Posted on Dec 26, 2017
How Two Sci-Fi Writers Fueled a U.S. President's Wild Quest to Weaponize Space
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Outer Space offers the ultimate blank canvas for political ideologies, untainted as it is by human inhabitants and their attendant beliefs. Niven and Pournelle saw an opportunity to shape the great void in their political image, and Reagan viewed space as yet another tool to defend America against the communist superpower on the other side of the world.
How Two Sci-Fi Writers Fueled a U.S. President's Wild Quest to Weaponize Space
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If we had continued with the development of some of the "Star Wars" programs we would have a robust ICBM killer capability. North Korea or any other rouge nation wouldn't pose that kind of threat. Probably some other goodies as well.
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TSgt David L.
1stSgt Nelson Kerr - Kinetic kill rods were hardly fiction. Not every program being tested would have paid off. There is no way to know what might have came out that would have been cutting edge. We may never know.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
TSgt David L. - Kinetic kill rods are fantasy, even if you get past the treaties that we have signed forbidding us to put that kind of weapon in space. Do the math on how much weight would have to be diffed and relate that to the energy delivered. even with potential low cost lifters like the BFR the trade-offs make little sense. and that depends on a guidance system that can handle propled cold-soak storage then guild with great precision though reenter when external signals can not be used for guidance
If you want to just throw tons of money against long shot to stoop potential dangers the CDC would be a fat wiser choice. A single variety of flew killed more Americans in the 20th Century than both world wars
If you want to just throw tons of money against long shot to stoop potential dangers the CDC would be a fat wiser choice. A single variety of flew killed more Americans in the 20th Century than both world wars
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
As a Science Fiction fan I watched this happen while it was happening, It is pretty accurate.
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