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The Dozen Space Weapon Myths

Posted by Hemos on from the look-up-project-avalon dept.

Thanks to Disowned Sky for finding a good debunking piece on space based weapon systems. Slightly disheartening, because I really want to have solar energy satellites that are also lasers. The article does a good job of looking further afield at nations besides the United States efforts in this area.

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  1. Please, for the love of God by PIPBoy3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No jokes about solar powered sharks with frikin' lasers in orbit.

  2. Well crap... by physicsboy500 · · Score: 3, Funny

    There go my plans to make a life-sized replica of the Death Star!

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  3. Time travel is possible, and NASA has it by will_die · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget all those press stories from scientists currently around that say time travel is impossible.
    We now have proof that NASA and the US Military have it.
    As clearly started in this article, from a guy in NASA, the US Military is talking about going back in time by 7+ years and put a missle defense system in Czechoslovakia.

  4. Re:not much by PPH · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm employed. I don't have that much free time on my hands. Besides, if we all hung around the loading docks, it would get pretty crowded.


    That's what reporters are paid to do for us.

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  5. Deadliest Space Weapon by TheCybernator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Deadliest 'Space' Weapon - MySpace.com :)

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  6. Re:still living the cold war by Notquitecajun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or fact Czeching.

  7. Cartoons eh... by SohCahToa · · Score: 2, Funny

    > This goes double for nuclear weapons: putting them into space on a permanent basis was last taken seriously in the Sunday comics in the late 1950's.

    i vaguely remember snoopy and woodstock launching a nuclear weapons platform into space to help stop lucy from pulling the football out from charlie brown

  8. Re:Hey look, just for Slashdot! by Alzheimers · · Score: 2, Funny

    All you need to do is threaten some brainy college kids, and boom: five-megawatt laser by mid-may, capable of vaporizing a human target from space.

    Simple!

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