I'm going to take the opportunity to make a prediction (time stamped and archived) That my comments about governments banding together, or acting unilaterally, will make every attempt to deprive me of my space based "you don't get to screw with me, Ray Cannon". Of this I am very certain.

"But we're afraid... for our people/livestock... yeah yeah, that it. So you can't have one"

Out of range on the Moon or Mars or in another Solar System... how far do I have to be for you to never lay a claim on this individual human being, huh?

I already know where this argument leads. I'll be negotiating for what level of security I am allowed to provide myself with the permissions determined by some collective with their interests, that may not overlap with mine.

Never let a really really good planet freezing/melting/destroying crisis go to waste.

Am I the only that sees how this is going to be used?... I doubt it.

> Russian space expert calls for emergency asteroid deflection program <

Won't happen - until it's too late.  Our piss-ant world 'leaders' (Amerika's included) are too concerned with fighting for control over a few acres of dirt.   

Yada Yada Yada... the bottomline arguments from governments will be the arming of space with a capability of destroying "it's not a moon... its a _great big_ space station" or asteroid or Alien Space Fleet or or or. The moment you hear the governments and their mouth pieces talking about who can and who can not have these "powers" in space then you know once again that they wish to have the monopoly of force over the entire universe. Well, 'we're going to space,... and government is not invited'.

Oh... and I'm taking my ZeroPoint powered blah blah blah SUN Cannon with me.