I hope everyone is ready to see the new Star Wars!

No, not the movie. I'm talking about the new proposals from the Pentagon about militarizing space. The people who brought us the $100 billion missile defense system that doesn't work now want ten times that amount to do the following things:

-Make a space plane that could strike at any target within 45 minutes
-Make a big laser
-throw metal cylinders at countries so fast that the impact is similar to that of a tactical nuclear weapon (this project is actually named "Rods from God")
-attack and defend satellites

The General in charge of all this nonsense sums it up like so: "We must establish and maintain space superiority. It's the American way of fighting... Space superiority is not our birthright, but it is our destiny."

Well, if it's our destiny, then I guess we have to go along. And then we can threaten rogue nations with Rods from God if they're not nice.