Monday, January 16, 2006
CHEKIT: "And now, the purple dusk of twilight time..."
The difficulties faced by the U.S. missile defense program are well-documented - but cast into a more puzzling light this week. Maybe those boys in the Pentagon should talk to them rocket-jockeys over at NASA - instead of hitting a bullet wih a bullet, they sent a bullet to take a bite out of a gigantic, bright-white orbiting bullet and brought that bite and the first bullet back to earth. No small feat for an agency that was, until recently, struggling to regain relevance. I mean, seriously - did you know that those two little rovers are still running?
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