I don't own the West Wing. I just think it's class. Go buy the DVD box set. Don't give Bezos your money though.
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@untexan2 ай бұрын
In the words of Lord John Marbury, it could have missed by 37 fewer miles and it would have still have missed by 100 miles
@ironsideeve29552 ай бұрын
Less*
@PaperbackWizard2 ай бұрын
It could have been 136 miles closer and would still have missed it by a mile.
@scotthockenberry3085 Жыл бұрын
“Leo were you born at the age of 55?” 😂
@jeremybaumeister215 Жыл бұрын
"I know there's a dog." 😂😂
@OhNoNotAgain42 Жыл бұрын
That was a very funny line when the show first came out. It’s hasn’t aged well. Mostly because I’m now 55.
@HeronAct-uj4sp2 ай бұрын
That transfer to the Airforce did wonders for Tackleberry’s career.
@fishbone33332 ай бұрын
You beat me to this comment by two days, dammit.
@snbforever2 ай бұрын
@@fishbone3333Missed it by that much 🤏😂
@joemckim1183Ай бұрын
@@fishbone3333 At least Tackleberry is still in charge of weapons. Too bad his aim has gotten worse since he was at Police Academy.
@uncommon_niagara1581Ай бұрын
Leo failed a USAF reliability test so badly that a fellow airman pulled a gun on him. It helped set in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to a hamburger almost ending the world. Ferris Bueller saved the day. Leo eventually ended up WHCoS by failing upwards apparently.
@Remncliff2 ай бұрын
"and it is going to hit my garage in new hampshire exactly when" Seen this episode 1000 times, I still bust a gut laughing everytime Bartlett says that line.
@davidgunter4226 Жыл бұрын
“ oh, and the word you’re looking for, are good grief.”
@bgdancer100Ай бұрын
"There's a coupla three-star generals in there; call them Lucy and you're on your own."
@paulino8472 Жыл бұрын
"Sarcasm: the grumpy mans' wit..." 😂
@maestrotownsend8833Ай бұрын
*wish
@hanscombe722 ай бұрын
“I can’t make you Thailand’s ambassador because I just signed that guy’s letter.”
@DeusExMJ12 Жыл бұрын
"Sharpen a pencil, would ya."
@p0pp42 ай бұрын
As someone who had family working on "The Star Wars Defense" back in the 80's I can say that these programs eventually bore some fruit. Mostly all the spinoff technologies. I was told by one of the ones working on the megawatt lasers that "Lasers are an amazing tool! You could image individual bolts on the space shuttle from the ground. But as weapons they're not very good. There are many more effective ways to do the same job with conventional weapons."
@petemccutchen32662 ай бұрын
Israel’s Iron Dome is a working missile defense system, albeit one that intercepts much slower missiles. We have a working system now that would probably take out two or three North Korean or Iranian missiles. So missile defense has borne fruit. Could we build one capable of intercepting several thousand missiles? Maybe, maybe not. As for lasers, there is some possibility that pulse lasers might do the trick. But it’s still on the drawing board.
@jfallas2 ай бұрын
It seems supersonic missiles rendered this completely useless. Chalmers Johnson also pointed out that any Third World nation, including North Korea, could send a rocket into space loaded with gravel and explode it. The debris would render all satellites useless and make it impossible to launch new ones, rendering us unable to explore space. It would be a barbaric crime, but one that any nation contemplating its demise might be tempted to do.
@traceythomas67612 ай бұрын
@@jfallas Missiles have been supersonic for decades. You may be thinking hypersonic, but only two countries have that expensive technology and even those have been demonstrably shot down recently in Ukraine. And the gravel example is much harder that described. The space above Earth is big, to paraphrase Douglas Adams. Bigger than the surface of the Earth. There are already tens of thousands of tracked trash items in low-earth orbit. The Chinese and US anti-sat missions last decade added more than 30000 items of debris alone. And satellites continue to function there. It would take masses of gravel the weight of city blocks to become truly problemmatic, launched from thousands of rockets at great effort at huge $ a pound. In fact, Brilliant Pebbles was one of the intercept concepts 40 years ago, but it conceptually involved opening a bag of BB's right in the specific path of a ballistic missile. But knowing the path and hoping the dispersal of tiny objects crossed the trajectory to knick the target was more risky than just calculating and smacking into it with a big slug to vaporize it.
@petemccutchen32662 ай бұрын
@@jfallas Patriot missiles have been shooting down Russian hypersonic missiles. There's no question that missile defense is hard, but it is by no means technologically impossible. As for the "load of gravel" attack, Chalmers Johnson studied economics, political science, and East Asian studies; I take his estimates of plausible technology with a grain of salt. In this case, he underestimates the volume of space. Do you have any idea of how many rockets filled with gravel you'd have to launch to make near Earth Orbit unusable?
@bmyers70782 ай бұрын
Kessler syndrome/effect ?
@snbforever2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, they will never make anything this good, ever again 😢
@PaperbackWizard2 ай бұрын
Ya know, I'd never considered the whole football thing to be satire before I saw this episode. I always thought it was just a funny joke, but he's right, it's pretty good commentary on a lot of things.
