Pentagon is growing more comfortable talking about offensive weapons in space

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/spacecom-boss-space-fires/

by belter • 2 years ago

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coding1232• 2 years ago

Great, the only way we'll be able to even try to stop a nuclear Armageddon scenario is through weapons in space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIjy4K04yGg

quohort2• 2 years ago

Are you being sarcastic? Historically, programs like SDI have had a destabilizing effect on nuclear war due to the dynamics of MAD

coding1232• 2 years ago

Absolutely not. War is stopped by having the strongest military. The current global trend of letting everyone do anything they want is working out so well.

quohort2• 2 years ago

It's true that china has been developing anti-satellite weapons recently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASAT_program_of_China). To respond in kind with "kinetic" weapons as mentioned sets a dangerous precedent for kessler syndrome in the same way that nuclear proliferation does for nuclear winter.

wumeow• 2 years ago

China has no problem creating kessler syndrome on its own as we’ve seen recently.

rhelz• 2 years ago

I can't think of anything more depressing than bringing war to outer space.

The international space station was supposed to be a way the U.S. and Russia, and other countries, could grow closer through cooperation and a shared spirit of adventure and discovery.

If we are ever to have, say, fusion-powered spaceships to colonize the solar system, we'll have to leave war behind. A fusion-powered spaceship is just a very controllable hydrogen bomb. If we ever want to have hundreds or thousands of them traveling around in the solar system, we'll have to figure out some way to absolutely prohibit them from being used as weapons.

The kinds of energies needed to travel between planets is more than enough energy to destroy anything faster than we can create it.

Pentagon is growing more comfortable talking about offensive weapons in space

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