Re:Frying cities.. (Score 1)

What I find hard to believe is the low level of paranoia in all comments on this subject. OK this is a a forum where people are techno-positive and largely american (ie not so worried about being dominated by someone else, because it's their country that's doing the dominating). But heavens above! It can hardly have escaped notice that this announcement comes very close on the heels of the launch of the whole national missile defense nonsense. Of course, the oil companies control everything, so why is this happenin?. Because it has a control agenda as well as a power cover. On the milder shores of conspiracy theory, how much and how many of the technologies will overlap between the microwave satellite idea and the NMD satellite mounted laser ideas? More worryingly, the comments on the safety aspects of this thing are just soooo wide eyed and innocent. It could be safe, therefore it will be. Again, on the mild side, Three Mile Island could have been safe. On the wild side, these things could be not safe. Are the Pentagon going to ignore the possibilities of intentional unsafeness in time of crisis? I think not. Dr Evil has nothing on those guys. resist american cultural hegemony!