The more I hear about this story, the more convinced I am that the govt. may well be using this as a trial run to see if maybe there's a chance in hell that they could shoot down some future object that constitutes a real & present danger, as opposed to the one in a galzillion chance that this space junk presents. Frankly, if that's the case, I'm all for it...God knows our military can always use a little target practice.

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