Space ain't gonna be Antartica

[woodchip]

As stars sparkled in the heavens so did the plasma cannon:

"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

"We haven't reached the point of strafing and bombing from space," Pete Teets, who stepped down last month as the acting secretary of the Air Force, told a space warfare symposium last year. "Nonetheless, we are thinking about those possibilities."


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[Will Robinson]

I'm surprised we haven't been doing more in this arena.

[roid]

meh, i'm surprised you didn't know you WERE doing a lot in this arena.

all this very real work on hypersonic engines, plasma shielding (etcetcetc), it takes just as flick of the wrist to sign the technology over to make the world's greatest superbomber. so powerful it could vapourise a building just with it's WAKE (i'm serious, plasma shielding babeh, harnessed air friction's most impressive trick yet: sheilding you from air itself by enveloping the entire craft within a standing wave/cone of plasma)

amature astronomers spot "undeclared" artificial satelites all the time. they are military, you may find it a little scary to know that not all of them are american.

all i want is a satelite with a camera on it, so i can see the laser wars action pchew! pchew!

[Robo]

"The Air Force, saying it must secure space to protect the nation..

Secure = own?

I don't like the idea of this. The guns should be kept down here inside nations, not in a "neutral zone" (please excuse the Star Trek pun). Whats next? Millions of flags flying around the Earth to declare space property of a certain country?

It should be like Antarctica, no question.

[Top Gun]

I'm in full agreement with Robo on this one. We should continue to foster the international cooperation in space exploration that has been developed over the last few decades, not turn it into another Cold War situation. I want my GTA, damn it!

[Robo]

not turn it into another Cold War situation

And thats exactly where it will all lead..

[Gooberman]

We better hurry before Al Qaeda beats us to it.

[Cuda68-2]

We better hurry before Al Qaeda beats us to it.

No worries there. They would use it to treat there hemmaroids from hiding under all those rocks.