The Christian Science Monitor offered a link to”the Worst Space Weapons Concepts Ever.”
The link connets to Space.com’s “Top Ten” pages, which has the “Top Ten Space Weapons.”
Sounds liek a bit of false advertising on CSM’s part, but the Space.com writer’s do try to titillate:
Weapons in space may seem like science fiction, but they’ve been creeping [...]
Jeremy Hsu writes in the Christian Science Monitor :
The X-37B, A U.S. Air Force space raises concerns about weapons in space. While its exact purpose remains unclear, it joins a host of new space technology that could usher in a new era of space warfare.
Now we are really getting things out of context. Really? Iran is Spooked?
From Asia Times, “US Robotic Shuttle Spooks Iran.”
USAF Deputy Undersecretary for Space Programs, Gary Payton, played down any speculation that the X37B is a test platform that could have any weapons applications. See the full response first reported in the Christian Science Monitor.
Methinks he doth protest too much.
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to comment on the upcoming launch of the USAF’s super-secret X-37B Space Plane.
First reported by Leonard Davies in Space News, it was picked up by MSNBC :
Jim Oberg has another great take on “Sense, nonsense, and pretense about the destruction of USA 193” in The Space Review.
Jeremy Hsu of Imaginova penned an article for Space News: “Space Arms Race Heats up Overnight.” A few choice bits (my emphases):
“It was an unfortunate choice by the United States that seems to have been unnecessary. The fact is that satellites fall from space all the time and the risk of it was fairly minimal,” [...]
I received this technical analysis (Forden analysis) by MIT’s Geoffrey E. Forden regarding the US Navy’s proposed shootdown of USA 193. Forden’s attempts at objectivity are laughable, but the commentary that accompanied his e-mail shows the ethical vacuity of his school of thought. Better to let some folks die than sully pristine outer space with the possibility of conflict [...]
Lots of good stuff today. I’ve been frozen out of my computer since the last post (DoD security is ensuring all its employees aren’t wasting the government’s money by playing video games or gambling off-shore while they are on company time–now that college football and the NFL are done for the year, fantasy games are [...]
John Hickman’s criticism of the failed Outer Space Treaty article is reverberating (see Eros Pace’s post below) through the blogosphere. An earlier, perhaps less well-crafted essay co-authored by John and myself appeared as “Resurrecting the Space Age: A State-Centered Commentary on the Outer Space Regime,” in Comparative Strategy 21 (Winter) 2002: 1-45. Here is an [...]