{"id":105013,"date":"2020-04-09T06:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-pentagon-wants-an-orbital-space-weapon-to-blast-enemy-missiles"},"modified":"2020-04-09T06:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:02:34","slug":"the-pentagon-wants-an-orbital-space-weapon-to-blast-enemy-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-pentagon-wants-an-orbital-space-weapon-to-blast-enemy-missiles","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon Wants an Orbital Space Weapon to Blast Enemy Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-pentagon-wants-an-orbital-space-weapon-to-blast-enemy-missiles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pxh-IjxG2KY\">the scene<\/a> in \u201cAkira\u201d where Tetsuo rips a satellite space weapon out of orbit?<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pxh-IjxG2KY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now the U.S. military wants to try something similar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2019\/03\/pentagon-wants-test-space-based-weapon-2023\/155581\/\">according to <em>Defense One<\/em><\/a>. The Pentagon is requesting hundreds of millions of dollars to ramp up space-based weaponry including particle beams and space lasers that\u2019ll fire downward at Earthly targets \u2014 a dark vision of the militarization of space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the scene in \u201cAkira\u201d where Tetsuo rips a satellite space weapon out of orbit? Now the U.S. military wants to try something similar, according to Defense One. The Pentagon is requesting hundreds of millions of dollars to ramp up space-based weaponry including particle beams and space lasers that\u2019ll fire downward at Earthly targets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}