Thursday Items

Two items in the news I wanted to talk about today.

The first is a story from Spaceref.com on China's successful test of an ASAT weapon. Yep, the Chinese got a kinetic energy ASAT weapon and were able to test it on one of their old weather satellite. The US also has an ASAT weapon but we only tested it once, think in 1985 and now it is supposed to be against international law to test ASAT weapons because it creates more junk in space which can damage other satellite or the international space station. But I guess since the US didn't do the testing its not newsworthy.

The scary thing is, if the PRC does have an effective ASAT program, a large part of the US smart bombs are now vulnerable. They rely on GPS guidance and if the Chinese take out the GPS satellite, our expensive JDAMS are now just dumb bombs.

Hat tip Lucianne

The second item is about Senator Obama. He is running for President. His father was a Muslim and according to Islamic Law, that makes Sen. Obama a Muslim. However, Sen. Obama claims to be a Christian. Now the penalty for leaving the Islamic faith is death in many countries. It will be interesting to see if anyone will ask him if he will feel threatened visiting places like Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, or Turkey. It will be interesting to see if CAIR will agree that people have the right to choose their religion and that includes the right to change their religion without fear of persecution as stated in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Will be interesting to see what develops.

Hat tip Lucianne

Have a good Day