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Conquering the LaGrange Points?
3laws_safe writes "For decades, people have dreamed about building colonies at the five LaGrange points, intersections in space where gravitational and centrifugal forces balance out to provide orbital stability. But now, the official magazine of the U.S. Space Command advocates seizing control of the LaGrange points before other nations do it. From the article: 'We face the need to control the chokepoints of the solar system.' Arthur C. Clarke, who depicted a LaGrange colony in his classic 1961 novel A Fall of Moondust, is not very happy about this. He argues we should not 'export national rivalries beyond the atmosphere.' Is he right? Or should we prepare for the fact that such rivalries are inevitable, even in space?"
It's stupid shit like this that makes other nations despise you.
Yeah, I can see that. That explains why so many people in those other nations are risking death to move here and become citizens. Confirms the theory that humans are all masochists.
I think most American citizens are fine people. It's time for you citizens to wrest control back from the evil scum who run your country.
Despite some propaganda to the contrary, insurance salesmen and lawyers do not run this country. We have benign scum running our country, thank you very much.
If you do not, the inevitable outcome will be further degradation of your personal safety. You can not afford to let this happen.
That sounded like the stereotypical veiled threat of a terrorist. Please stand by where you are and await personnel from the Department of Homeland Security and their escort by the 82nd Airborne to come and speak with you.
Okay, here's your choice Earth. The USA or North Korea getting the high ground? Well, when you put it that way...
For those of you positing the United Nations, consider they have a track record of efficiency at their chartered mission about like the USPS for perfect on-time unmangled catalog deliveries. The cost of a ticket to an orbital colony would have a 6000% surcharge on it to redistribute money to third world nations busy butchering their populations in ethnic and religious warfare but getting away with it because they somehow got weaseled onto one council or another and the secretary general happened to like their politics over the western world and...
I don't think so.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
And the Americans will have to wait till they find terrorists somewhere near the leGrange points, like Saturn or Andromeda, before they can invade ;)
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Simply FUD. I could just as easily say that the US is the ONLY nation with a proven track record of operating outside of LEO. The parent post is just another rant by a bitter old man somewhere.
I vote we promote user (843940) to the rank of Captain. Thus making him Captain Obvious. All in favor?
France's space capability is as part of the ESA and by definition not independent. It is dependent on the other memebers of the ESA.
I guess that makes you an Anonymous Moron.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.