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They've taught the world that mankind's hopes for keeping space a place of peace are over and it's now another theater of war. Guess we knew the era of peace in
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
They've taught the world that mankind's hopes for keeping space a place of peace are over and it's now another theater of war. Guess we knew the era of peace in space would eventually end but still held out hope that it could hold out longer.
- simonh 4y agoThey’ve taught the world that anti-satellite capabilities are futile. Such weapons cost several orders of magnitude more than a Starlink sat, and there will soon be tens of thousands of Starlink sats. Once Starship is online there will be tens of thousands of any kind of sat you like. Sure that can and will include military anti-sat sats, but the economics of that just don’t work. Targeting such systems is incredibly complicated, time consuming and expensive, there are going to be many redundant target sats, and a replacement of the destroyed sat can be on orbit in a day or two. It will be like using Patriot missiles to shoot down off the shelf camera drones. Sure you can do it, but there’s just no benefit.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoIt’s another arm of MAD, which has kept the peace far more than anything to date. https://images.app.goo.gl/FNeYQK8B6T1k9Dpp7 https://images.app.goo.gl/FNeYQK8B6T1k9Dpp7
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