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Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 16 2019, @12:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the space-ace dept.

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Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space. While military leadership rattling the space sabers is nothing new, Kwast's lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever. Is this mere posturing or could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday December 16 2019, @01:15PM (4 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday December 16 2019, @01:15PM (#932822) Journal

    It sounds like the Military Industrial Complex senses a new gold rush, in space!

    Sigh. Sure, why not. What the hell else do we build anymore except weapons?

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by maxwell demon on Monday December 16 2019, @01:23PM (2 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday December 16 2019, @01:23PM (#932825) Journal

    What the hell else do we build anymore except weapons?

    Surveillance technology?

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday December 16 2019, @02:45PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday December 16 2019, @02:45PM (#932853)

      Surveillance technology?

      I worked for a couple of surveillance technology companies, primary customers: the military (around the world), and a major hospital chain.

      could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?

      Science fiction became reality in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, 1957 with Sputnik, in 1971 with the commercial waterbed, and thousands of other times over the last 100 years.

      Star Wars got a HUGE and very visible funding push in the late 1980s, 30 years later we should be harvesting more fruits of that investment than a few high power lasers.

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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 17 2019, @08:23AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 17 2019, @08:23AM (#933210) Journal

      Surveillance technology?

      That's one of the more potent weapons.

  • (Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Tuesday December 17 2019, @12:04AM

    by Rupert Pupnick (7277) on Tuesday December 17 2019, @12:04AM (#933083) Journal

    Well, Afghanistan didn’t work out so well. Best to move someplace where the opportunity to spend is high, and accountability is low.