Israelis Want Laser Defense, Suing Government For It

So, here's the article. It's an article on slashdot. Which is commenting on a wired blog article. Which is commenting on something that happened. Alas, the daisy chain continues.

So, the gist of it is, the Israeli government developed a moderately successful laser defence system that apparently runs on harmful chemicals. Then they scrapped it, possibly because it was moderately successful and ran on harmful chemicals.

So now some residents of some town in Israel are suing for laser protection.

They're apparently unaware of the fact that its moderately successful and runs on harmful chemicals. But hey, when your town continuously gets bombed, I'm sure you'd want a reprieve too.

Still, bothering the government about the laser is probably not the way to go.

Here are some crazy other possibilities.

Move the town underground
Make peace with the terrorists
Bomb them back as a "warning."
Make friends with China and have them do something
Send jets to intercept the rockets
Abandon the town

Not all of those (or necessarily any of them) are possible, but they're about as likely to happen as this laser defense thing.