1 post tagged “responsive space”

By day I work for a company that's got a few contracts involved in the Operationally Responsive Space area. So I keep a Technorati search link tuned to responsive space postings.

Today a post came up from a peace activist apparently alarmed that

U.S. space radar facilities are now scattered all over the planet and are being upgraded for participation in the Star Wars program....

The funny part of this, and the reason I'm posting about it, is the guy's page header:

Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.

So, let me get this straight Bruce. You're against nuclear power in space?

Do these folks have even a modicum of education? Did they miss basic science in school? Space is FILLED with nuclear power already.

They're called STARS. And one particular nuclear power source, THE SUN, makes life on Earth possible:

the Sun, like most stars, is a main sequence star. This means that it generates its energy by nuclear fusion