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Space lasers work and are a great way to destroy other sattelites. His SDI program was way crazier though, X-ray lasers fueled by shaped charge nukes to shoot down ICBMs.

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Still more reasonable than Project Pluto. I can’t believe how far we got in that particular mistake.

ETA the x-ray lasers were only a part of it. They were throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what stuck.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

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Is the CIA still messing around with psychics?

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Probably… Does anyone know what the CIA is currently doing?

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