Funk Babblings

I forgot to mention this a couple days ago, though you may have seen it in the news. NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain underground war room facility is being retired, in favor of a nearby Air Force base.

What makes this news noteworthy to me is this bit:

Until the later years of the Cold War, when more accurate and high-yield bombs were developed, Cheyenne Mountain could probably have even withstood a direct hit....

Keating said the new control room, in contrast, could be damaged if a terrorist commandeered a jumbo jet and somehow knew exactly where to crash it. But "how unlikely is that? We think very," Keating said.

Yeah, nothing like that has ever happened before, right?

Not that I have an opinion on whether the ultimate security decision is a good one, but at least the assumptions presented here seem a bit off.