Pat Flannery writes:

Then there's that fascinating Boeing artwork of X-40 variant with the RVs
riding on either wing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077821/


From the article:

I like John Pike's take on the whole thing:

Pike says there is another tradeoff — and one that is not positive for the
United States in general.

“The persistent judgment is that we don’t need it. It’s been discussed in
viewgraph land: physically possible, but not militarily useful. Military
planning is no longer threat-driven, but technology-driven. Previously, the
question was ‘What problem will this solve?’ Now, it’s ‘Isn’t this
astonishing?’ The idea is to astonish them.

“It’s gratuitously provocative. America has more than enough hegemony as it
is. And frankly, military dominance provokes responses. The easy way is to
corrupt them with our culture. That’s the tradeoff.”