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Originally posted by Spanky
Are you kidding? Ever since the end of the cold war there has been constant calls for the end of funding for SDI (including on this board). Why do you think Ty and Adder are debating this? Why does every time an SDI test fails it is posted on this board as a "see I told you so..."?
You would think this would be one area every rational human being in the United State could agree on, but it is not. Like I said, my theory is that since SDI was originally proposed by Reagan a large swath of Democrats and liberals will always be against the idea, no mater how much sense it makes, simply because of who proposed it.
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Or it could be that even after being hugely stripped back from the original pipe dream, it still doesn't work.
I think we should spend reasonable amounts researching it, but I think we would be nuts to think that this is a meaningful piece of the defense strategy.
And, moreover, we should realize that it is just yet another escaltion, and its usefulness is likely to be short-lived (see, e.g., China work on anti-satellite weapons).
