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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (206925)	12/4/2001 1:31:09 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

People probably yawned when the Wright Brothers flew a few hundred feet too.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (206925)	12/4/2001 2:13:52 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Nice try... the minuteman (the "enemy missile") was launched, then the interceptor was launched. "A modified Minuteman II missile took off from Vandenberg at 9:59 p.m. EST, the Pentagon said. Instead of explosives, its warhead carried sensors to track its progress during the test. The dummy warhead also carries a large balloon to be jettisoned in an attempt to fool the interceptor - a tactic that the interceptor in this test was programmed to ignore. After 22 minutes, the interceptor missile was launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific"