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Post by dpgunit on Dec 13, 2006 23:40:00 GMT -8
one day during the cold war, a young officer rushed into his superior's office in the pentagon. "we have discovered," he said, "that if both we and the russians launch our missiles at exactly the same time, their missiles would hit the united states before ours hit russia." "are our missiles slower?" his superior asked. "no, they have exactly the same power, weight and speed." "is the distance they fly shorter?" "no, both distances flown are exactly the same." what was the reason?
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Post by PhoenixFlare500 on Dec 14, 2006 9:41:24 GMT -8
The earth's rotation.
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Post by ga on Dec 14, 2006 9:48:05 GMT -8
because during the cold war, it was still the USSR. russia doesn't exist yet.
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Post by dxlightning on Dec 14, 2006 12:33:31 GMT -8
No, it's definitely the rotation.
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Post by greeny on Dec 14, 2006 18:40:29 GMT -8
Air currents.
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Post by dpgunit on Dec 14, 2006 20:13:36 GMT -8
si. and greeny, i doubt air currents would affect giant missiles with huge rocket engines much.
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Post by technohawk on Dec 14, 2006 21:05:46 GMT -8
si. and greeny, i doubt air currents would affect giant missiles with huge rocket engines much. Actually air currents would affect giant missles. Just like the air currents can slow or speed up the flight of a plane depending on it's direction. I've flown on planes dozens of times from one coast to the other. And one direction is usually 30mins to 1hr faster than the other direction. It's been a while since I've done the cross country route tho, so I forget which direction(east or west) it is that makes it faster.
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Post by dpgunit on Dec 14, 2006 21:26:08 GMT -8
si. and greeny, i doubt air currents would affect giant missiles with huge rocket engines much. Actually air currents would affect giant missles. Just like the air currents can slow or speed up the flight of a plane depending on it's direction. I've flown on planes dozens of times from one coast to the other. And one direction is usually 30mins to 1hr faster than the other direction. It's been a while since I've done the cross country route tho, so I forget which direction(east or west) it is that makes it faster. yes, but ballistic missiles go out of the atmosphere.. especially intercontinental ones, which would be the ones they would nuke each other with. and techno, they want the least wind current to make it comfortable for the passengers. sure planes can go against the current, it'll just be more turbulent.
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