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What makes you think that it would be possible to invade a Moon base, or hack it anonymously? We’ve gone past sci-fi here and into fantasy.
by cfadvan 8y ago
What makes you think that it would be possible to invade a Moon base, or hack it anonymously? We’ve gone past sci-fi here and into fantasy.
- ben_w 8y agoFirst line of the story, “…The first trillionaire will be made in space”. At that scale, do you think it isn’t worth privately funding some mercenaries and your own BFR clone (or even Saturn V if the BFR isn’t copyable for whatever reason) for an incredibly hostile takeover of any infrastructure placed on the moon? And that’s Earth launch where it would be obvious who was behind it. If the same wealth leads to significant numbers of people going up, they don’t need anything like that kind of propulsion to do what has happened a thousand times before on land and sea, in the general area of strikes, secession, and mutiny. As for hacking being possible, that’s just the observation that basically everything is hackable. Even things that were given as examples of clueless parents fretting over nothing when I was a teen, such as making JPEG files execute when opened, turned out possible due to exploitable bugs.
- cfadvan 8y agoThe issue isn’t just “is it possible” given your formulation, it’s “is it possible to do anonymously?”
- ben_w 8y agoAh, I see. Well, almost. Plausible deniability is good enough for direct launch from the ground, but answering your question would require me to know a lot of (I hope) classified information about the national security of multiple nations. So I don’t know. However, my main focus was supposed to be other people who are “legitimately” in space, because of the aforementioned trillion dollars, and of hacking. Because both hacking and mutiny/secession haves happened lots already, even in situations where one might expect them not to.