The Christian Science Monitor offered a link to”the Worst Space Weapons Concepts Ever.”
The link connets to Space.com’s “Top Ten” pages, which has the “Top Ten Space Weapons.”
Sounds liek a bit of false advertising on CSM’s part, but the Space.com writer’s do try to titillate:
Weapons in space may seem like science fiction, but they’ve been creeping [...]
Jeremy Hsu writes in the Christian Science Monitor :
The X-37B, A U.S. Air Force space raises concerns about weapons in space. While its exact purpose remains unclear, it joins a host of new space technology that could usher in a new era of space warfare.
This is from Tom Burghardt, a “researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.” He has a pretty interesting article in the Pacific Free Press.
It’s not as if things aren’t bad enough right here on planet earth. What with multiple wars and occupations, an accelerating economic meltdown, corporate malfeasance and environmental catastrophes such [...]
The 2010 version of the Schriever Wargame series–Schriever X, which is actually the sixth iteration, but I quibble–is on, and I am present with uberprofessor Mike Pavelec. Fabulous Las Vegas will have to wait, because this game is for real.
Look for my after action report in a couple of weeks:
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – The Space [...]
Now we are really getting things out of context. Really? Iran is Spooked?
From Asia Times, “US Robotic Shuttle Spooks Iran.”
USAF Deputy Undersecretary for Space Programs, Gary Payton, played down any speculation that the X37B is a test platform that could have any weapons applications. See the full response first reported in the Christian Science Monitor.
Methinks he doth protest too much.
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to comment on the upcoming launch of the USAF’s super-secret X-37B Space Plane.
First reported by Leonard Davies in Space News, it was picked up by MSNBC :
The USAF has entered the 21st Century! After prohibiting access to all social networking and personal sites (for security reasons, mind you, not to keep tabs on the good folks who defend the country and could, in theory, while away the drearier hours playing games and looking for a date), a few days ago the upper [...]