Now China has given us a new demonstration of an actual and lethally accurate threat. But I don’t believe that America has waken up to this concept yet. So take a moment to consider some of the implications of this:

- A large hurricane is found to be bearing down towards a heavily populated region in the country. As folks are awaiting the latest tracking updates, suddenly there is no communication from the weather satellite.

- Our technically trained and dependent troops are on the battlefield in the midst of action, when their GPS and computer links go dead.

- A nation, jealous of our most prized satellites such as the Hubble ST or the ISS, does not want to hear of another wonderous discovery, and so its kill satellite “accidentelly” malfunctions…

- After many rounds of target practicing, a deadly zone of high speed debris of shrapnel exists in orbit, that puts any astronaut’s life at risk if they try to fly through the zone.

We have a U.N. Space treaty that prohibts putting any weapons in space. What is the penalities for violating this treaty? And when does the folks of the technically dependent U.S. begin to realize that a satellite is more than just a piece of robotic hardware in orbit?