Is this part of Missile Defense?

but we still will protect our northern neighbor as your country welcomes deserters seems thats a great way to keep strong

You have made yourself perfectly clear. We know your opinion of the US. You have not been prevented from saying it.

If you were old enough to have been around when the A-Bombs were dropped, you were also old enough to know that there were military forces from other countries that were fighting in the Pacific. Many of them were forced into death marches, slave labor, barbaric executions, and "medical" experiments.

If you were old enough you remember the invasion of China, and the slaughter of innocents. You could remember that a group of American pilots formed the Flying Tigers to try to help save at least some Chinese lives.

You could also remember that committing suicide was the choice of the enemy rather than surrender. And that young men of the enemy felt honored to crash their planes onto our ships. IMO, there is a difference is being willing to die for your country than in willing to die for the Emperor, who was viewed as a god, not a Head of State.

So please restrain your venomous comments.

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but with so many posters coming on here with so little regard for so many men working our oil rigs i get a littles pissed.
They make remarks without knowing the facts.Its not if the rocket fails, its the boosters that are sure to fall and your government says it will fall 15 miles from the oil rigs.This is cutting it a little to close and my government would shut down the rigs and unman them if given time.thier regard for life outweights any money that would be lost,which would be millions.
Shouldnt we be given notice in time to do something about this?Ok are you also one that say to hell with them they are not american??
Now shouldnt your government have given us a warning

... here is privy to all official communications between our respective governmental agencies.

Have your officials alerted the oil rigs? Or are they waiting for the US to issue one?

I know our off-shore rigs have evacuation plans in place for approaching streoms.

What bugs me is that you choose to assume that the US will do anything regardless of the lives of others that are not our own.

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with that old whine?

the usa saves the day go help your queen she needs help

Lets save this post for the next time Rob denies that anyone here hates Americans. The statement that Americans have no concern for human life outside the US is vile bigotry.

This is not about the rockets guidance system.

This is about gravity and the booster rocket that is jettisoned from the main body of the rocket.

There is no control of where the booster lands. And I doubt that there is any control of the rocket after it leaves the launch pad.

Other than being able to destroy the rocket if it goes off course.

They can control the satelite after it is in space, but not the rocket in earth's atmosphere.

something falling out of the sky and whether or not it's likely to hit something on the ground. Doesn't matter what the cause of the thing falling is. That's all.

If you had wife and kids in a house and the government told you that the rocket booters were going to fall within 15 miles of your home would you all stay in house and hope for the best?
The weather has a lot to do with things just falling and 15 MILES.Think about it>

that it would fall on my house, yes.

Would you live near a highway? The chance that and 18-wheeler will come barreling through your living room is much better than one in a trillion. Live near an airport? A nuclear power plant? Earthquake fault?
Mudslide area? Flood zone?

But reacting hysterically is perhaps excusable. People used to think an eclipse meant the end of the world was happening.

If there was a one in a trillion chance.
The biggest crock I ever heard.
I live near an airport and have'nt a care in the world about being hit by falling objects or missles falling on me.
If I was told a rocket was going to drop boosters that they have no control over and could hit within 15 miles of where I was I would sure get the hell out of there.
You would also your just playing mr. tough guy.
Just where do you get your 1 in a trillion chance in a case like that.So many replies from people who dont get the facts,dont understand or just dont give a dam.

The scientists were quoted as saying it was a trillion to one chance. I didn't make it up. Maybe they are lying. Maybe it's a conspiracy!

You live near an airport? Do you have any idea how often objects fall from airliners taking off? It's not uncommon. And of course every so often the whole plane comes down in a neighborhood.

Not playing tough; exercising common sense.

Masao Doi, a spokesman for U.S. Air Force Space Command ...said the command compiles extensive safety risk calculations on all trajectories and devises an impact safety "box"...nside that box, the chance of personal injury from impact is one in a million, Doi said. Outside the box, he said, there is a one-in-a-trillion chance of impact.

"The Hibernia platform is one mile outside the impact box,"

By all means, get the facts before posting.

second schedule for Wed Apr 13 now Sun Apr 17

Three technical delays in two weeks, but they know "exactly" where the booster will land.

U.S. air force delays rocket launch

U.S. air force officers have again delayed the launch of a surveillance satellite that has been cause for concern among Canadian politicians and oil companies. For unspecified "technical reasons, the Americans have postponed the firing of the rocket until April 17," said Alex Swann, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan.

The U.S. officers announced the decision to Canadian federal and provincial officials, as well as oil executives, at a meeting Saturday in Dartmouth, N.S.

There are concerns that pieces of space junk from the rocket could damage drilling rigs in waters off Newfoundland.

The Hibernia platform is one mile outside the impact box,"

When I was in the miltary, they wouldn't let anyone stand downrange, of somebody that was shooting a weapon, even if the impact box (target) was 20 or 40 feet away. (not that I would stand there)

Why's that? A bullet is more controlled than a booster rocket tumbling out of the sky.

Perhaps because accidents happen.

Yes, read the story. Please.

Three technical delays in two weeks, but they know "exactly" where the booster will land.

Where exactly do they say "exactly?"

The Air Force gave a risk assessment. The risk is miniscule, almost nonexistent. This is the very definition of a non-issue. And yet politicians are panicking and blowing millions of dollars because of it. And we know who they will be blaming for that loss.

The risk is miniscule, almost nonexistent.

one in a million, and one in a billion or trillion(not sure which term they used and I'm not going to look it up)

All these terms mean that they know "exactly".

Perhaps I should say they know "exactly" where it won't land. (on the oil rig)

Reply if you want, to but I'm not responding any more on this subject until after the launch or another re-schedule of the launch.

yelling the sky is falling

post a link to the Shuttle explosion over Texas

O.K. then, let's consider the odds of a hit on a specific taget in those terms of probability.
Instead of a specific oil rig, let's substitute a specific building in that path. What are the odds of a of a space shuttle breaking up and having a piece of it hit the Dallas City Hall?

a Canadian shuttle takes courage to explore outer space
so as to your comment about our astronaughts shows your crudeness.

YOU should not make remarks about "the sky is falling", "got your hard hat on" and "Duck and run" as YOU should realize that accidents do happen, and objects do fall out of the sky sometimes with very serious consequences.

as your the one whining about it not me.

so if your that concerned watch the sky as then you can run and hide

There was no reason to bring it up in the first place. It's a non-issue.

...nail right on the head.

"So many replies from people who dont get the facts,dont understand or just dont give a dam."

...And you're one of them

As somebody mentioned the odds I just had to check to get an idea of the object in question. A SRM booster module of that rocket in 10 feet x 113 feet. "Worst case senario" would be for a booster to hit broadside (110 feet facing surface).
Then it hit me, I dare say that various aircraft overfly that platform all the time (what a handy known navigation "fix") and aircraft big enough to go that far out would tend to be bigger than 10 feet x 113 feet. But I can't remember seeing a "hoo-rah" about the danger of a hit if one of them lost control and came down. But of course a lot of those aircraft would not be U.S. aircraft, so that would mess up the criticize the U.S. routine.

It's possible, but not likely, an aircraft would fall out of the sky.

It's definite that the booster rocket WILL fall out of the sky.