The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) wants $10 million to investigate space-based weapons over the next year. As Pentagon budgets go, it is small change, but it is also a red flag for critics who worry that such plans could turn space into a shooting gallery.
Most of the $8.9 billion the Bush administration plans to spend on missile defence over the next year will go towards developing systems based on the ground, at sea, or in the air.
These defences "could be greatly enhanced", however, by adding space-based interceptors, Lieutenant General Trey Obering, head of the MDA, told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
