12-15-2009, 05:41 PM
Questioner: "But I can't see why the Russian military would confess to not just this event, but a lousy failure rate of a key strategic system, unless they're trying to lure someone else into complacency."
(sorry don't know how to do a small quote of a big post without getting all tangled up in html)
anyway....
has russia come out and say that this light sprial was their rocket? i haven't been following news coverage of this for a few days but i did notice that the wording they used on their statement about the rocket failure was very carefully constructed. they implied it was their rocket that caused this but did not explicitly say it was
as someone who lies for a living, ahem i mean as a pr professional, their statment, to me, smacked of them issuing an explanation knowing full well it was nothing to do with them - the statement was along the lines that there had been a rocket failure in the area of ???... not that the light display had been caused by the failure of a rocket in the area of etc etc...
unless they've since changed their statment and have made a clear link between the rocket and the lights?
(sorry don't know how to do a small quote of a big post without getting all tangled up in html)
anyway....
has russia come out and say that this light sprial was their rocket? i haven't been following news coverage of this for a few days but i did notice that the wording they used on their statement about the rocket failure was very carefully constructed. they implied it was their rocket that caused this but did not explicitly say it was
as someone who lies for a living, ahem i mean as a pr professional, their statment, to me, smacked of them issuing an explanation knowing full well it was nothing to do with them - the statement was along the lines that there had been a rocket failure in the area of ???... not that the light display had been caused by the failure of a rocket in the area of etc etc...
unless they've since changed their statment and have made a clear link between the rocket and the lights?