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michael
on from the tungsten-rods-dropped-from-500-miles-up dept.
anzha writes "Space.com is running an article on a RANDstudy about space based weapons and their potential effects on wars on more solid ground. Fascinating stuff."
In the basement at Rand headquarters
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Hard_Code
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· Score: 3, Funny
Eric: *puff* so here we are again guys Fez: Hey hey, let's play that game...joo know...where we think about ways to annihilate ourselves from space! *puff* Kelso: Yeah! Annihilation! Cool! *puff* Hyde: *puff* Ok - check this out - what if we like put LASERS up on satellites, and like, shoot people from space. Like in Star Wars! Eric: Haha yeah! *puff* No no wait - what if we just toss junk down and let the kinetic energy gained through falling through earth's atmosphere yeild an inexpensive but highly destructive bomb! Kelso: Like bowling balls! Fez: Well, guys, what if we just divert asteroids that are already up there? You know not *all* of us have money for expensive space programs. Eric: *puff* But...wait...what if something happens to our satellites? Hyde: *puff* Like anti-satellites? Fez: Aye...we need like anti-anti-satellites! Kelso: I say we just drop conventional weapons - this sci fi stuff is too confusing. Donna: *snorkle* Hahahah...You said balls!
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Eric: *puff* so here we are again guys
Fez: Hey hey, let's play that game...joo know...where we think about ways to annihilate ourselves from space! *puff*
Kelso: Yeah! Annihilation! Cool! *puff*
Hyde: *puff* Ok - check this out - what if we like put LASERS up on satellites, and like, shoot people from space. Like in Star Wars!
Eric: Haha yeah! *puff* No no wait - what if we just toss junk down and let the kinetic energy gained through falling through earth's atmosphere yeild an inexpensive but highly destructive bomb!
Kelso: Like bowling balls!
Fez: Well, guys, what if we just divert asteroids that are already up there? You know not *all* of us have money for expensive space programs.
Eric: *puff* But...wait...what if something happens to our satellites?
Hyde: *puff* Like anti-satellites?
Fez: Aye...we need like anti-anti-satellites!
Kelso: I say we just drop conventional weapons - this sci fi stuff is too confusing.
Donna: *snorkle* Hahahah...You said balls!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
lots of good pix here
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http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/sbl.htm
a paper on SBL for missile defense
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/docs/98-1
SBL fact sheet (PDF)
http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/pdf/sbl.pdf
Missile Defense Agency homepage
http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/html/bmdolin
other links
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/md/sbl/
http://www.sbl.losangeles.af.mil/Divisions/FrontO
http://www.trw.com/presskits/detailinfo/0,1067,2_
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