re: #468 Daniel Ballard

Hey, I support giving shitloads of money to engineers and high energy physicists and the rest.

But we don’t, and we won’t, have a working Star Wars system. If we had spent the money directly on figuring out tactical missile interception rather than ICBM, we’d have a much better version of Iron Dome now. Instead, the research has to be adapted.

But I totally am on board with just shoving money at physicists and material engineers and shit. I love that. And arguably fantasy projects that have no real chance of coming true set a nicely high bar. But we’d have a much better missile defense system now if they had focused on tactical missile defense from the start, rather than anti-ICBM defense.