Ah fuckin' great: They're gonna start orbiting nukes now

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Or at least, overtly orbiting nukes.

"The United States will preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space... and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to US national interests," it says.

Yay! Can we have some "Spies Likes Us"/"Real Genius" space lasers too?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Also, when any news headline uses the word, "tough," feel free to replace it with "paranoid" and/or "pathological"

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Space Command was all about this already.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.afspc.af.mil/shared/media/ggallery/hires/AFG-060316-003.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

This can only end well.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

George S. and Elvis T. to thread, in any event.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Oops. Can some mod please fix the spelling of the thread title?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

shore

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

This is old news.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsLj2ScRkFo

― Sir Lance A Zit (Dick Butkus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

This is an update of the Clinton-era 1996 National Space Policy document, only now with extra unilateralism. To translate:

- Attention China: If you zap anymore of our spy satellites, do not be surprised if we zap back
- Attention Aerospace Industry: Prepare for lots of government contracts
- Attention Everyone: We're going to claim territory on the moon, Mars, etc. for the USA

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, now that they can actually make it to the moon!

― Sir Lance A Zit (Dick Butkus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Huh, I recall during the Reagan years talk of anti-satellite weapons, ours and Russkis. One of ours was alleged to be deployable from F-15 at very high altitude which indicates little need for putting an atomic bomb into orbit. One might imagine the Blackbird could also easily have had some capability in this regard. By now it should be apparent the US military has the ability to do attempt quite a few things with small charges and hurtling metal. For example, the space shuttle has -- over the years -- been involved in military missions.

See this recent item from Steve Aftergood's Secrecy Bulletin on stealth satellites.

Even if it's not quite accurate, or even half so, a lot of things are implied to the imaginative.

― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I hope nothing goes wrong with these orbiting peace stations.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Are they now going to pre-emptively bomb every possible launch site?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Bush Administration to defend the frontier against Kim and the Jong-Il armada.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

then again

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news666.article.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Good christ, I was thinking of that movie the other day too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

needed a sequel.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

What part of "last" don't you understand?

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

The Penultimate Starfighter would not have been much of a box-office draw.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

oh hush, pedant.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Didn't the soviet union have a first strike plan when they'd orbit over a polar orbit and then they'd hit the usa from the south?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Probably. I just remember that they had targeted my hometown of Flint, MI, so Michael Moore went over there on an ep of TV Nation to try to get them to point the missiles away from flint, like towards Grand Rapids or something.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

One of ours was alleged to be deployable from F-15 at very high altitude which indicates little need for putting an atomic bomb into orbit.

The Pegasus launcher does this now.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

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