@michaelrchan Жыл бұрын
There is nothing the Mrs, Langingham, Leo, or Jed say that is not comic gold.
@KuDastardly Жыл бұрын
"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Secretary, the missiles are flying... Hallelujah, hallelujah".
@rupertbrookeedson10 ай бұрын
This joke is right on target... landed as expected right in the dead zone.
@Grubnar2 ай бұрын
"I understood that reference." - Captain America
@beersteinsteve4690 Жыл бұрын
Give tackleberry more time he will get that missile.
@rockon412 ай бұрын
"It was just enthusiastic"
@SpartanSniper3Ай бұрын
They really shouldn't have been hyping this tech up until it had been perfected but we've really come a LOOOOONG way with this capability.
@vinayakshankhdhar1432 Жыл бұрын
We missed it by 137 feet, miles, gosh that was one hell of a joke for anyone who an understanding ADS's😂😂😂
@MIGBMWLOVER5 ай бұрын
tackleberry became a colonel of the us air force?
@charlesmugumya4473Ай бұрын
"Sharpen a pencil would ya"? 😂
@Palpatine0012 ай бұрын
Defending against Theatre Class missiles is one thing, they were doing it in WWII with the V1 ironically Defending against Strategics? They couldn't blast down the V2 so the other side targeted their launch sites to stop the launches in the first place.... and why ICBMs target other ICBMs sites... Also yes THAAD and GMD are here today 25 years later hopefully not missing by 137 miles when some 300 SATAN IIs come flying over the North Pole (let alone how many SLBMs off the coasts that the Fast Attack subs missed (in hitting the missile boats)?) Oh and still favourite scene in all of West Wing all because Leo's over optimism got Jed's garage nuked - again
@joemckim1183Ай бұрын
The distance from Los Angles, CA to San Diego, CA is 128 miles, the missle missed its target 9 miles farther then that distance. I typed a bunch of different cities into Google Maps until I finally found 2 cities that would vaguely match up to 137 miles.
@BBoC10 ай бұрын
Wait...was that Tackleberry doing the explanation?
@Bill-iz3odАй бұрын
That's Tackelberry
@brandonrains5602 Жыл бұрын
And it has worked...
@Shadi2 Жыл бұрын
back in the day, missile defense was politicized because it was seen as a "republican" project. So left leaning media loved to poke fun at it as a waste of money.
@Gromit8012 ай бұрын
They don’t launch FROM Kawajilein, they launch from CA TOWARDS Kawajalien.
@dand3953 Жыл бұрын
Missile intercept systems were improving steadily to a 98 percentile ... until hypersonics came along. Now? Charlie Brown gets his ass blown off every time.
@davidmeyer6401 Жыл бұрын
Nuclear ICBM's always were hypersonic. Nothing new there.
@jmurphy6011 Жыл бұрын
We need Ukrainians to figure it out. They are fucking wrecking Russia with Patriots, doing shit our guys said can't be done.
@nutsackmania Жыл бұрын
Yeah this is a dumb comment. Plus, hypersonic glide vehicles are 60s tech.
@dand3953 Жыл бұрын
@@nutsackmania ... and nuclear bombs are '40's tech. What didn't exist in the '60s is super-computers and AI. Also, the fuel systems for '60s hypersonics were not terribly stable. The list goes on, but effective hypersonics were SF until the computers and metallurgy along with polymers, etc., made them much more effective. So yeah, it existed in the '60s, but the science was still incomplete.
@Egilhelmson11 ай бұрын
Patriot batteries have been hitting Russian hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, a high percentage of the time. Lucy is too slow at yanking the football, any more.
@pedroiarules3 ай бұрын
Is Leo really such an erudite that he is unfamiliar with the ‘Lucy and the football’ parable? Jeez.
@MalakianM2S2 ай бұрын
Those aren't exclusive, don't let your anti-intellectualism shine.
@varianschirmer93752 ай бұрын
Leo does the crossword puzzles & wants Margaret to call the newspaper when they misspelled Gaddafi as an answer. He has a daughter... who at some point was a child. He's never thumbed thru the comics section of the paper?
@craigcox13099 ай бұрын
Glad he wasn’t president when the Patriot and subsequent Iron Dome systems were being developed.
@McRocket2 ай бұрын
Patriot is/was NOT effective. In fact, if you read the data and not just believe what you are told, the kill rate was awful. And Iron Dome has only gone up against very simple and crude missiles. No chance these systems could reliably take out incoming warheads that had decoys and/or altered their trajectories in flight. ✌️
@cconnors2 ай бұрын
Ballistic missiles lobbed from across a border or the next state over aren't quite the same speed or difficulty as ICBMs.
@giannisdrou1199Ай бұрын
@@cconnorslet me mention the THAD
@jasonsessler53832 ай бұрын
And yet the Patriot keeps shooting down ballistic missiles.
