French Expert Sees Imminent Space Warfare

AFP ^ | Feb 1, 2004

[Brett66]

Lord save us from these buffoons. They think that just because something is in space, that it's super-special, somehow in need of their globalist perception of preserving it's "purity". Such stupidity has led to the Outer Space Treaty, which we ratified, and the moon treaty, which we didn't ratify. The Outer Space Treaty is so vague and hippy-like with silly, high-sounding rhetoric, that it's full of legal holes so it's not too much of a problem -yet. We will have to eventually back out of it when we start developing serious assets on the lunar surface. Most of the hippy-dippy dems would love to sign off on these feel-good UN treaties that bottle up our future possibilities.

[FourtySeven]

The French should be worried about squirrel grenades! That's where the real front line in the WOT is.

still the funniest thing I've read here.......I never got around to bookmarking it though.....hint hint.......

[CrazyIvan]

MARS NEEDS SMELLY HAIRY LEGGED WOMEN!

[zygoat]

Space weapons? The Frogs can't even build an aircraft carrier that can leave port without dropping a propeller onto the seafloor and they're talking about space warfare? Bwahahahahahaha!

[sam_paine]

1) Americans are from Mars.
2) French want bribes from Venusians.

Did I get the translation right?

[Darksheare]

In more news the ISS is pelted with frogs tossed by two goldfish bowl wearing french restauranteers in a spacefaring cardboardbox.

[AdmSmith]

"All the more reason to sell arms to the Chinese. /sarcasm"

Perhaps the frogs read this
http://www.connectionmagazine.org/2003_09/ts_killer_satellites.htm

Expert Says Chinese 'Killer Satellites' May Pose Serious Threat to U.S.

by Chad Groening


(AgapePress) An expert on Communist China says a Pentagon report will soon reveal that Beijing has made tremendous advances in space technology that may pose a serious national security threat to the United States.

John Tkacik is the research fellow in China policy at the Heritage Foundation (heritage.org). He says a soon-to-be-released report on China's military capability indicates that the communist country has made great strides in space technology, and may soon supplant the Russians as the number-two space power in the world.

Moreover, Tkacik says the Chinese are not pursuing peaceful purposes in space, but in fact are working on technology with military tactical and defensive applications.

"The Chinese already have their own global positioning satellites [that are] almost impossible to attack, and are developing A-SAT -- anti-satellite -- capabilities to bring down American surveillance and global positioning satellites," Tkacik says.

The researcher believes the Pentagon's findings should be taken seriously. "This report is not the idle speculation of fevered right-wingers in Washington's basements. These are the considered analyses of the top intelligence professionals in the Defense Department," he says.

Tkacik finds the report "sobering" and feels that having Chinese "killer satellites" in space is clearly unacceptable. He says the United States must take steps to develop defenses that can limit the impact of rocket-launched or missile-launched anti-satellite systems.