{"id":192829,"date":"2009-02-16T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/16\/what-the-hell-is-going-on\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:15:00","slug":"what-the-hell-is-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/16\/what-the-hell-is-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell is Going On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img8.imageshack.us\/img8\/6863\/ali21192100il6.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/><sup>*<\/sup> Seriously, first an Iridium and a Cosmos  satellite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/12\/322420\/us-russian-satellites-collide.html\">collide in orbit<\/a> spewing debris all around the immediate vicinity, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7892294.stm\">French and British boomers (SSBNs) have collided<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img5.imageshack.us\/img5\/3827\/article114612403891aad0rc7.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>This is just weird.The  HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant, each carrying 16 missiles, and an indeterminate number of warhead struck each other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1146124\/British-French-submarines-packed-nuclear-missiles-collide-beneath-Atlantic.html\">in the middle of nowhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Not only did it occur in the open ocean, as opposed to a choke point like a port or the Straights of Gibralter, but it was two SSBNs.<\/p>\n<p>If one had been an attack submarine, I could see it, because you would have a &#8220;friendly&#8221; tracking exercise, but this is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> the task of the SSBN.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know about the story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;safe=off&amp;as_qdr=all&amp;q=elephant+leningrad+bomb&amp;btnG=Search\">Leningrad elephant<\/a>, but it&#8217;s just weird.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Tin foil hat image swiped from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/attytood\/\">Attytood<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Seriously, first an Iridium and a Cosmos satellite collide in orbit spewing debris all around the immediate vicinity, and now French and British boomers (SSBNs) have collided. This is just weird.The HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant, each carrying 16 missiles, and an indeterminate number of warhead struck each other in the middle of nowhere: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1161,1037,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-naval","category-space","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}