@McRocket2 ай бұрын
No, it doesn't. In fact, the kill/success rate of the Patriot was/is astoundingly low. When will people learn to stop blindly believing what the government/MSM tells them? ✌️
@DavidPruitt2 ай бұрын
Instead of healthcare we can miss a space bound ICBM that only a couple of countries are capable of launching by 137 miles. WIN!
@bakerhitch5856Ай бұрын
If you go to usaspending.gov and go to agency breakdown you might be surprised to find that the U.S. defense budget is smaller than the Department of Health by a pretty notable margin.
@johnmonrow9981Ай бұрын
Instead of financing Columbus, Spain could have provided healthcare to 100 people 400 years ago.
@alexpomorski963428 күн бұрын
Missile defence technology has come a long way since the early 2000s. GMD has demonstrated intercepting targets in space and now they use salvos of several interceptors for a single incoming warhead.
@traceythomas67612 ай бұрын
This didn't age well. NMD has had many multiple successful intercepts. Apollo had early failures too.
@itsatrap72152 ай бұрын
It's a show with a comedic scene, not real life criticism.
@traceythomas67612 ай бұрын
The whole show was about making political commentary. Of course it was criticizing missile defense. Did you listen to the dialogue? They were gaslighting that missile intercepts were a waste of money.
@bobwinters55722 ай бұрын
At the point the episode aired, reasonably reliable missile defense was about 15 years away. Not that long really given the difficulty of the problem, though at the time it was already 15 years since Reagan's "Star Wars" so it wasn't unreasonable to think the problem was insoluble.
@traceythomas67612 ай бұрын
@@bobwinters5572Successful repeated ballistic intercepts were happening with the cited program (NMD, later GMD) as early as 2005, only 4 years after this episode. There were aggressive disclaimers who staked their professional careers stating it would never work, spouting things like "it was physically impossible to hit a bullet with a bullet", trying to get the program defunded. Until they did it, again and again - another just this year with a complex target. There have been launch failures, but few "misses." And scaled down versions were created from it with great success. But the concept was made fun of just like this: derided as impossible, until it wasn't.
@shuttlecrossing14332 ай бұрын
@@traceythomas6761 Yep. Hitting bullets with bullets has always been physically possible, it's just been out of the scope of our capabilities for most of human history. We spent decades on it, and now we can do it. This episode aired nearly 25 years ago. That's a long time to figure out how to do something important.
@voicification2 ай бұрын
In 2024 the ridicule is misplaced
@johnkloosterman62772 ай бұрын
The reason why Leo is so excited about missile defense, and the reason why Bartlett, frankly, is an idiot to dismiss it so cavalierly, is because Leo is old enough to remember the Cold War, and aware enough to realize that America's state of security is a very very thin illusion without some sort of way of defending against missiles. Bartlett just treats the whole thing as a joke because it's hard for him to think of missiles as a real danger. Leo remembers when it was, and has hope that one day the government can give a better assurance of safety than: "well, the other guy'd have to be crazy to try it."
@woodrobin2 ай бұрын
Bartlett is old enough to remember the Cold War. He was canoniocally born in the mid-1940s. He would have been a child and young adult during the Cold War and spent most of his adult life under the constant specter of potential nuclear war. Make whatever point you feel like making, but don't pretend you know jack squat about the show or the characters while you're doing it when it took me less than ten seconds of googling to find out you're full of shit.
@cl0udbear2 ай бұрын
Leo is a few years younger than Jed.
@phillipgathright80012 ай бұрын
No, it is that Leo is the Catholic in this instance, and Jed is the atheist. Jed would like proof that something is going to work someday and Leo is the true believer who only needs faith. 🙄
@johnkloosterman62772 ай бұрын
@@phillipgathright8001 ?? Jed is the one who has a "talk" with God in the National Cathedral after Landingham's death, who knows the secret of the "shibboleth" verse in the Bible and uses it to determine the Chinese refugees are in fact Christian, he has a heartfelt conversation with Vinnick after it's revealed Vinnick is an atheist where he describes himself as a "New Testament kind of guy."
@phillipgathright80012 ай бұрын
@johnkloosterman6277 Wow, dude. Totally missed my point. I said, "in this instance," referring to the scene in the Situation Room. Leo is the true believer in the missle defense system, and Jed is definitely not.
@DaWon-cb4nb2 ай бұрын
Military intelligence is still an oxymoron.
@johnmonrow9981Ай бұрын
Yeah. Can you believe they actually accused Russia of planning to invade Ukraine? Insane.
@McRocketАй бұрын
Anyone who thinks missile defense is a good idea? Has no idea what they are talking about on the subject. It is virtually impossible to perfect (in our life time - if ever). And it makes both America and the world a far more dangerous place. And BTW, despite what the MSM and the MIC tells you. America cannot at present, shoot down advanced ballistic missiles (except with nuclear-tipped ABMs). And that does not even include incoming missiles with decoys and/or ones that can alter their trajectory. Heck, 'Iron Dome' barely shot down a bunch of incredibly crude, Iranian missiles. And even then - they did not get them all. ☮