NEWS "In Your Face From Outer Space" Those among you with a pronounced interest in "space control technology," anti-satellite weaponry, "destructo swarmbots" and"robo-bugs" will surely delight in The New York Time's lengthy examination of the Pentagon's efforts to achieve "Global Battlespace Dominance." Rife with Strangelovian pronouncements and an assortment of developing weaponry that includes "gnat robot threat detectors" and "space-based AI-driven intelligence master minds", this article offers some insight into the coming militarization of space and its potential consequences. While many support the military's research into space technologies, others warn that deploying a celestial arsenal would inspire widespread concern among U.S. allies. "If we aggressively move weaponry into space," Michael Krepon of the think tank Stimson Center told The New York Times, "then we will start an arms race."
Here is the fun part for sci-fi fans: "In preparation, space planners have already engaged in some feverish brainstorming. They envision a high-tech arsenal that will take full advantage of the military potential of space, ranging from the near-term possible to long-term notional: kinetic energy rods, microwave guns, space-based lasers, pyrotechnic electromagnetic pulses, holographic decoys, robo-bugs, suppression clouds, 360-degree helmet-mounted displays, cluster satellites, oxygen suckers, microsatellites, destructo swarmbots, to name a few. "
