The DEATH STAR plan

[LuckyTheDog]

I am "officially" coining the term "Death Star Plan" to refer to this:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/18/arms.space.reut/index.html

[Kipling]

1. Bet anyone a grand...

That it ends up being called the "Liberty Star".

[paparush]

2. Air Force SEEKS Nod from Bush?

Are they kidding me? As if he'd NOT give the go-ahead. Chimpface Cuckoo Commander is "All Weapons All the Time!"

"We must keep 'Murkins safe from terr and spred Freedum by uhhh securin this here solar system that God made on Day 3 of the uhhh Great Genesis uhhhh creation thing"

[sexybomber]

3. I forget where I heard this... but...

Isn't it interesting that Reagan was pushing the first Star Wars plan right around the end of the first trilogy, and now The Ass is pushing the Star Wars Redux right around the end of the second trilogy?

Capitalizing on pop culture to promote a thoroughly ridiculous military endeavour... Interesting...

[johnaries]

6. check this out

Another thread referred to these comments from SimianOverlord on Slashdot (at least the Simian part is correct):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=12567197&sid=149926

"Unfortunately, some of the themes in the original Star Wars series have, in my opinion, contributed to the mindset of International terrorism, the cancer we see worldwide today."

"...I have heard some argue that the rebels actions were justified by the Empires act in blowing up Aldebaran, Leia's home planet. Firstly I would beg you to remember that history is written by the victors. Did this peace loving planet Aldebaran even exist, or was it mere PsyOps? Did the "Deathstar" (actual name: FreedomLoveMoon) destroy anything larger than an asteroid?"

actual name, "FreedomLoveMoon"!!! :rofl:

Be sure and read the whole comment, and forward it to all your Repug acquaintances to get their opinions.

[parkia00]

4. Freedom Star!

Likely ended up being called the Freedom Star since it gives freedom all over the globe.

[annabanana]

5. Yeeps! what a graphic!

and Welcome to DU!
:toast:

[MadHound]

7. You know what is funny about this, in "how dumb can they be" sort of way

All of these space weapons can be easily brought down by a very low tech method. Chuck a few hundred pounds of BBs into low Earth orbit, and watch the satellites and weapons come a tumbling down.

What's even sadder is that if they intensify the amount of garbage that we're putting into orbit, they will also increase the amount of space debris that is currently circling the globe. NASA is already having problems with launch windows, satellite deployments and what have you due to there being so much space debris. Adding a few dozen more satellites and weapons means an radical increase in the junk floating around. If we keep up at this pace we won't be able to get anything at all into space, for it will immediately be punctured and compromised when it gets into orbital levels, due to there being so much shit floating around.

[rman]

8. "The focus is having free access in space."

...for the US only.


Unilateralism goes to space
EE Times
(05/19/2003 10:29 AM EDT)

From the day Donald Rumsfeld became defense secretary, concurrent with the release of the Rumsfeld Commission Report on national security in space, the Pentagon's favorite buzzword for space technology has been "transformation." But even some of the United States' closest allies worry about another buzzword being used in subtler ways at the National Reconnaissance Office: "negation." The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in charge of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time-not just adversaries, but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets.

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030519S0030