News chopper caught a missile soaring into the sky about 35 miles out to sea outside LA. Pentagon and the Feds are both stumped. They’re saying they didn’t launch anything yesterday. So, best guesses people!
Missile off the California coast, no threat to national security. I try to bring nail clippers on a plane and our nation is at risk. What if there was nail clippers on that missile!
President Merkin Muffley: How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger?
Dr. Strangelove: Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy… the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand… and completely credible and convincing.
That’s the weird thing. If the Feds/Mil wanted to have a covert launch, I can think of about a million better places on Earth where to launch it than within sight of Los Fricking Angeles.