August 11th, 2004  
silent driller
Tribuni Angusticlavii
 
I think the US was testing a space based defense system at one point. It was designed to shoot down ICBM's in space by throwing out mini missles to blow them up over the atmosphere. It's a bit foggy to my brain, but I think I saw it on PBS(Nova).
 
 
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