The Military's "we dunno" line on the missile reminds me of Manfred Powell, clock, "Tomb Raider"

[HopeHoops]

"My ignorance amuses me".

I call bullshit.

[KCToon]

1. Mystery Missle Mystifies Military

Check out the October 23rd article on a failed laser shoot-down of a dummy missile off Point Magu, a few miles directly east of where the mystery missile was videotaped soaring skyward on Tuesday evening, November 8, 2010. The article is here:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/23/business/la-fi-airborne-laser-20101023

A 747 called the "Airborne Laser Test Bed" was unable to track the late-October missile shot and couldn't get a shot off at it.

The Airborne Laser Test Bed project is down to 250 people in this economy from a high of 1000, and $4 billion has already been spent. The L.A. Times article concerns the project's second failure; but the interesting part of the story is the following quote:

"In this budget environment, any setback to a controversial weapon system has the potential to be fatal," said Loren Thompson, a military policy analyst for the Lexington Institute, a think tank in Arlington, Va. The airborne laser "is a revolutionary weapon system … but the government is out of money and it has taken an awful long time to develop."

Is the Mystery Missile that Mystifies the Military a third failure of the Airborne Laser Test Bed? If so, is the Navy denying knowledge of the shot because, so soon after the World Series, it's on everyone's mind that 'three strikes and you're out'? Should the headline have read:

Funding Finish Feared, so Military Misleads Media Regarding Reluctant Raygun Failing to Focus on Flying Fusillade?

[MadHound]

2. My guess, somebody hacked into their missle control and launched the missile just for the hell of it

The don't want to have to admit the embarrassing fact that their IT security is faulty.

[HopeHoops]

3. Shit. I knew I shouldn't have been playing "Smash TV" with the MAME simulator yesterday.

"Oops".