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You don't think it's a pretty big leap from political pressure (aka what all countries do to each other all the time) to sabotage, a literal act of war and some
by PJDK 10y ago
You don't think it's a pretty big leap from political pressure (aka what all countries do to each other all the time) to sabotage, a literal act of war and something that would, if discovered, at the very least put Nato into serious jeopardy?
- pawadu 10y agono, in this case I don't think it is a huge leap.
- dajohnson89 10y agofor mankind?
- dTal 10y agoNah. Especially not after Stuxnet.
- PJDK 10y agoBut that was targeted at Iran, this would be targeted at the majority of Nato. Edited to add: also, the fact that Stuxnet was discovered would be good reason to think you wouldn't attempt this. You'd need to be bullet proof certain that it would never be discovered.
- johansch 10y agoIt wouldn't have to be the US. It could also be Russia or China (perhaps less likely).
- VLM 10y agoThe sabotage doesn't have to be James Bond shooting a PPK into a wiring harness or dumping a test tube of mystery onto clock circuit boards. The Americans spent a decade and a lot of money on the first gen system in the 80s (we're on like the forth or fifth gen of GPS sats now) and the sabotage could be as simple as making it a classified state secret that mounting the physics package such that the electrodes are vertical causes microfractures in the physics package due to launch vehicle pogo resulting in 6 month lifetime on orbit, max. Or maybe mounting the physics package horizontally. Or it was spin stabilization that killed it or ... Or you thought kapton would be a great plastic film for high voltage high temperature insulation for the physics package but (mumble mumble secret squirrel stuff here) as documented in classified air force memo #classified, insert finger wagging here oh no you can't get more than 6 months lifetime on orbit shouldda used teflon (or vice versa) It could be as simple as a pdf that should have been posted to arxiv.org about some engineering peculiarity of Rb cells getting classified and buried. Maybe because it cost the US government a billion bucks to learn it the hard way back in the 80s.
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- PJDK 10y agoThose things aren't impossible, but also I don't see how any of those things class as "sabotage". Facebook didn't sabotage Google+ by not revealing to them how to make a successful Facebook.