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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 05/18/2005 : 06:46:24
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The New York Times and other sources are reporting thatquote:
The U.S. Air Force 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.
In fact, according to the report,quote:
the Pentagon has already spent billions of dollars developing space weapons and preparing plans to deploy them, the newspaper said.
Doubtless the President will go along with this no questions asked.
Indeed, this sort of thing was argued for back in 2000 by the largely evil Project for the New America Century. In their report "Rebuilding America's Defenses," they argue thatquote:
In sum, the ability to preserve American military preeminence in the future will rest in increasing measure on the ability to operate in space militarilty (p. 56).
In fact, they suggest conducting tests to determine ifquote:
spece warfare is sufficiently different from combat within earth's atmosphere so as to require a spearate 'space service' (p. 64).
You know, part of me is really curious about these questions. But when it's the people in the Bush Administration who are asking for it, it really freaks me out...
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bloody_peasant
Skeptic Friend
USA
139 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 08:55:01 [Permalink]
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| The only good thing that would come out of this will be lots of useful scientific research would be done. A lot of current modern advancements have been acomplished thanks to pursuits of military advancements. Of course the world will be annihilated so it won't matter much. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2005 : 12:36:47 [Permalink]
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You know, part of me is really curious about these questions.
Yeah. Same here.
Wherever we set foot we will likely need a military, including off the planet.
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sweetmiracle
Skeptic Friend
USA
74 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 13:32:43 [Permalink]
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| Somehow, I think this is a smokescreen for something that has been in development for a while.... |
Remarkable claims require remarkable proof.
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woolytoad
Skeptic Friend
313 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 16:57:36 [Permalink]
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How does this differ from the Star Wars program back in the 80s?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 19:14:53 [Permalink]
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How does this differ from the Star Wars program back in the 80s?
The original idea, I think, was just for a system that would be able to track and destroy ballistic missiles at the top of their trajectory.
This seem a little more wide reaching.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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