Defend Our Final Frontier: Keep Space for Peace

Interesting article, thanks for the information. Recently I learned that the government, specifically the Army has invested in the Halo 3 game & keeps information regarding the players as they progress in the game. This may affect many of your children as they become proficient @ this game as it helps the Army to focus on the most successful players of this game so they may recruit your children to help them in their domination through space. While I realize that a few of you reading may be considering this information to be coming from yet another "conspiracy freak" you may check out the investments into the production of the Halo 3 game to verify my facts. I read a book by Orson Scott Card more than 20 years ago that became a series he continued to write on through the years, I didn't realize until I began to work in a book store that he had continued the series - the book is titled "Ender's War". I never forgot the story as it was well written & seemed more than possible when he wrote it, but had not thought of it for quite some time; then I realized that several highschool teachers in my general area are now assigning the book as required reading. Originally I believed that seeing that as a "required reading assignment" was good just to save some of the students from some of the old standards that I always was grateful not be subjected to; after I learned of the Army's involvement with the Halo 3 game, I realized that it may have been a way for the teachers to warn their students of the possibilities regarding their participation in computer gaming. In the book "Ender's War" a very young boy is recruited to "play games" only to learn later that the games were much more real than he ever imagined. I don't care to give the plot up, but it does relate directly to the concept of "remote controlled war". For any people that may believe that the ramifications of these issues are imagined it a good book to suggest.
I keep wanting to believe that we may continue to learn enough to avert the consequences imagined by many authors regarding these issues & on many levels we have; - consider how many parts of 1984 haven't come true. However, it does seem that while we may avert some issues, we seem to be able to create new possibilities of yet even more dire consequences - hopefully this is yet another area where we may consider many of the consequences authors have dreamt up in their works & possibly avert issues like space deciding it needs to protect itself from the dangerous human race. Thanks again for your article & have a wonderful week, yer pal Mel Bell.

Thanks for the info on the army's investment in the Halo 3 game. I believe you, Mel, and I'd like to learn more about that. Also, that sounds like a very apt connection from this news story and the "Ender's War" novel. All this reminds me of how I cringe at the army's public relations days when little kids can visit the local base and climb into the cockpits and look through the target sightings of the big guns, all under the friendly watchful eye of men in camouflage. At the rate we're going, I sometimes wonder how much longer we'll have a world. But thanks for reading this and for your informative comment. You have a good week! Your friend, Billie

Thats interesting to know about the military investing funds in halo 3. Its really sad though that society puts so much devotion on investing in military technology that causes destruction when it could be invested more in peaceful means. Violent military means causes nothing but pains to the victims and families and leaves people bitter. The physical pain and mental pain has long term consequences as a result. No one wins in such an environment although people and countries like to claim they did win. The more the U.S. and its allies stay in Afganistan the more the people are going to lose faith in the U.S. Military and its allies. You can't keep useing violent means in a country and expect the civilians to accept it. After so long civilians are going to turn away and view the U.S. as more of a problem rather than a solution. Society needs to grow up as a whole and stop fighting one another.

Your comment makes so much sense to me. Thanks, elmiko.

thank you so much for this article, so helpful to know how the US military investment about Halo 3.

Thanks for the info

Thanks for the update BE. Keeping weapons out of space is an important part of our future; the less weapons we have in neutral places the better. Space is there to be explored; we should use it but well.

Thanks rroxas08, ChikoMatar, and Changez for reading and commenting.

Changez, expanding a bit on your comment, I saw an article yesterday entitled "The 15 Most Toxic Places to Live" and #15 on the list was "Earth's Orbit" with this accompanying text:

"Believe it or not, even space contains copious amounts of pollution. An estimated 4 million pounds of space debris — nuts, bolts, metal and carbon, even whole spacecraft — currently orbit the Earth, threatening satellites, communication and even the lives of our astronauts." The
accompanying photo from the European Space Agency is worth a visit in itself: http://bit.ly/2DYiFF

It's right for no one to invade or take ownership of space, it's for everyone..

Hi Billie
Wishful thinking but it already is! Do you remember when China shot down its own satellite? I wrote about it years ago numerous times but did you ever hear of the Assassins Mace? A nasty little surprise for the US? Pay particular attention to 4 and 5! Remember whoever owns space owns the future! at least to world powers. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HJ20Ad01.html

Hi Jim. I'm lucky that it was you who voiced the dissent I anticipated to this post because, as I've seen from you since getting to know you, you did it gently.

I refuse to believe that it is too late for the world to turn back from a path to certain destruction. "You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." (Lennon)

Thanks for the comment...and the link--I will read it with an open mind. Billie

hi

Hi Billie and thanks! No dissent I just wanted you to see how far along this unwanted space war reeally is. If you remember about a year back, there was a supposed satellite collision between a US and Russian satellite. That was no accident. Ceck out that link you will be floored. Whoever controls the satellites renders entire military's useless.and space junk means we are all trapped here. I wrote about it numerous times and we have been lied to about it but we have experienced this too. Ever hear of HAARP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program

Another thought provoking report, Billie. Unfortunately, I believe governments have and will continue to exploit space and any technology associated with it.

Or maybe I have just seen too many movies like Carl Segan's "Contact", where military interests trumps benevolence.

As far as I've seen, in the course of my short life, and from what I've read in limited scope, is that military interest usually trumps benevolence or science or the good things we all like to think about fondly.