A hit?

Maximum thingy speed: red button sets

Own goal!

The hippo is our friend!

Careless! Only herds of

rapidly ascending hippos - perhaps - stand between us and nuclear oblivion. Or fly between us and it. Or f...

Near miss

A miss is as good as...

No, you didn't hit it. If you use IE, look at the huge error box around the target. It's bit smaller, to scale, than the error box in the tests of the other NMD to date...

Later, a detailed summary of why you missed your intended target may appear here.

The fact that our rockets occasionally turn into hippos in mid-flight, and vice versa, gives one clue. We have no idea why it happens. Better programmers may be able to explain: but it'll take you at least several minutes to go through our pathetic 300-odd lines of code to find out. Dubya's National Missile Defense will involve tens or hundreds of millions of lines of code. The difficulty of tracking down bugs, especially in real-time systems, rises much faster than the number of lines: maybe as fast as eⁿ. Don't worry about the notation, understand the moral: people who write programs know exactly how little to trust them.

For the rest, consult:

Federation of American Scientists

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