un changing his foreign policy too much from his dad's, because it would threaten his own hold on power internally.
That's not to say we need to be antagonizing him, but at the same time the war of words between NK and the rest of the world is nothing new. I don't see Kim Jong-un rocked back in shock, hand to forehead, proclaiming: "How DARE they say that!" and pushing the "en-nuke-erate" button. The leadership of NK may not fit the classic definition of a "rational actor", but I think they understand how much they have to lose.
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Date: 15/4/12 16:41 (UTC)Slightly tangential point: you should read "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. It's a book that chronicles the stories of several North Koreans who eventually defected to South Korea, compiled through interviews, etc, and it gives some great insights into how things are seen in that country in the eyes of the people who live there. It's really fascinating.
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Date: 13/4/12 19:00 (UTC)I'm not saying that makes building a successful 3 stage rocket easy, but it is a hell of a lot easier for NK today than it was for either the US or Russia in 1960.
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Date: 13/4/12 19:07 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14/4/12 00:28 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14/4/12 03:35 (UTC)Okay...
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Date: 14/4/12 04:21 (UTC)Okay... whatever floats your boat.
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Date: 14/4/12 05:54 (UTC)I would have used the president of Iran and his most legitimate rants against US imperialism, but I can't spell his name LOL
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Date: 14/4/12 14:18 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14/4/12 15:58 (UTC)But that is just silly ole me :D
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Date: 13/4/12 20:43 (UTC)Well to be accurate, a lot of 'our' rocket engineers were from Germany after WW 2.
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Date: 14/4/12 05:55 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 15/4/12 02:17 (UTC)http://articles.businessinsider.com/2008-08-03/tech/30052475_1_spacex-merlin-1c-omelek-island
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Date: 13/4/12 20:29 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 13/4/12 14:51 (UTC)All that wasted money could have went to feeding their people.
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Date: 14/4/12 00:43 (UTC):-X
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Date: 14/4/12 17:14 (UTC)Punishing engineers who probably weren't given the right equipment in the first place for causing NK to lose face.
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