Hah-ha-ha!This kind of stuff really tickles me. A couple years ago, the Chinese blasted a satellite out of orbit to show their space muscles. The Chinese *actually* tested an anti-satellite missile. We hardly said a word. You can Google it.
Now we accomplish a much more difficult technical task -- and more importantly, for an object below orbit, falling at 70,000 mph. And we are said to court "an international row."
Hypocrisy!The USA should use nuclear missiles to carve a smiling face on the moon -- just to show our contempt for this bullsquat. It might be a great incentive for trade and disarmament negotiations if, during same, we were carving a face on the moon during the negotiations.
Big 10-megaton bombs for the eyes, little 175-kiloton missiles for the eyebrows, smaller nukes to shade the side of the nose ... perhaps something in the style of Joshua Reynolds.
That way, we could really court "an international row." I can imagine the headlines: Yanks Carve Moon! World Outraged! Why Reynolds? asks ArtNews Why Not Me? asks Trump US Resolves Man? Woman? Rabbit? Controversy Forever! and so on..... Pierrot ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html