4 ms·
Goodbye international treaties on the peaceful use of space.
by tehjoker 7y ago
Goodbye international treaties on the peaceful use of space.
- Rebelgecko 7y agoThe Space Force isn't going to do anything that the Air Force hasn't been doing for decades. Operating a GPS satellite isn't in violation of the OST. Neither is operating reconnaissance satellites or putting actual (non WMD) weapons in space.
- tehjoker 7y agoI dunno, you're right this has been going on a long time, but I feel like the creation of a new branch means operations will intensify and get more "creative" over time.
- meddlepal 7y agoThe militarization of space was going to happen eventually no matter what. It's a necessary precursor to colonization but also national security as the cost of access to space plummets.
- okusername 7y agoSeveral countries have shown the capability of destroying satellites, not to speak of spy satellites and gps, and the fact that the spaceshuttle and its military sibling was designed to scoop up satellites and bring them back to earth. Space was never not militarized.
- foolfoolz 7y agoit’s already happened we’re just making it more official
- tehjoker 7y agoI really dispute the idea that it's "inevitable", it's just that we live in an era where the standing army and intensifying competition between nations is the way things work. It really is not something that is ordained by god. Look at the Atlantic Charter and other similar documents that could have set the world on a different path if they had been taken seriously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter
- sdinsn 7y agoThe SF's creation doesn't change anything.