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Tell me, because I'm curious: what do you think will happen if the missiles are fired and hit their target? Will the target somehow vanish into thin air? If not
by vilya 14y ago
Tell me, because I'm curious: what do you think will happen if the missiles are fired and hit their target? Will the target somehow vanish into thin air? If not, where do you think the pieces of it will go?
Yes that's a sarcastic tone I'm taking. I live in London and the thought of missiles being deployed around my city frightens me a great deal more than the vague possibility of a terrorist attack.
- mseebach 14y agoAnd what might such a target be? As a comment on the article says: > The real damage comes from the thing you're trying to shoot down; all the missile is going to do is to prevent a lunatic from hitting a stadium, by making it have a near-miss. If that means scores die when a plane hits a tower block, instead of thousands dying when it hits the opening ceremony or 100m final, then it's done it's job. Now, that doesn't make it any less security theatre, the main component of which is announcing the presence of the missiles loudly, but Stross' article is still pure FUD.