Holy shit. We are all going to die. No doubt about it.
Now, space is cool. It is the unknown. It has been the inspiration for millions of people, past and present. Astrophysicist, astronomers, science fiction writers, artists, geeks and nerds everywhere never really felt comfortable here on Earth. They all wanted to go into space for exploration and maybe salvation. It has been a place of learning and awe. I have been completely enthralled with the Opprotunity and Spirit missions to mars. The nerd in me gets excited about things like soil being stuck to the wheels of Opprotunity. Is it mud? We don't know! That would be awesome. Who would have ever thought that something that might be mud would be exciting to me.
However, our government is looking into spending a total of $145.4 million in research to fuck it all up. /. (Slashdot) had an article posted on the 20th about the air force's plans for war in space. The article is on Wired News and can be found in full here. Here's an excerpt from that article that kinda gives you an idea as to what they are wanting to do:
"As we look to the future, space is where our adversaries are looking to cut us off," Kucharek said. "We know from the attempted jamming of our GPS (global positioning system, which relies on satellites) during OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) that our enemies are going to try to deny us from using space."'
Earth, however, is the problem with the "Operation Obliteration" (my own name for it). If something were to happen, and it would, all kinds of problems would occur. Let's say a nuclear (that's noo-klee-er, Mr. Bush, Jeesey Chreesey, at least be able to pronounce the way you are going to kill us all) explosion or malfunction happens in "near-earth space". What are the happy times that are going to occur after that? Well, not too many. Not very nice out in nuclear winter. The earth's gravity wouldn't save us from the explosion in space. It would cause more problems I would think. More time to get into the atmosphere and cause us to grow extra appendages and stuff. It would suck everything to the earth.