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Boeing Successfully Tests Anti-Missile Laser
dankinit writes "MSNBC is reporting that a 'Boeing Co.-led team has successfully fired for the first time a powerful laser meant to fly aboard a modified 747 as part of a U.S. ballistic missile defense shield.' The test called 'First Light' has a budget of $474.3 million in the fiscal year 2005 and is part of a larger $10 billion dollar missile defense system."
You and everyone else with half a brain. However, all of our bitching won't change anything. It's the rich taking our money and making themselves and their friends richer and richer.
It doesn't have to do anything. It just has to look like it does something, then they can smile and pretend it's a useful device.
ehhh ya, lighten the fuck up plz thnx lmao
Insightful? Arrogant and misguided.
If you think the UN is going to provide you safety you are very close to totally wrong.
I never said the UN would provide safety. But seeing as the UN is a collection of the majority of the nations in the world, its not generally a good idea to piss them off.
The majority of the planet is weaker than the US, dependent on the US, or desperately in need of the US for protection or stability.
Canada is doing quite fine, thanks. Im sure there are quite a few nations out there that feel very much as though the US has hurt them far more than helped.
If your of the opinion that military might is what makes a country great, then perhaps you should evalute what your foreign policy has done to your image internationally. Get your head out of your ass and realize that the US is not the shining light in some world of poverty, violence and dispair.
Yeah, well, that entire religion has hated us for the better part of 150 years. And in earnet since the end of World War II.
Maybe that has to do with your foreign policy. Oh, and maybe a lot of them didnt have any problem with you until recently, when you invaded probably one of the more civilized of their nations in the middle east. You want a target for humanitarian reasons? Try Saudi Arabia. Oh right, they control a good section of your economy. Cant be pissing them off.
The US is significantly safer in many, many ways. However, it is clearly not secure.
Keep it up. Im sure your country will fall into civil war soon enough.
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Nobody wants to fix things here ??
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Great idea! Let's stop everything we're doing and focus on creating a utopian society.
We can get help from the Mormans, they did a good job of it.
10 billions of american dollars, this would help a great deal of people in need of basic things like a home, food and things more important than pr0tact1ng t3h us fr0m t4h m4ss1l3s!
Then we can all get together and feed the millions of Mexicans not paying taxes and the homeless people who are addicted to drugs and beer.
I'm surprised you find time to post on Slashdot--you should be out perfecting your physical imperfections and making sure you are immune of all sicknesses
You forgot that the most basic need is life. Without that, food and shelter is useless.
The whole terrorism thing is used by the american administration to manipulate the population...
Yeah, just like those terrorists manipulated the planes into the sides of buildings and manipulated those 3,000 people to their deaths.
Do you think that didn't happen? This "whole terrorism thing" happened and if we don't work to prevent it, it will keep on happening.
So, adjust your tinfoil hat, and get back to work Senator Kerry...
"While the US may not fear missiles being launched at us, we do have allies, chiefly Israel, that do..."
Ah, yes. Israel: the fifty-first State.
Mmmmmm... Bold, yet refreshing!