11 thoughts on “The Space-Based Weapons Scare”

  1. I read von Braun’s fictional story about a manned flight to Mars. In the narrative, a LEO space station with nuclear bombs is the key to planetary control by a single government. Despite the discovery of intelligent life on Mars, the world government is reluctant to appropriate monies for a human mission until the threat of the Martians taking over their LEO station is raised.

    So it may very well be that the weaponization of space was foremost in von Braun’s mind, at least when he wrote the story.

  3. I liked this bit from Carol’s website:

    “Who would benefit from these space-based weapons? They are the people who work in that arena, people in the military, in industries, in universities and labs, in the intelligence community. This is not just in the United States but it is worldwide. This is a worldwide cooperative system.”

    I was kinda’ thinking you could substitute “Global Warming” for “these space-based weapons”.

  4. Yeah, let’s have a blue background with the words “truth seeker” repeated on the diagonal in white. And let’s have the text in white!

    Thankfully, Rand has learned the simple truth that black on white gets read. OK, it’s light grey backgound, but not so’s you’d notice too much.

    Thanks for that, Rand.

  5. I was reading some SDIO papers the other day on laser propulsion. They did some pretty good work when the money was flowing into defense to do stuff in space. Then one day the whole program was declared a fraud – everything that received “star wars” funding, no matter how distantly related, was considered tainted.

  6. Larry Niven had it right when he said the dinosaurs went extinct because they didn’t have a space program.

  7. You have to wonder if intelligence is such a great thing that we evolved it in the time we had. Why did not dinosaurs or any other creature given they had much more time to do it?

  9. So that explains the UFO sightings!!

    Maybe that satellite from the James Bond movie featuring North Korea (that directs sunlight into a beam… somehow) will fend off beings capable of interstellar travel and anti-gravity…

    You know, once I was in a meeting in Vienna in 1890 and they were discussing a pan-European war… that could spread all over the world to Europe’s colonies! A WORLD WAR in 1890!!!!

  11. Niven had a one word answer to that question… Thumbs

    So you don’t believe either in evolution or that increased intelligence has survival value.

    Which has better survival value: a human without thumbs or a chimp?

    If thumbs are so valuable, why wouldn’t dinosaurs evolve them?

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