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?"

Comments

waste of money...

[ibn_khaldun]

I am just so happy that we are providing money so that these very highly-paid clowns can sit on their butts writing bad science fiction rather than, say

• armoring vehicles in Iraq
• providing for the future medical care of the soldiers currently being maimed in Iraq
• providing real security against terrorist attacks (e.g. inspecting container ships)
• providing all of the reconstruction aid we'd originally said we'd provide in Afghanistan and Iraq and that the military (the real ones, not the civilians like Cheney, Bush and Wolfowitz who pretend to be) said was absolutely essential for stabilization

So, we can't even secure the London Underground and these people are worried about the Chinese at the L5 points. Give me a break...

Re:Zion

[Impeesa]

Gundam had Nazis? Shit, I need to watch more of that...