On: The Iron Dome missile defense system has achieved a nearly 90% success rate

[pling]

So all you need is 10 missiles to win against the statistics?

[justizin → pling]

rockets are not missiles, fyi. less than one percent of one percent of one percent of all rockets fired into israel ever result in casualties, while at least 15 children have been killed in palestine in the past couple of days by F-16 strikes.

barbara walters, of course, showed footage of carnage in palestine under the supposition that it was in israel.

puke

[onion2k → justizin]

The problem with fighting a war based in religion and hate, on both sides, is that any rational person would stop firing rockets with odds like that.

[lostlogin → onion2k]

Are you referring to the odds of a rocket getting through to Israel, or the odds of killing Palestinian children.

[andreasvc → lostlogin]

I take him to be referring to the odds of Palestinian missiles being intercepted, and the retaliation resulting in casualties.

[sitkack → onion2k]

I am still looking for this magical "rational person." I have already found spherical ones and integrated their surface area and volumes.

[jedmeyers → justizin]

So apparently it's OK to fire rockets as long as they rarely kill someone.

[testrun → jedmeyers]

It seems so.