
Some time ago, I perused a book by George Friedman called the Next Hundred Years. I've already blogged about it in the past but this morning I nearly choked on my cornflakes when I read headlines on the internet detailing "hypersonic missile technology using satellites". No.....no..... this couldn't be happening. George Friedman couldn't be right for once? This is impossible! Well, it's true.
US President Barack Obama is reviving an Bush Administration wunderwaffe which could possible cause Ragnarok. The way this weapon works is wonderfully simple. ICBM's equipped with conventional warheads utilizing scramjet engines. These missiles would shoot up high into the atmosphere near space where they would deploy a glider guided by satellite towards their target, then the glider would deploy the warhead to nearest wedding in Pakistan. All part of the weaponization of space. I've also heard news of using special "X Planes" the US government is developing in the same hypersonic capacity to act as military satellites that'll relay information to missiles, warships, drones etc. because they're harder to shoot down. The Chinese blew up a satellite using a missile last year and this got the US defense planners scared for that China-US war over Taiwan 15 years down the road. These maneouvarable satellites would stand a better chance.
Anyways, the weaponization of space is a scary reality but this is all part of Obama's plan. He must think he's wickedly smart for doing this. For every nuclear weapon that's decomissioned, each is turned into a hypersonic missile. With nuclear weapons, at least you know they most likely wouldn't be used and if they were used you'd die instantly or slowly due to radiation burns...or even slower due to the sun being blocked out by radioactive dust as if you're close to an Icelandic volcano. But no, these warheads would make the sound of your lungs collapsing and your ears bursting due to external pressure an even more spectacular event. Even scarier is that these things could get anywhere on Earth in less than an hour. What if the US placed these things in... I don't know; Poland? They could hit Moscow in 5 minutes. 5 minutes. 5 minutes.
I don't care what you think. This is much worse than a nuclear weapon because countries will actually USE this technology to kill people thousands of kilometres away from their tiny computer monitors while eating Doritos and sipping on Diet Coke. War is becoming much less personal in this way and more like an odd computer game where the bad guys can often be little children in an Iraqi street like that Wikileaks video which had most ordinary people surprised at the brutality of modern day conflict. Now, imagine that coming in at the speed of Mach 17. Things just get worse and worse. Soon, we'll be using satellites to collect UV energy and we'll be sending it down to Earth in the form of microwaves. What..the...fuck. Fucking Stratfor.
The picture above is the various steps that the US Government will take before actually using hypersonic missiles to kill brown people.
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