{"id":192460,"date":"2009-03-28T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/28\/space-debris-cleaning-my-ass\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T14:09:00","slug":"space-debris-cleaning-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/28\/space-debris-cleaning-my-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Debris Cleaning, My Ass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the National Reconnaissance Office and Space Command are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-03-30&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/03\/30\/AW_03_30_2009_p38-128929.xml&amp;headline=Space+Command%2C+NRO+Promote+Lasers+to+Clear+Space+Debris&amp;rssid=123456789\">looking to set up a ground based laser system to clean up space debris<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m Anna Nicole Smith&#8230;.This isn&#8217;t an attempt to set up a cleaning system, this is an attempt to develop a laser based anti-satellite weapon, not withstanding their fig leaf of some sort of multinational effort:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>To help offset such a negative reaction, [<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Andrew <span>Palowitch<\/span>, director of the &#8220;Space Protection Program&#8221;<\/span>]<span>Palowitch<\/span> says, five lasers could be built and installed in five countries\u2014\u00adRussia, China, India, France and the U.S. All would be \u00adoperated by an international consortium with \u201ceverybody participating equally with free access to the particular sites in a coordinated activity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Propose a regime, that you could never get the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">French<\/span> to agree to, much less China, and then go and develop a satellite zapper on your own.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, how stupid do they think that we are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the National Reconnaissance Office and Space Command are looking to set up a ground based laser system to clean up space debris. (paid subscription required) And I&#8217;m Anna Nicole Smith&#8230;.This isn&#8217;t an attempt to set up a cleaning system, this is an attempt to develop a laser based anti-satellite weapon, not withstanding their fig &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}