Just FYI, FWIW, I just ran across this:
What they'll never tell you.......
ARMY TO TEST SATELLITE KILLER A decision to grant the Army permission to finally test their million-watt laser "satellite killer" is near, reports Paul Richter in Monday's LOS ANGELES TIMES. The White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico is home to the project that creates "a white-hot, 6-foot-wide laser beam, generated through a complex reaction." It's housed in a complex that looks like a utility plant. Richter writes: "The Army is poised to fire up a furnace in the New Mexico desert, collect the raging energy on mirrors and focus it into a laser beam aimed to cripple a satellite... A successful trial of the laser would give the military at least theoretical dominance over the realm of satellite reconnaissance." The test would be the most dramatic use of a weapon that was born in the Reagan administration's Star Wars program; it could be used to destroy enemy satellites monitoring U.S. and allied troops and weapons in future wars. The test proposal has reached the Pentagon for final approval and a decision appears to be near, says the paper.
9-21-97.
Six years later, guess who also has them......
China
599 posted on 02/01/2003 1:32 PM EST by USABLUE (And so it begins..........)
Located here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833957/posts?page=599#599
This is not directed at you but at the message you referenced. It is undoubtedly but the most stupid post I've ever seen in my short stay here.