Is that a brilliant move by POS defense secretary Gates? With threats all around us, from North Korea and China and Iran, he scales back a project that could shoot down their planes with a high-energy laser… What a brilliant idea!
I have it on very good authority that this move has now saved us 0.00001% of the federal budget.
The real problem is unless you already are in the middle of a war, no one is going to make the decision to shoot a missile near its launch pad moments after it is fired.
But some day these weapons will be for real.
Why is it that it seems as if our leadership (Gates, obama, whoever else) seems so hell bent to start WW3? Is this some kind of “Art of War” gamesmanship that I haven’t caught on to?
I thought the idea was to be powerful enough in deed and words such that you would never be challenged. Has the game changed?
Light in this universe comes in spherical shapes that are smaller than galaxies? Who knew?
I would have thought that a beam of coherent light scattered through atmosphere would have a cone shape that terminated at a target in a complex ellipsoid that didn't close in on itself, like a basketball.
But I'm just a cook, and culinary school doesn't cover nearly as much ground as J school does, obviously.
/johnny
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