star wars
it's exciting to see more, and more destructive, technology all the time. explosives and fireworks always draw a crowd. but do we need more video-game wars, sanitized and distant (for whoever shoots the high tech)? does security rest on the illusion that you have, at any one time, more bang than the other guy, in a permanent game of leapfrog? without the oil of the north sea, norway would not have had more than forest products to finance arms like this. that oil is now running out. within a few years, this dandy rocket will be obsolete.