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[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Voyons Donc"][quote name="motherfuckerfoodeater"]So the guys who can't even get missiles out of a silo are going to build laser sattelites, or even worse, <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03209/206344.stm">this </a>(boy, I can't <b>wait</b> for the first massive test failure with this technology) to protect us? Why don't we just detonate our entire nuclear stockpile now and get it over with?[/quote] [quote name="post-gazette.com"]Jerry Pournelle, a science writer and chairman of the Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy, came up with the idea, which he originally named "Thor" after the Norse god of thunder. The Pentagon won't say how far along the project, or variants of the idea, may be in development.[/quote] The Pentagon is spending money to research and develop the masturbation fantasies of sci-fi writers. Not a "science writer". <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/104-8108398-5920731?field-keywords=%22jerry+pournelle%22&mode=blended&tag=mozilla-20&sourceid=Mozilla-search">A sci-fi writer who specializes in galactic war fantasy.</a> This is what you might call "cause for concern".[/quote] Why? Because someone with imagination and intelligence who has given lots of thought to this kind of thing before is helping the DOD? You make Jerry sound like a nutcase or something. By the way, read his and Larry's books. They're awesome.[/quote]