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I am nostalgic for days when resisting militarization of space seemed possible, before the "US Space Force".
by jrochkind1 4y ago
I am nostalgic for days when resisting militarization of space seemed possible, before the "US Space Force".
- MrZongle2 4y agoGo read up on the Soviet Almaz station from the 1970s, and reconcile that with the Space Force from the 2020s.
- Someone 4y agoFor the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz#Defense_measures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz#Defense_measures
- blamazon 4y agoAh, you mean those halcyon days when China blew up a satellite in 2007 to demonstrate its anti-satellite military capabilities and caused a huge debris field? https://swfound.org/media/9550/chinese_asat_fact_sheet_updated_2012.pdf https://swfound.org/media/9550/chinese_asat_fact_sheet_updat...
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoSpace Force is just an org chart change. There is nothing new that wasn't already being done before.
- BitwiseFool 4y agoThere was never a point in time where spaceflight wasn't militarized to some degree. Even France has a space force. The US Space Force isn't some lurch towards militarism, it's a glorified bureaucratic reshuffling of what the DoD was already doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_forces,_units,_and_formations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_forces,_units,_a...
- jrochkind1 4y agoThey used to have at least pretend they weren't doing it, because there was popular demand to avoid it. I miss those days. When we believed this was possible, and there was demand for it, hope for it, and it was a real topic for international treaties, and governments had to figure out how to do it anyway. I'm not talking about 2007, but earlier. The evidence of that period is in the OP, that's the era he's talking about. Now nobody hopes for anything but forever war everywhere.
- hoseja 4y agoI am nostalgic for when some tribes of hunter-gatherers in middle east presumably resisted militarization.