Haha, North Korean rocket crashes and burns within one minute of takeoff

[Chefguy]

When this first hit the news, I told my wife: “North Korea doesn’t have that kind of sophistication. Even if they have fuel for the tanks, it will self-destruct after liftoff.”

Wow. I’m a prophet.

[Marley23]

So yesterday was not the best day for North Korea.

[iiandyiiii]

@Chefguy

When this first hit the news, I told my wife: “North Korea doesn’t have that kind of sophistication. Even if they have fuel for the tanks, it will self-destruct after liftoff.”

Wow. I’m a prophet.

I said the same thing to my wife. Turns out, they don’t call it rocket science for nothing.

[Tom_Tildrum]

Laughter aside, one possible response for NK to this embarrassment would be to do something even more aggressive and scary.

[carnivorousplant]

@iiandyiiii

they don’t call it rocket science for nothing.

Probably the last words of several NK scientists and engineers today.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

@Tom_Tildrum

Laughter aside, one possible response for NK to this embarrassment would be to do something even more aggressive and scary.

They’re going to launch two rockets?

[Zebra]

I wonder if the entire population has to now cry for the failed rocket?

[XT]

[QUOTE=The Other Waldo Pepper]
They’re going to launch two rockets?
[/QUOTE]

Or, maybe another nuclear ‘test’ detonation like, IIRC, the last time they launched a rocket like this. Or, perhaps they will ‘accidentally’ sink another SK warship or something dippy like that.

-XT

[Jackmannii]

@VinylTurnip

In other news, the entire staff of North Korea’s aerospace program is enjoying an all-expenses-paid vacation in an undisclosed location and could not be reached for comment.

“Once the rockets go up
Who cares where they come down
That’s not my department…”

[Kozmik]

@R.P.McMurphy

Yea, I saw that picture. And if you were alive for the early space launches, manned and unmanned, and saw the control rooms, it was easy to see that the place looks pretty primitive. I think that was the point of the picture. North Korea’s rocket program has been an abysmal failure but you have to protect against the scenario of them getting lucky, especially when Iran is helping out. The NK reaction will be interesting. I wonder if those dittoheads (Rush Limbaugh types) in NK are crying, banging their heads against the concrete and screaming out in total sorrow over the loss of their precious rocket.

It would be laughable except for the sad truth that their resources are going to these kind of fiascoes instead of feeding their people.

Turns out the North Korea rocket FAIL was not newsworthy enought to make the front page of The New York Times. It was reported on page A12.

Still, I can just see one of the North Korean technicians with a distressed look on his face, staring at the monitor, saying, “Rocket suppose to go up. Rocket suppose to go up.”

[VinylTurnip]

I just learned from Mitt Romney that the rocket launch is Obama’s fault. Not the failure, of course; that’s courtesy of God, I guess. But the *real *God, not the one Obama prays to.

[R.P.McMurphy]

@Kozmik

Turns out the North Korea rocket FAIL was not newsworthy enought to make the front page of The New York Times. It was reported on page A12.

Still, I can just see one of the North Korean technicians with a distressed look on his face, staring at the monitor, saying, “Rocket suppose to go up. Rocket suppose to go up.”

Certainly at that time the NY Times had gone to press. There’s probably nothing in the earliest editions. They probably were able to insert something in the later editions. It’s a prominent story on Times Reader and the electronic edition.

[Marley23]

@Kozmik

Turns out the North Korea rocket FAIL was not newsworthy enought to make the front page of The New York Times. It was reported on page A12.

@R.P.McMurphy

Certainly at that time the NY Times had gone to press. There’s probably nothing in the earliest editions. They probably were able to insert something in the later editions. It’s a prominent story on Times Reader and the electronic edition.

Right, it’s the most prominently features story on their website now.

[Sailboat]

@Marley23

So yesterday was not the best day for North Korea.

Wow, that’s surreal. Especially the last two paragraphs.

[El_Kabong]

[Quote=voltaire]
To deliver thermonuclear warheads onto key cities such as New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Austin, New Orleans, and Jacksonville.
[/Quote]

Once again, Houston gets no respect.

[Kozmik]

@R.P.McMurphy

Certainly at that time the NY Times had gone to press. There’s probably nothing in the earliest editions. They probably were able to insert something in the later editions. It’s a prominent story on Times Reader and the electronic edition.

I read the National Edition this morning, Friday, April 13, 2012 (Friday the 13th), and there are two stories about the 2012 election on the front page - one about campaign fundraising and another about the comments by Hilary Rosen about Ann Romney. There is also a photograph of George Zimmerman being charged on the front page. No picture of any North Korean control room like on yesterday’s front page. It wasn’t too early for a story (and photograph) to be on yesterday’s front page about the North Korean rocket launch.

@Marley23

Right, it’s the most prominently features story on their website now.

The North Korean rocket launch was featured prominently in yesterday’s print/electonic edition and on the website; however, the North Korean rocket FAIL is only featured prominently on the website, and they already had the story but the editors decided to put it on page A13 in the print/electronic edition. My guess is the editors decided to have the rocket launch on print/electronic/website/ect. and then when it happened (FAIL) they made the decision to not put it on the front page. What’s on the website now is the “fallout” from the launch and the FAIL.

[Voyager]

@Jackmannii

“Once the rockets go up
Who cares where they come down
That’s not my department…”

I aimed for the stars - but hit the launchpad.

[billfish678]

@El_Kabong

Once again, Houston gets no respect.

You might even say they have a problem.

[Musicat]

@Marley23

So yesterday was not the best day for North Korea.

But, maybe, as the article suggests, things are opening up. They didn’t close the curtains, confiscate the cameras or wipe the minds of the journalists.

[El_Kabong]

@billfish678

You might even say they have a problem.

Heh. Being left out of a North Korean nuclear strike, I should have such problems…