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> What supernatural being descended on earth and gave governments the supreme right to own the path from earth into space. 'Listen. Strange supernatural beings

> What supernatural being descended on earth and gave governments the supreme right to own the path from earth into space. 'Listen. Strange supernatural beings descending on earth is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses...' > OK, so, if you could launch from a ship in the middle of the ocean you would be free to launch as you wish? Couldn't that possibly be mistaken by countries around the world as an icbm launch. Given that danger, I'm pretty sure no private company would be allowed to launch rockets without government approval. But I'm just guessing.

justinclift 3y ago
> Couldn't that possibly be mistaken by countries around the world as an icbm launch [?] "Col Sanders, we've just detected an icbm launch from the middle of the pacific ocean!" "Who launched it?" "Err... no idea". <-- probably the important point ;) At which point these theoretical observers would probably be trying to get some kind of visual on the object, plus likely trajectory, etc. Barring some really unfortunately co-incidents / accidents, they'd hopefully realise it's not an icbm.
- Thlom 3y ago
  In 1995 a scientific sub-orbital rocket was launched from Andøya in Norway. It got a little bit out of planned course and for some reason the message informing the Russians about the launch had not reached the radar controllers which just saw a rocket heading for Russia on their screens. It was total chaos and the nuclear briefcase were brought to Jeltsin. Luckily the rocket fell in the ocean after a few minutes and nuclear war was averted.
  - justinclift 3y ago
    Interesting anecdote, but doesn't seem like it really fits the situation of "launched from the middle of an ocean". :)
    - op00to 3y ago
      Uh, you are aware that one leg of the nuclear triad are submarine launched ICBMs. That's about as "launched from the middle of an ocean" with no idea who launched it as you can get. That would exactly look like an ICBM launch at first.
      - justinclift 3y ago
        Heh. Yeah, didn't even occur to me before you wrote that. Oops. :D
        op00to 3y ago
        Sorry I was a little harsh! Not everyone thinks too much about submarines.
        justinclift 3y ago
        It's no worries. Sub launched stuff isn't something I should have forgotten about anyway. :)

justinclift 3y ago

> Couldn't that possibly be mistaken by countries around the world as an icbm launch [?] "Col Sanders, we've just detected an icbm launch from the middle of the pacific ocean!" "Who launched it?" "Err... no idea". <-- probably the important point ;) At which point these theoretical observers would probably be trying to get some kind of visual on the object, plus likely trajectory, etc. Barring some really unfortunately co-incidents / accidents, they'd hopefully realise it's not an icbm.

Thlom 3y ago
In 1995 a scientific sub-orbital rocket was launched from Andøya in Norway. It got a little bit out of planned course and for some reason the message informing the Russians about the launch had not reached the radar controllers which just saw a rocket heading for Russia on their screens. It was total chaos and the nuclear briefcase were brought to Jeltsin. Luckily the rocket fell in the ocean after a few minutes and nuclear war was averted.
- justinclift 3y ago
  Interesting anecdote, but doesn't seem like it really fits the situation of "launched from the middle of an ocean". :)
  - op00to 3y ago
    Uh, you are aware that one leg of the nuclear triad are submarine launched ICBMs. That's about as "launched from the middle of an ocean" with no idea who launched it as you can get. That would exactly look like an ICBM launch at first.
    - justinclift 3y ago
      Heh. Yeah, didn't even occur to me before you wrote that. Oops. :D
      - op00to 3y ago
        Sorry I was a little harsh! Not everyone thinks too much about submarines.
        justinclift 3y ago
        It's no worries. Sub launched stuff isn't something I should have forgotten about anyway. :)