Welcome to the arms race for the 21st century -- space!

[thewayne]

The Chinese apparently have successfully destroyed one of their aging weather satellites with a kinetic kill at an altitude of 500 miles.

Let the space wars begin!

http://www.aviationweek.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/CHI01177.xml

Comments

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Welll.....

On the one hand, good for them for having developed that kind of technology. That takes some doing.

On the other hand, oh SHIT.... That could end up making things really interesting, especially if we're going to be trying to get into an arms race with the Chinese while still trying to salvage the debacle that Iraq has become.