Jericho Notes:

[jeffreyab]

Anyone else watch the show and have thoughts about the following points?

Spoiler Alert:



Jericho is in big trouble if they have to rebuild without the Internet because they just lost most of their public library.

Western Kansas has ICBM sites? There are sites in Western Nebraska to the north of the hypothetical site of Jericho.

The Oriental TV map has Atlanta, Denver, New York, Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth with targets on them.

Jake seems to have been pretty busy for five years, how do you get that much training in that little time and a passport and get on a watch list?

Jake's background from Wikipedia:

So far the show has shed little light on Jake's background, and when asked he provided different answers, which may or may not be true. However, he has displayed some surprising and remarkable abilities such as performing an emergency tracheotomy, and is shown to be very knowledgable about mechanical devices (such as a ventilation system and a flight recorder) and explosives. Jake is also shown to be accurate with a revolver at a distance, shooting an escaped prisoner dead from many yards away. He is also shown wearing dog tags after showering. In episode 5, Robert Hawkins looks up Jake on the Department of State database and finds that he has visited several South American countries and that his passport is tagged:

Country Date Entered Date Exited Duration

Honduras 8/11/03 8/21/03 10 days
Mexico 9/22/03 10/02/03 11 days

Colombia 4/22/04 4/29/04 7 days
Venezuela 5/18/04 6/3/04 15 days

Qatar 7/13/04 7/25/04 12 days

Colombia 8/11/04 8/21/04 10 days
Peru 10/1/04 10/9/04 7 days
Guatemala 11/5/04 12/2/04 27 days

He was returning to San Diego which is near both the Navy SEAL training facility and Camp Pendleton a major US Marine base.

Comments

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

It's a TV show, man.

These days I have to exercise the suspension-of-disbelief muscle every time I turn the TV on, even for the news channels.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I know its a show, but it also a mystery that may be solvable, but then this IS TV, maybe not.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

That's my point; it is TV, and so it doesn't pay to think too hard about what goes into each episode. I think the scriptwriters more or less make it up as they go along. Betcha by Christmas someone will wake up and find it was all a government-sponsored virtual reality show, or it was a dream the boyfriend had in the shower, Or Something.

[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

Of course there's the missile silo near Smallville ;), though I that's in eastern Kansas.

Depending on where "Jericho" is, Space Command has a lot of facilities in northeastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska.

To my knowledge, active missile sites are classified (or at least they are hard to Google), but there have always been rumors about missile silos in central and western Kansas.


I partly agree with the other commenter, except my suspension-of-disbelief muscle isn't quite this flexible. ;)

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Try looking up Space Command in Wikipedia, that's where I found my info.

They do not give exact locations, just which parts of which states.

[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

The Wikipedia page has the same information as on the Air Force Space Command web page. It only lists the location of Space Command bases, which only contain command elements. The AFSPC web site says "In addition, many geographically separated units span the globe." That means they aren't telling us where the missile silos are.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

The 90th Space Wing employs approximately 3,361 military members and 964 civilian employees. Family members of assigned military members add another approximately 5,445 to the local population. Also, some 5,000 military retirees reside in the area.

The Minuteman III missiles are deployed over a 12,600-square mile area in three states: eastern Wyoming, [western Nebraska] and northern Colorado. They are dispersed in hardened silos to protect against attack and connected to 15 underground launch control centers through a system of hardened cables. Launch crews consisting of two officers perform around-the-clock alert in the centers. A variety of communication systems provide the president and secretary of defense with highly reliable, virtually instantaneous and direct contact with each launch crew.