Comments on: Laser Mirrors May Get Testy

By: jg

jg — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:41:30 +0000

Seriously, we have spent how many billions of dollars on a weapon that can be stopped by a simple mirror? And of course those billions went to creating the super laser defense industry. Good luck getting these a-holes to stop bothering with a useless weapon, that would mean the guys making money off of its construction wouldn’t be making that money. Do you think they’ll contact their favorite lobbyist on K-Street, who will craft a neat-o PR campaign to justify throwing more money at them? Gotta love the United States of Military Industrialism.

By: juba

juba — Sat, 26 May 2007 01:02:09 +0000

This has got to be the dumbest article and weapon system in existence.
So…if you can bounce a laser off of a mirror, what’s to prevent the missile from being coated with a mirror surface? $50 of silver coating to defeat this pork barrel monstrosity.
Damn people are stupid.

By: man

man — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:34:51 +0000

if we can see this whats hush hush?!

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:35:59 +0000

A global eavesdropping system? Windows reflect lasers and act as ear drums, but the angle would be wrong from space. Maybe you could overcome that by spending a gazillion dollars? I have no idea.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:30:42 +0000

Hey cool! Just like in C&C Generals! Particle beam for the win. :/

By: Victoria Samson

Victoria Samson — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:50:02 +0000

Best part? Where Hughes says, “Our key of course is managing expectations, we certainly don’t want to get to the point where we’re promising more than we can deliver.” That would be a nice change of pace from the way missile defense has been handled to date.

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:05:19 +0000

This should have been part of the black project that will never reach public eyes.