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The Pentagon Has a Plan to Arm Satellites With Lasers to Shoot Down Missiles. It’s Insane.
SPACE FARCE
‘It’s not against the laws of physics,’ said one expert, ‘but might as well be in terms of difficulty and possibility of success.’
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