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US already has weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary says
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Ahh yes, the imaginary orbital protection pulled straight from Reagan's playbook.
Yes but don't miss the fact that the X37b gives you all the ability to mess with all the orbital communications equipment you could possibly want, wasting a ton of energy lifting weapons into space to shoot at other satellites or shoot down at earth is an absurd proposition given the stupendous energy cost but an unmanned space shuttle with an arm that can fiddle with things that can stay in space and change its orbit with aerobraking constantly for years on end......? That is exactly what you would want for this kind of thing.
They called it operation star wars because it implied space lasers but actually it was just fiction.
Also Regan's brain was soup.
Seems to be an advantage in the presidency.
TBH I think he was corrupt to the bone and feigning incompetence.
He played off Iran Contra as ignorance of political nuance but I think he knew full well the consequences of every action.
Oh I'm not making excuses for him, the dude was evil, but he announced his Alzheimer's diagnosis 5 years after he left office. It's unlikely he had full faculties while in office.
We agree on something.
Or Jewish American space lasers are real.