Follow my reasoning - the world loved Obama when he did his world tour in September 2008. They cheered adoringly, the fainted, laughed, clapped, and celebrated His coming. The One then told the world that the US was very nearly unilaterally disarming, would never use nuclear weapons first or even after an attack (which pretty much means we will never use them period). YET the world is all paranoid about two space launches - as if the US will have weapons we would use on poor defenseless peace loving people. My question - did you believe what you showed you believed when you were cheering for His Highness, and if you did, do you not believe The One when he says He will NEVER use nuclear weapons against anyone, is in fact cutting military projects, and generally dislikes the military, yet suddenly you see military preparation going on. Hmmm. Your brain and your motor skills are not connected? You are separated from your body or head? I doubt we could develop any weapon Obama would agree to ever use. Nor would he allow the militarization of space while He sits in the White House.
The article does not mention the real fear the world should have - China has said it will go the moon. China wants to be a super power, China wants to go to the moon, China wants to create a space station on the moon, China wants to use space as a weapon against the US - CHINA is the threat you silly twits. Yet, they go on and on and on and on about the US and secret space launches. Please. Worry about things that are real, not the boogeyman, not Freddy Krueger, not Jason or Michael ... worry about real things.
From The Times
April 24, 2010
Michael Evans, Pentagon Correspondent
Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon
Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build.
The mysterious X37B, launched successfully by the US Air Force from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, using an Atlas V rocket, looks like a mini-Space Shuttle — but its mission is top secret.
It is officially described as an orbital test vehicle. However, one of its potential uses appears to be to launch a surge of small satellites during periods of high international tension. This would enable America to have eyes and ears orbiting above any potential troublespot in the world.
The X37B can stay in orbit for up to 270 days, whereas the Shuttle can last only 16 days. This will provide the US with the ability to carry out experiments for long periods, including the testing of new laser weapon systems. This would bring accusations that the launch of X37B, and a second vehicle planned for later this year, could lead to the militarisation of space.
US defence officials, who would not say how much the project had cost, insisted, however, that it was “just an updated version of the Space Shuttle activities”.
Thursday’s launch was more about testing the craft, a new generation of silica tile and a wealth of other advances that make the Shuttle look like yesterday’s space technology.
Nasa’s X37B programme began in 1999 and ran until September 2004 when it was transferred to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency before being taken over by the US Air Force.
The flight of the X37B is being managed by the US Air Force Space Command’s 3rd Space Experimental Squadron.
“This bird has been through all of the shake, rattle and roll, the vibration tests, the acoustic tests that any spacecraft would go through,” said Gary Payton, Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programmes.
With all the focus on the launch of the secret X37B, another space launch by a Minotaur IV rocket from Vandenberg Air Force base in California received less attention.
It was carrying the prototype of a new weapon that can hit any target around the world in less than an hour.
The Prompt Global Strike is designed as the conventional weapon of the future. It could hit Osama bin Laden’s cave, an Iranian nuclear site or a North Korean missile with a huge conventional warhead.
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