"Austin! Watch your skies!" Topic

You have been weighed by Supreme Leader and have been found wanting. link

Luckily I have determined Great Hall is relatively safe. Using the NukeMap nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap and selecting the University of Texas as the most likely target (Mack didn't offer lil Kim), GHG should be just outside of the 10kt blast radius.

What a maroon. Could you imagine playing a game of Diplomacy with Dear Leader?

Here in the Austin suburbs, we are all puzzled.

Why would North Korea nuke an ally?

Interesting choice of targets

So in retaliation, I have aimed my bb gun at North Korea. Of course, like them, while my weapon can be aimed in their direction, its range may be a bit short.

Btw, Lucius is right, I always thought Austin was a hotbed of socialist agitators.

That was a joke you know.

GHG – check
Place of worK – check
Place of residence – check
State legislature – check

Judging by their demonstrated lack of skill at anything other than bluster and starvation, I would think one of the safer places anywhere is wherever K-Fat and the Loon Crew are pointing.

The high school I attended was situated in the center of a triangle formed by 3 major contractors making stuff for the USAF, with a couple of others in close proximity.

This was in the long, long ago when we had air raid and "duck and cover" drills in case the Bad Guys decided to nuke L.A.

I refused to participate in the drills. When asked for a reason I said that if the Bad Guys could send a nuke here they'd target the school and wipe out all the contractors with one missile, rather than trying to hit each one individually and that I'd prefer to be vaporized sitting in my chair instead of hiding under the desk.

Many other students decided mine was a good idea and refused to participate further.

And off to the Principal's office I went…

highlandcatfrog: LOL! I remember finding a manual for Civil Defense, growing up in my parents' house, and it specified that my hometown, affectionately referred to today as, "Spam-Town USA" (Austin, MN USA, home of Hormel meat processing company), was categorized as a third-tier target for our then-enemy, the USSR (70's cold war era).

I joked with my friends, growing up, that I planned to sit in a lawnchair, and watch the vapor trails of the nuclear warheads coming in. Same justification: better to be vaporized on the lawn, than to die horribly, days/weeks later, of radiation poisoning, or starvation. Go, Doomsday Prep'ers!!!

"Nothing to see here, Citizens. Move along! Move along!" ;-)

I honestly suspect that at least part of why I got in trouble was that the "powers that be" at the school hadn't realized that sitting less than 1/2 mile from Rocketdyne might mean Bad Things Happening in an exchange of nukes.

Then again, many of my school experiences end with "And off to the Principal's office I went…"

I lived near Tinker AFB in Oklahoma. We were on the first strike list. Now I live just outside of Washington DC. I like being first.