I remember it was promoted alot by President Reagan..and even saw something on tomorrows world about it..The plan was to send up satellites with lasers on it and shoot down nuclear missiles...
2006-08-28 09:43:18 · 16 answers · asked by Red 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It was a huge money hole set up to funnel wealth to the rich by taking it away from the middle-class through taxation. The fact that they couldn't make it work, (Only successful tests of anti-missile system that worked involved target missiles with homing devices on them) didn't slow them down, but being such a blatant money grab, they had to tone it down and figure out a different way to rip off the middle-class (Bush's Tax "Reform")
2006-08-29 03:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-11 16:51:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stupid projects die ignoble deaths. We can't even protect our borders from people crossing, how can we keep out incoming missles? The whole idea was just a ruse to be able to pour trillions of dollars into the military-industrial complex and charge it to future generations. At what cost to bring down the evil Soviet Empire?
2006-08-28 09:52:24 · answer #3 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is still going as a project. However, all the tests have ended in failure. They just can't make it work. They always miss the missiles...
2006-08-28 22:00:30 · answer #4 · answered by Matt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there's been spin offs from it - the big laser they were building is still used for research isn't it? Even though it wasn't quite finished!! Another 60 billion down the drain...! lol
2006-08-28 09:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by bigscary_monster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait a minute, i watched something on Discovery about this just the other day and i'm sure the fundamentals of the project are still ongoing. Sorry to disappoint you all...
2006-08-29 10:12:06 · answer #6 · answered by simplymajik 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The cold war ended so nobody saw the point in spending money on such crap, plus HEL's dont work that well anyway and space based weapons are illegal under internaltional law.
2006-08-28 10:23:26 · answer #7 · answered by graeme b 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just talking about it broke the Russans. The technology never existed at the time. I bet Reagan was good at poker, too.
2006-08-28 09:50:07 · answer #8 · answered by randyrich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It went the way of the Republic.
2006-08-28 19:30:13 · answer #9 · answered by Sleuth! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't work, so they kept throwing tax money down that rathole and still are to this very day.
2006-08-28 14:58:54 · answer #10 · answered by Keith P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