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U.S. Building new nukes [message #137123] Tue, 08 February 2005 19:42 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Stop splitting hairs...You know I didn't mean literally exactly 5 seconds...I meant if it exploded or malfunctioned a few thousand feet off the ground versus exploding high in the air.

Most rockets are not launched "straight up"...once they leave the pad they go at a determined pitch, and even if something goes straight up, and explodes, the debris doesnt came falling straight down in an orderly pile.

Take a look at this mapping of where the shuttle debris fell...would you want those zones to be death zones and uninhabitable for the next 100 years?

http://www.sfasu.edu/pubaffairs/Feb2003/Shuttle-debris-path_l.jpg
 
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