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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?"
...Linking to horrible html since 1996.
What if we just chip in and buy the Space Command Generals a few star registry names - maybe that will keep them happy.
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Clearly. I would rather the US control those points than someone frankly and overtly evil.
Or should we prepare for the fact that such rivalries are inevitable, even in space?
Long Answer:
Look, if we keep fighting for first posts (see above) in a website, where we gain nothing but make such morons of ourselves, what moral authority do we have to stop the nations from fighting for the LaGrange points? "-1, greedy"?
Short Answer:
Yes, such rivalries are inevitable.
All your lagrange points are belong to U.S.
Obviously, you're not thinking either. Where are we going to get enough hydrogen if all the consumers are using it up? It's not like there's huge reservoirs of H just lying around and falling from the sky.
This is history. Prepare to repeat it.
especially when slashdot will dupe the article in a day or two
I'd pick cuba. Won't someone PLEASE think of the cigars.
No it's not, asshole.
After all, I am strangely colored.
Come up here to L5 and say that, punk! :)
I, for one, welcome our new Ur-Quan masters.
you can have my violent video games when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
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As a conservative, I favor the policy that ensures maximum violence.
Hahaha. Nice try with your Tory lies.
Next you're going to tell me that "Father, I cannot tell a lie. I chopped down the cherry tree" story was all made up.
'Scuse me while I wipe my tears from laughing so hard.
Jenna or Barbara?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.