May the force be with you

Slightly off topic, but the US Government's Star Wars defense programme makes Microsoft's lack of progress in the last 5 years look pretty good. I came across an interesting article about the latest development in the programme.

Now, call me old fashioned, but $100 billion and 23 years work is quite a lot of time and money to spend on something that has only worked once in testing, and they are not sure if it will work in practice!

If you are wondering what happened to all that money, and where the 'space laser defence' system went to, have a look at the Wikipedia Strategic Defense Initiative article.


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