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If it is a missile, then clearly a group of people with a boat should go and recover whatever it is. Since the military denies that they own it, then it seems t
by tibbon 16y ago
If it is a missile, then clearly a group of people with a boat should go and recover whatever it is. Since the military denies that they own it, then it seems to be abandoned property.
Surely someone would be interested in buying the remains of it for the technology.
Since the military doesn't own it, then they can't really say anything about you selling/reverse engineering/posting online abandoned property that's probably sitting in international waters now can they?
Either that, or the military is caught in a lie to the American people.
I know if I see what looks to be an ICBM over my city, I'm headed for the closest fallout shelter and assuming the worst. Anyone putting up faux-ICBMs over major cities is clearly causing terrorism, as in causing terror, uncertainty and fear among the public by not explaining and warning them.
- metageek 16y ago>Surely someone would be interested in buying the remains of it for the technology. ...unless it, say, exploded. Personally, I wouldn't want to pick up an unexploded missile anyway; there'd be no way to know whether it didn't explode because it doesn't have a warhead, or just hasn't exploded yet.
- tibbon 16y agoI'd really hope that (if it was the US Military) that they wouldn't shoot live weaponry like that on US territory. Sounds like a great lawsuit- although not one that I'd want the damages (death, harm) originally from.
- nickpinkston 16y agoActually, that happens all the time. There are many live fire ranges for planes, artillery, etc. scattered across the US. No reason the Navy wouldn't light a few off from a sub.
- Pyrodogg 16y agoThere isn't a reason that the military can't test weaponry, they just usually do it in quarantined areas or with notice to the public.
- nickpinkston 16y agoHaha - tell that to my uncle who got buzzed by an F16 in his Cessna outside the live fire zone ;-)
- roedog 16y agoThis is why they usually fire the self-destruct ordnance on spent stages so it's not floating in the ocean. I imagine likewise for anything they want kept secret. Self-destruct or flight termination systems are required by the missile ranges.
- JabavuAdams 16y ago> Since the military doesn't own it, then they can't really say anything about you selling/reverse engineering/posting online abandoned property that's probably sitting in international waters now can they? This is so wrong. Look up "ITAR". If you're a US citizen, the State Department can have your ass. If you're not a US citizen, well then, the options could be grimmer.
- tibbon 16y agoHmm, that's mainly to do with import/export though right? If its sitting in international waters (which it may or may not be) then that isn't you exporting it from the US. In fact, they sent the weapon outside the US themselves. Also, maybe you wouldn't sell it outside of the US, but inside. Wouldn't stopping me from just even simply owning this infringe my right to bear (massive) arms? :)
- jonhendry 16y ago"If it is a missile, then clearly a group of people with a boat should go and recover whatever it is." How is anyone going to know where it went down?
- jimm 16y agoScience!