Hmmm…

     The sky isn’t falling…but it is disappointing as all hell that space exploration and development, which has recently has become a venue for international cooperation and a sort of diplomacy…might become another wedge to drive between us and the rest of the world.

     Some people might worry about how if we put weapons into space, those weapons could be used to enforce a dictatorial regime, should anyone happen to be planning such a move in the near future here in the U.S. government. (Oh, don’t worry, we’ll only use our tungsten/titanium/uranium mass-driver cannons to obliterate TERRORIST targets.)

     Some people might worry that it could spark a space weapons race that will lead to another chess-game-of-death that was the cold war (and often not really all that cold, especially if you were living in one of the HOT SPOTS like Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvadore, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran…etc.)

     Some people might worry about terrorists using hackers to gain control of our own weapons systems and turning them against us…and there being nothing we can do to defend ourselves against weapons in space.

     Some people might worry about what sort of an effect total military supremacy in space could do exacerbate the already dangerous attitudes of an already cock-sure, jingoistic, unilateral-minded cadre of public policy makers (who, let’s face it, will be brought back again and again every time a Republican wins the white house).

     Some people might worry about the massive, massive, massive public debt we already have, and how we’ve already spent around 100 Billion dollars on a certain program that many experts say is based on fundamentally flawed thinking…and has met with a success rate that roughly approximates the success rate you would expect with blind lucky shots-in-the-dark.

     But me, I’m not worried.  I’m just basking in the irony.

     Jeff Gannon says democrats are “divorced from reality”.  I’m a Sci-Fi fan.  I know from escapist fiction, and this is IT baby.  This is just another installment in the Star Wars saga…and I don’t mean the movies.  Sure, surveillance, intelligence, communications, disrupting communications…but big honkin’ space guns are another story altogether.

     Creationists claim there are holes in the Theory of Natural Selection that you could drive a truck through…and yet they get behind THIS?

     Education and Social Security cost too much, but we’ve got more money to spend on THIS?

     Terrorists can make a bomb out of a shoe.  Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building with a bomb, handmade from fertilizer and diesel fuel…but we need space guns to fight them with?

Please. 

     But I LOVE the assertion that if we don’t dominate space militarily, someone else will.  No, they won’t.  Because nobody else is that rich or that stupid.