Space Weapons Warning - Update

Experimental Satellites
And Anti-satellite Satellites

Last Thursday night an Atlas 5 rocket was sent aloft and on skyward from Cape Kennedy. DARPA and Space Command placed in low earth orbit some six "experimental" military satellites. Of these some are said to be used for refueling satellites but also capable of capturing and attaching themselves to most man-made satellites and changing their orbits, the Orbital Express program. Repeating again, and reading between the lines, these satellites can not only grab other satellites to boost their orbits - but also presumably bring them down in a fiery reentry. And are ready and able to do whichever is commanded.

The Chinese had also been working on technology for something like this for some time. They'll probably want to put their own in orbit next, satellites that capture other satellites and change their control and function in some way. (They didn't recently shoot apart their own satellite for no reason, like Reagan did over twenty years ago.) Or if someone wanted, they could just put something as simple as some big bags of sand in orbit rigged to explode, or maybe something as complicated as an EMP.

It seems to me that our leaders blunder on, and America has gone berserkers. Bush has called for the world to react either for or against his administration, who say either get behind them or get out of their way - follow them or face their wrath. Welcome to the twenty-first century, Mr. Schizoidman. Take a look at the scene you are creating. I'm speculating that you will still go ahead on and not listen to me, a somewhat concerned citizen. Que sera sera.

So the weaponization of space is full speed ahead. Get ready for satellite wars to begin. Does America really think it can conquer the whole world with satellites, nukes, the troops in Iraq, and all their false intelligence, money, and the cheering sections of high school football games chanting, "USA! USA! Shock and awe! We're #1!"? The nurse with a sweet female face announces with a smile, a wink, and a grin, "Time for your medicine."


Some related links:
http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/oe.htm

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070308_orbitalexpress_prelnch.html

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Working_On_Satellite_Defenses_In_The_Shadow_Of_Chinese_Test_999.html

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/01/18/us_voices_concern_over_china_satellite_killer_test/

Iraq Now - A Question for Free People

About Four Years After (Once Again)

First and foremost, what do the liberated people of Iraq think? If the Iraqis now truly have freedom and democracy, then perhaps they themselves should now put it to a vote on whether they wish the US military to leave or to stay, and not the US Congress which voted for an unnecessary war of aggression. Isn't it time yet for the matter to be broached and for the question to be asked?

I suppose it's none of my business anyway. I don't consider myself a free man either.