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"The Air Force, saying it must secure space to protect the nation from attack, is seeking President Bush's approval of a national-security directive that could move the United States closer to fielding offensive and defensive space weapons, according to White House and Air Force officials. "
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Uh, good idea guys. With the success rate of the anti ballistic missile targeting systems, I'm sure having huge goddamn weapons in orbit is a great idea!
...we're fucked!
dammit, they're doing this when they could be making some headway on constructing a space elevator... screw these guys.
Want to read about a genuinely awesome form of defense? try a vedic defense shield.
http://www.hagelin.org/index.html (probably old news, but I only heard about it recently)
Its basically 40000 indian experts praying/chanting/etc for peace which will affect the whole world population, and to top it off its incredibly scientifically sound.
oh, and your government is actually paying for this.
You know what? We don't have teleporters yet, or flying cars, or robot cleaning ladies, or round glass houses in the air. Go ahead and get that shit going first, then you can start throwing your satellite ion cannons into space, okay? Thanks.
This does nothing to stop "dirty bombs" or other biological warfare weapons. More billions down the drain.
That's pretty wild. But, damn, are there seriously any countries out there that can match our military superiority, technologically and otherwise, right now? Maybe China, but I kind of doubt it.Not to the point that we would need 'Rods from God' to fight them with. So do Bush and these generals know something we dont about threats from space?Quote:
In April, the Air Force launched the XSS-11, an experimental microsatellite with the technical ability to disrupt other nations' military reconnaissance and communications satellites.
Another Air Force space program, nicknamed Rods From God, aims to hurl cylinders of tungsten, titanium or uranium from the edge of space to destroy targets on the ground, striking at speeds of about 7,200 miles an hour with the force of a small nuclear weapon.
A third program would bounce laser beams off mirrors hung from space satellites or huge high-altitude blimps, redirecting the lethal rays down to targets around the world. A fourth seeks to turn radio waves into weapons whose powers could range "from tap on the shoulder to toast," in the words of an Air Force plan.
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No. The story might be different in 10 years, but as of right now, China is just playing catch up (and theyre the only ones who stand a chance).Quote:
But, damn, are there seriously any countries out there that can match our military superiority, technologically and otherwise, right now?
Why don't we just stop spending billions of dollars on the killing of people in El Salvador, Vietnam, Iraq, Nicarugua, etc? Because if we did that people wouldn't hate us so much and we wouldn't have to spend even more billions of dollars to protect ourselves in such extravagant ways. When we will learn that destroying countries for the purpose of putting US businesses their to profit of their resources isn't worth it in the long run?
When will you stop reading rubbish political blogs
We haven't ever killed anyone in El Salvador, they just killed themselves while we were nearby.