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

[fastlearner.livejournal.com]

Politically-savvy folks note that this is likely not any kind of actual push into militarizing space, but rather the Chinese trying to get the US to sign the non-militarization-of-space treaty that most of the world has signed but that the US has been balking on for years. China most likely doesn't want to spend the money on militarizing space, they just want the US to not screw with their satellites and to be bound by treaty to help enforce it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

The problem is that a rational government would be willing to talk about it, and we don't have one of those right now.