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The responses seem to fall along the lines of 'it can't deliver a lot of warheads', but I think it's more for the scenario of delivering a single nuke clandesti

by BMc2020 4y ago

The responses seem to fall along the lines of 'it can't deliver a lot of warheads', but I think it's more for the scenario of delivering a single nuke clandestinely. Some terrorists in Absurdistan are trying to make a bomb but they accidentally blow themselves up? Too bad so sad.

Sebb767 4y ago
If it weren't for the fact that the nuke came from space, which is probably easily noticeable for the major players. Also, the brute force of a nuke doesn't really combine well with subtile operations. Unless you want to 'clandestinely' wipe out a whole city.
meepmorp 4y ago
That’s as even more ridiculous scenario. It’s incredibly high risk, militarily and politically, for no real benefit over other ways of dealing with such targets. You’re entitled to your opinion, but your reasoning is nonsensical.
- BMc2020 4y ago
  yes, so very nonsensical" *Deployment of X-37B space plane For all its features and achievements, the primary objectives of the X-37B have remained largely classified during its existence, which has now been for more than a decade. The secrecy over the purposes of the space plane has even prompted Russia to say that apart from carrying out surveillance, the space plane could be harboring nuclear warheads. While the mystery over this remains unresolved...* https://interestingengineering.com/us-military-orbital-record-x-37b https://interestingengineering.com/us-military-orbital-recor...
- BMc2020 4y ago
  You have to put yourself in the mindset of people who think big, are completely amoral and money is no object. A couple examples: There's encryption in use the NSA can't crack (SSL). So they..record the entire internet because someday they may be able to crack it. Sounds impossible, but they do. I don't know how many racks in how many data centers it takes, but money is no object. Create an entire war on drugs to..keep a few percent of the black population from voting. Sounds like evil on a scale that's impossible to believe. I'm sure your a decent person, which is why you discount how evil evil can get.

Sebb767 4y ago

If it weren't for the fact that the nuke came from space, which is probably easily noticeable for the major players. Also, the brute force of a nuke doesn't really combine well with subtile operations. Unless you want to 'clandestinely' wipe out a whole city.

meepmorp 4y ago

That’s as even more ridiculous scenario. It’s incredibly high risk, militarily and politically, for no real benefit over other ways of dealing with such targets. You’re entitled to your opinion, but your reasoning is nonsensical.

BMc2020 4y ago
yes, so very nonsensical" *Deployment of X-37B space plane For all its features and achievements, the primary objectives of the X-37B have remained largely classified during its existence, which has now been for more than a decade. The secrecy over the purposes of the space plane has even prompted Russia to say that apart from carrying out surveillance, the space plane could be harboring nuclear warheads. While the mystery over this remains unresolved...* https://interestingengineering.com/us-military-orbital-record-x-37b https://interestingengineering.com/us-military-orbital-recor...
BMc2020 4y ago
You have to put yourself in the mindset of people who think big, are completely amoral and money is no object. A couple examples: There's encryption in use the NSA can't crack (SSL). So they..record the entire internet because someday they may be able to crack it. Sounds impossible, but they do. I don't know how many racks in how many data centers it takes, but money is no object. Create an entire war on drugs to..keep a few percent of the black population from voting. Sounds like evil on a scale that's impossible to believe. I'm sure your a decent person, which is why you discount how evil evil can get.