1- can the US hack into north korea's icbm guidance system and send north korea's rockets back to where they came from?
2- if not, then why not?
Is North Korea Using China's Satellites to Guide Its Missiles? | The National Interest Blog
ask your representatives in congress (2 senators and 1 house representative) the two questions above. if your US congress representatives don't know if the US knows how to hack into north korea's icbm guidance system and send north korea's rockets back to where they came from, then ask them why not? the US should know how.
maybe it's because the US' ranking in STEM education (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) has fallen, and continues to fall, over the last several decades.
On the PISA math test in 2012, the U.S. average score of 481 fell below the OECD average of 494 and was lower than the scores of 21 other OECD nations. The U.S. math score was also lower than scores in several non-OECD regions/countries/economies, such as Shanghai-China, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, and Hong Kong. U.S. students demonstrated higher mathematical literacy than students in only 5 out of 34 OECD countries. The U.S. average mathematics score in 2012 was not measurably different from average scores in previous PISA assessment years with which comparisons can be made (2003, 2006, and 2009). needless to say, this is not good when north korea threatens to strike the USA with icbms armed with nuclear warheads.
if the USA's lack of competence in STEM when compared to the rest of the world is the reason why the USA doesn't know how to hack into north korea's icbm guidance system and send north korea's rockets back to where they came from, then shame on the US.
an inept federal government makes for an inept US.
Op-Ed: How to neutralize North Korea's nuclear threat without starting a world war - ABC News
my comment:
"better yet hack into n korea's missle guidance system and send their missles back to where they came from. I've read that n korea uses china's GPS satellites for their missle guidance. one would hope, that even as the US's rank in mathematics and science continues to slip in the world, that we would have the know-how to do this. if the US doesn't know how to hack into n korea's missle guidance system and send their missles back to where they came from, then shame on the US. ask your representatives in congress (2 senate and 1 house) and let them know how you feel."
it would be kinda like russian roulette (excuse the pun).
if the missile doesn't have a nuclear warhead, then when it hits the spot where it came from, then north korea wins--sort of.
if it has a nuclear warhead, then it's "thanks for playing russian roulette, north korea!"
a comment to my comment:
"That is how Iran managed to capture a super-secret RQ-170 drone intact except some slight wing damage. But this "hacking" involved real-time access to the drone's data stream. Because of massive ionization, re-entering missiles do not have that real-time data stream to hack. About the closest we could likely come would be to destabilize storage or manufacturing facilities for UDMH, a very unstable rocket fuel currently being obtained from Russia, but they are likely able to make the stuff themselves. And only SpaceX knows how to make rockets do u-turns."
my response:
"when the FBI (and presumably other resources of the US govt) couldn't hack into the San Bernardino terrorist's i-phone, the govt paid professional hackers to do so. with the US's decline in the world's ranking in mathematics and science, this may be understandable, but nonetheless, unforgivable. ... during the 1960s the US went from being behind in putting the first satellite and the first man into space to putting the first man on the moon by the end of the decade. Today the US govt can't even hack into a terrorist's i-phone. we've got a LONG way to go. with the billion$ that taxpayers shell out for private defense contractors, why not shell out a few billion more and let SpaceX, or some other private contractor, get the job done? do we really have a choice?"
Some creative ways to deal with North Korea - The Washington Post
my comment:
"perhaps the good news is that both our allies and our adversaries agree that north korea is the world's problem. this didn't happen with hitler, or either before or after. ... as a side note, it's difficult to imagine that even 25 million brainwashed north koreans can't see that kim is their, and the world's, problem, and take care of it themselves. ... in any event, if the world realizes that in today's world that it takes the rest of the world to address a world crisis, then this could be a very good thing in the future for the rest of the world."
history shows that there is no shortage of evil in the world.
history also shows that there is no shortage of people who say "it can't be done".
what's needed are good people with vision and work ethic to make it happen.
people like the Wright brothers, Edison, Einstein, etc.
science, technology, engineering, mathematics
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