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whoever can haul cheap cargo there reliably ,including military hardware ,then praise Elon and set blasters to stun!

• JabavuAdams 6y ago
  Space launch and space vehicles are very vulnerable. This means that any space launch company can be strong-armed by any nation state or even reasonably armed non-state actor unless they're defended by a nation-state.
  • traverseda 6y ago
    Only until they start being able to drop rocks on things... Giving a private company potential WMD's is a whole other question though.
    • JabavuAdams 6y ago
      Sure. If you can drop kinetic projectiles from orbit or higher, you don't need nukes. But you have to build a lot of infrastructure to either get that mass up there, or compel that mass to change momentum. One drone with a shaped charge could take out a fueled launch vehicle and make the bad unusable for an annoyingly long time. I hope that there are plans to defend against this.
    • __s 6y ago
      Dropping rocks on Earth to declare independence is the plot of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress