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United States Planning For A War In Outer Space?

Date: Jan 25, 2012 | Author: Josh Tyler | Category: Sci-Fi In Real Life

It seems like we’ve been talking about the possibility of putting weapons in space ever since Reagan, and truly the whole idea of weaponizing the empty space outside our atmosphere first gained traction in the fifties. Yet, nothing truly significant has ever really come of it. Now it seems the United States government is at it again.

The Obama administration bowed out of an international agreement designed to demilitarize space while reducing floating debris on Januar 12th, and that got people talking. Then a few days later US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton issued a statement in which she made it clear that the US won’t agree to anything which restricts our “national security-related activities in space.”

If I thought there was any chance that the United States might be pointing its weapons outward in preparation for some sort of alien invasion, I’d be all for this newly militaristic stance towards the stuff out amongst the stars, but of course that’s not what’s going on here.

The good news is that the United States is working to create some sort of outer space code of conduct, which they along with other nations will agree to adhere to, it’s just not going to contain anything that’ll prevent the US government from putting death rays in orbit and pointing them at Afghanistan. Or on the positive side, from putting a giant “laser” in orbit to fight back against little green men when they finally get down to the business of invading us.

Here’s a thought. If the United States is really worried about being able to militarize near-Earth orbit then perhaps now is a good time to give NASA the funding they need to replace the shuttle program? And hey, why not get a jump on the Martian arms race while we’re at it, and dump some money into putting a man on the red planet? Just a thought, take it or leave it Obama. You’re welcome.

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Comments

  • Mike

    Maybe the long-range planners are getting ready to fight the Chinese in twenty years for lunar resources, after somebody else has paid for figuring out how to get to them…

  • TB

    The weapons are already there and have been. That’s why we said no thanks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Al-Pa/100001996399447 Al Pa

    nah asteroids maybe, maybe, but not a moon… moon mining never works good for hte planet :/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Al-Pa/100001996399447 Al Pa

    seriously though they actualy are working on a different sort of space shuttle program now nasa is proly gona get turned into more of a theory based thing for now, its not terrible really i think we should all just ignore the space weapons an focus on space travel, which means improving how we utilize resources like food an water an energey production :D how practical :/  alhtough space flight would be sorta cool

  • Michael the Somewhat Civilized

    Weapons in space have been discussed openly since the end of WW2.  There was even a proposal for a “UN Space Force” to keep the peace all over the world, launched from orbital stations. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1244384053 Stefan Werner

    I’ll bet if Newt Gingrich gets elected, he’ll want to put a man on Uranus… I’m just sayin’…
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lucy-Troke/612094851 Lucy Troke

    people people!! we cant expect nothing from nasa so al this manned mission to mars was rubbish in fifties and rubbish now. cos people in control of world only wants to fuel war, cos war makes money. this does means that weapons like nukes r already there so there telling us so that we can go ‘oh we have to get rid of them! help us obama’ cos they want us all dependant on them. like native americans said ‘DONT TRUST THE GOVERMENT!!’

  • Jack

    mastering weapons in space is extremely important to future altercations with alien forces (not all aliens with be friendly!), dealing with incoming asteroids, &defending ourselves from other nations attacking us. That said, equally vital is the mastery of force fields!! Even our engine technology is pathetic for space travel, we have the whole horizon to work on before we can feel safe or powerful. As far as doom & gloom, if humans are bent on killing each other, space weapons are not going to be a mandatory requirement. In all honesty the fact that these endangered communist countries & dictators have not yet built a space program to go claim other planets is bizarre. If China or Iran went & defended Mars, the USA would be hard pressed to stop them anytime soon.