North Korea

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@vaportrail said:

This is kind of making me nervous. I'm going to Okinawa next month... On an island with 20 US military bases on it that's being looked at by a desperate bunch of assholes with inaccurate missiles.

I was stationed on Okinawa for 2.5 years. What are you going there for? I haven't been there since 1987 so I'm sure it's changed quite a bit. I still have two retired Navy friends who live/work their for the USMC as civilians.

[heckofajobbrownie]

I wonder what they can hit. I don't suspect it's much but Seoul, but who knows what kind of missile technology they've been getting.

Usually this stuff is just bluster for domestic political reasons. And the new Kim supposedly doesn't have the support of the military. Maybe this is just more of the same. Except that we usually don't move stealth bombers, warships, fighter jets, and missile defense batteries for more of the same.

[VaporTrail]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

I was stationed on Okinawa for 2.5 years. What are you going there for? I haven't been there since 1987 so I'm sure it's changed quite a bit. I still have two retired Navy friends who live/work their for the USMC as civilians.

For science.

[VaporTrail]

@heckofajobbrownie said:

I wonder what they can hit. I don't suspect it's much but Seoul, but who knows what kind of missile technology they've been getting.

Usually this stuff is just bluster for domestic political reasons. And the new Kim supposedly doesn't have the support of the military. Maybe this is just more of the same. Except that we usually don't move stealth bombers, warships, fighter jets, and missile defense batteries for more of the same.

Found this on BBC

[heckofajobbrownie]

Yeah, there's one of those that says they can reach the western US too.

I don't know what they can hit though. I suspect (based on nothing) if they tried to fire at Hawaii it'd land in the ocean somewhere.

[blowe]

@kosar_for_president said:

I would have to agree here, because this time China has the goods to kick our ass.

Link

What China could do is invade the homeland. They would suffer massive casualties from both our military and civilian population (you know, because we are allowed to have semi-automatic assault rifles with 30 round clips as civilians. Fuckin awesome, right?), but I don't think the leaders of China really care what kind of casualties they suffer, which makes them very dangerous. In the end I believe we would win in a war with China, but it would be brutal on both sides.

[VaporTrail]

@blowe said:

What China could do is invade the homeland. They would suffer massive casualties from both our military and civilian population (you know, because we are allowed to have semi-automatic assault rifles with 30 round clips as civilians. Fuckin awesome, right?), but I don't think the leaders of China really care what kind of casualties they suffer, which makes them very dangerous. In the end I believe we would win in a war with China, but it would be brutal on both sides.

China's never going to invade us and we're never going to invade China. There are too many guns here and too many people over there.

[Kosar_For_President]

@vaportrail said:

For science.

What exactly Vap, just curious. To learn the crane technique?

[VaporTrail]

@kosar_for_president said:

What exactly Vap, just curious. To learn the crane technique?

I'm speaking at a conference out there to present my research. All expenses paid!

[heckofajobbrownie]

Please tell me the name of your research paper has a colon in it.

"Re-imagining Proust: A History Without Loss."

Must. Have. Colon.

[The Cysko Kid]

@vaportrail said:

I'm speaking at a conference out there to present my research. All expenses paid!

He never says what sort of scientific venture he's involved in. There's one of two reasons for that.

1. Less likely, but possible, its highly classified by the government or in some other way secret.

Or

2. Much more likely since he's a college student, he's not telling you the truth.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@the-cysko-kid said:

He never says what sort of scientific venture he's involved in. There's one of two reasons for that.

1. Less likely, but possible, its highly classified by the government or in some other way secret.

Or

2. Much more likely since he's a college student, he's not telling you the truth.

1. Highly unlikely since he is a college student.

2. I doubt that, he seems like a good kid. Probably some educational seminar. Look up Okinawa conferences 2013. Not that many.

[heckofajobbrownie]

You're both wrong. He's a Freemason.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@heckofajobbrownie said:

You're both wrong. He's a Freemason.

One of the young future leaders of the world. Conspiring with the lizards.

[VaporTrail]

@heckofajobbrownie said:

Please tell me the name of your research paper has a colon in it.

"Re-imagining Proust: A History Without Loss."

Must. Have. Colon.

"Chess, Checkers, Russian Roulette: These are games millions of people play every day.

@the-cysko-kid said:

He never says what sort of scientific venture he's involved in. There's one of two reasons for that.

1. Less likely, but possible, its highly classified by the government or in some other way secret.

Or

2. Much more likely since he's a college student, he's not telling you the truth.

Actually none of the above. My work's unclassified, but I'd rather keep the shit I say on here away from my professional life. If you know what to look for, you can find me.

[The Cysko Kid]

@vaportrail said:

"Chess, Checkers, Russian Roulette: These are games millions of people play every day.

Actually none of the above. My work's unclassified, but I'd rather keep the shit I say on here away from my professional life. If you know what to look for, you can find me.

If you know what to look for you can find anyone. I'm not sure what you're worried about. Some scientist you know finding out you actually have opinions about stuff? We all know youre a whack job. In some way all us bb political board regulars are.

[Legacy Fan]

@the-cysko-kid said:

We all know youre a whack job. In some way all us bb political board regulars are.

We root for a perennially shitty football team like enthusiastic bandwagoner Alzheimer's patients. Of course there is something wrong with us.

[VaporTrail]

@the-cysko-kid said:

If you know what to look for you can find anyone. I'm not sure what you're worried about. Some scientist you know finding out you actually have opinions about stuff? We all know youre a whack job. In some way all us bb political board regulars are.

I'm not disputing that I'm a weirdo, I know that I am. I'm worried about the professional schools that I'm trying to get in. I know of a student this year who was offered a seat, accepted, made a sexist comment on some forum, the adcom found out about it and rescinded his offer. I don't exactly worry about being politically correct on this forum, so I'd like to keep these identities separate.

[The Cysko Kid]

@legacy-fan said:

We root for a perennially shitty football team like enthusiastic bandwagoner Alzheimer's patients. Of course there is something wrong with us.

[heckofajobbrownie]

@vaportrail said:

I'm not disputing that I'm a weirdo, I know that I am. I'm worried about the professional schools that I'm trying to get in. I know of a student this year who was offered a seat, accepted, made a sexist comment on some forum, the adcom found out about it and rescinded his offer. I don't exactly worry about being politically correct on this forum, so I'd like to keep these identities separate.

Completely understandable.