09-04-2005 22:47									#31
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Yea, well Canada keeps wearing that outrageously short skirt, she is clearly asking for it.

	10-04-2005 00:56									#32
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo quote: geoswan: In a test of President Bush's Ballistic Missile Defense scheme, CTV is reporting that the US Space Command is planning to launch a Titan missile that will pass over the Hibernia oil field, off the coast of Newfoundland. The missile's booster will land within something like 25 kilometers of Newfoundland oil platforms. Premier Danny Williams plans to shut down and evacuate the platforms, prior to the launch, which may cost as much as $250,000,000. The test was delayed last week, and some reports said that the delay was due to sensitivity to Canadian concerns. However this is incorrect. A television report quoted an American military spokesman claiming the chance of debris striking an oil platform is "one in a trillion". To put the matter in perspective, the AdScam storm in a bucket is over $250 million Canadian. WTF can we do? I can't think of anything short of arresting every American in this country and executing them one by one until Bush is deposed, and that seems a tad unreasonable. Communal punishment and all. ****.

so 2 days worth of trade should cover that.

	10-04-2005 02:09									#33
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I can't be arsed to read the whole thread. Has anyone pointed out that $250mill canadian is only about £4.50? So who cares?

	10-04-2005 02:22									#34
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What is a Canada? I've never heard of it.

	10-04-2005 02:27									#35
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quote: Originally posted by spartak I can't be arsed to read the whole thread. Has anyone pointed out that $250mill canadian is only about �4.50? So who cares?

As of 2005.04.09 21:25:15 UTC:

quote: 250,000,000.00 CAD = 204,532,440.01 USD 1 CAD = 0.818130 USD 1 USD = 1.22230 CAD

	10-04-2005 02:31									#36
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Remind me to introduce you to a sense of humour next time he is passing.

	10-04-2005 02:33									#37
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Oh, I got the joke. It just wasn't that funny, so I decided to put the poor thing out of its misery.

	10-04-2005 02:34									#38
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Thanks.

	10-04-2005 02:35									#39
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quote: Originally posted by MRT144 OH NOES! i just think that the voluntary evactuation shouldnt be blamed on americans, because youre overly cautious.

I'd have to agree. "OMG it will be with in 25 KM!!11!11!"

	10-04-2005 02:47									#40
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Try living down wind from Baikonour.

	10-04-2005 03:00									#41
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A Soviet era space launch sight in Kazakstan?

	10-04-2005 03:19									#42
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own goal. Its still being used by the Russians. Lots a space junk around it.

	10-04-2005 03:21									#43
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse Put a surcharge of 1$ a barrel on all oil exports to the US. In 4 months we'll have collected that 250 million back.

Why don't we put a surcharge of $250 million on all Canadian students attending American medical schools?

	10-04-2005 03:25									#44
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He's a physics student, Oerdin.

	10-04-2005 03:27									#45
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Who's the Canadian going to medical school then?

	10-04-2005 03:28									#46
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I don't think there is one. KH goes to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore*, but he's a grad student getting his PhD (or is it Masters?) in physics.

*don't they have a campus in DC, too?

	10-04-2005 03:30									#47
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OK, we can put the surcharge on Physics students then.

	10-04-2005 04:18									#48
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Be grateful! This time we're trying to miss...



The alternative would be firing a missile into Mexico and that's just unacceptable.

	10-04-2005 04:38									#49
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It's hard for the yanks to piss me off enough to side with all the canucks.

But this takes the cake!

Why don't the Americans launch their 'classified' payload over American airspace?

	10-04-2005 04:50									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker I don't think there is one. KH goes to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore*, but he's a grad student getting his PhD (or is it Masters?) in physics. *don't they have a campus in DC, too?

PhD

I think he would already have his masters if he wanted it

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	10-04-2005 05:00									#51
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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi It's hard for the yanks to piss me off enough to side with all the canucks. But this takes the cake! Why don't the Americans launch their 'classified' payload over American airspace?

Cause they need to go near Canada to get it where they need it?

What, you thought they could fire it straight up and then call a cab to move it over where it's supposed to go?

It's an odd time I might agree with PH, but his comment about shutting down London because of the planes flying overhead seems pretty reasonable.

	10-04-2005 05:01									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi It's hard for the yanks to piss me off enough to side with all the canucks. But this takes the cake! Why don't the Americans launch their 'classified' payload over American airspace?

Um...because polar orbital insertions require aiming towards the poles?

edit: dammit, nye...

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Planes are one thing.

Missiles with a 'classified' payload quite another.

People accept the risk posed by planes, because of why they are used, to transport people from one place to another.

Please show me what need there is to fire this particular missile at the North Pole?

quote: What, you thought they could fire it straight up and then call a cab to move it over where it's supposed to go?

	10-04-2005 05:27									#54
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quote: polar orbit Military polar orbit (DOD) A satellite orbit in which the satellite passes over the North and South poles on each orbit, and eventually passes over all points on the earth. The angle of inclination between the equator and a polar orbit is 90 degrees. US Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Words, 2003

quote: Wikipedia polar orbit A satellite in a polar orbit passes above or nearly above both poles of the planet (or other celestial body) on each revolution. It therefore has an inclination of (or very close to) 90 degrees to the equator. Since the satellite has a fixed orbital plane perpendicular to the planet's rotation, it will pass over a region with a different longitude on each of its orbits. Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping-, earth observation- and reconnaissance satellites, as well as some weather satellites. To face one polar area a large part of the time, albeit at a large distance, an elliptic orbit with a high eccentricity with apogee above that area, is applied: a Molniya orbit. This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

http://www.answers.com/topic/polar-orbit

I think the reason should be easy to see.

	10-04-2005 05:33									#55
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Yeah, but why over the North Pole?

And if this is just a weather satellite, than I'm sure the US wouldn't mind releasing the contents of their 'classified' payload?

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Also, this brings to mind what happened when Canadians in Afghanistan were shot down by an American pilot.

Did we ever recieve proper compensation and acknowledgement that wrong had been done?

The US doesn't care a whit about Canadians, and this missile proves it.

	10-04-2005 05:42									#57
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If it's classified, I doubt it's a weather satelite.

It's more than likely a missle detection satelite going into a Molniya obit covering some region of the far north, since most ICBMs aimed at us would take such a route.

	10-04-2005 05:45									#58
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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi Missiles with a 'classified' payload quite another... ... Yeah, but why over the North Pole?

Because they've been firing these things up there for the last 40 years?

A little late to be getting our panties in bunches.

	10-04-2005 05:46									#59
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And how many times, have such missiles dropped stages on Canada?

	10-04-2005 05:47									#60
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That's classified.