War in Space?

Well, I suppose that with all the space opera fiction we've filmed, taped, burned to disk, read, written and drawn over the years, it was inevitable that someone would want UN Resolution 2222 rendered irrelevant by their own force of will and policy enforcement sooner or later in the real universe.

What got me thinking about that?

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/10/19/tech-usspacepolicy-061019.html

Go take a look.

Speaking as a CBC fan...

...I'd like to suggest that anyone reading this LJ who also gives a hoot in a positive way about keeping the CBC going as a Canadian institution might want to look at signing onto the petition linked here:

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Apologies in advance to Livejournal and the CBC if I'm breaking any rules here. It is not my intent to do so.