NoSpotOfGround

That was magnificent...

They're made that way so you don't accidentally connect a gas cylinder to a water line.

In the "Fantasy" section.

Off topic, but that's Audiodollar - "Powerful Metalcore"

Surprisingly good song for a stock tune.

Yes, I imagine they'd use the Arrow 3, and the US Navy could probably help out with SM3s if they were instructed to intervene.

They're saying ballistic missiles, not cruise missiles though. Those are too fast and too vertical to be intercepted with aircraft.

Simon Sebastian - Into The Atmosphere

Yeah, I mean getting the parents to sign an explicit contract and taking a photo of them signing... They were aiming to do the right thing.

You can't use triangulation for anything over a few light-years, the angles are just too acute. And even then, you need to use the full width of Earth's orbit (i.e. repeat a measurement at different times of the year).

I think they just know what the frequency distribution normally is for a burst like this when it is emitted, and use the redshift of the measured frequencies to estimate the distance. Plus they correlate it with the apparent source based on direction (a certain galaxy, in this case, which helped confirm the distance estimate).

You know what you did.

There is such a thing as Sun-synchronous polar orbits (an example).

Dread it, run from it...