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August 2nd 03, 07:04 PM
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These guys are very well organized and fighting nuclear rockets andwe need to fight them!
Tony Rusi wrote:
I am not happy about the militarization of space. But that is the real world. Indeed. These guys think they've discovered something new, but space has been 'militarized' almost from day one. Aside from the fact that almost all launchers are derived from ballistic missile weapons, the military has long depended on satellites for communications, reconnisance and weather observations (they run their own weathersats, seperate from the civil ones) and navigation (Does Greenpeace ever use GPS?) to a steadily increasing extent since the early sixties. They forget that military *assets* are not necessairily *weapons.* But if, as we all hope, access to orbit gets more economical and frequent, those assets will be in greater need of protection. These guys live in a dream world and want to go back to living in caves and devolving back to tree slime. Nuclear propulsion is feasible and capable of taking thousands of settlers to Mars per day. And there's no obvious military aplication for a nuclear thermal rocket. Nuclear power for ion, plasma and other electric rockets may share some commonality with orbiting military systems that need more than solar panels can provide [or need high-thrust orbit changing/ASAT evasion ability that would tear them off, and/or make a a more compact, stealthier sat possible], but if the DoD had a great need for one (and got the funding), you'd likely hear little about it in order to protest, anyway. Only the open, civil programs are subject to this nonsense. That is why I support nuclear rockets. That is why we must counter this PR threat to Nuclear Propulsion. Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:17:07 -0400 From: "Global Network" Subject: KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK INT'L DAYS OF PROTEST TO STOP THE MILITARIZATION OF SPACE OCTOBER 4-11, 2003 Like I said, in some ways, it's too late. All we can hope to do is continue to keep weapons of mass destruction (when that meant only nuclear weapons) from being based beyond the atmosphere. NO STAR WARS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT! NO THEATRE MISSILE DEFENSE! Hmmm. They need to talk to Israel about that one. Continued North Korean missile tests could give Japan second thoughts, too. NO NUCLEAR ROCKET! Then goodbye to ever sending humans farther than Mars.... FUND HUMAN NEEDS! Last I saw, that was still happening, with far larger budgets. How effectively? That's another story. 
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