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"Technology exists" and "technology will be trivially deployable by any terrorist" are two different things. ICBMs have existed for a long time, as have nuclea
by arp242 3y ago
"Technology exists" and "technology will be trivially deployable by any terrorist" are two different things.
ICBMs have existed for a long time, as have nuclear weapons. Terrorists cannot "trivially" deploy them.
These kind of extremely powerful magnets will not be trivial, and doing anything in space even less so.
- Yizahi 3y agoWhile they are not ICBM, the mid range, nuke capable, ballistic missiles are used daily against Ukraine and Israel cities. Imagine that these two countries had domed cities on Mars. Even a single rocket would kill whole population immediately.
- arp242 3y agoThe small dingy rockets fired by Hamas are utterly incomparable to ICBMs. It's not the same thing at all. Theoretically almost everything is "nuke capable" and that means nothing in this context. You were talking about the "total destruction" of the ecosystem on Earth, because "throwing space rocks" will be "trivial for any terrorist cell". Talk about hypothetical rockets fired on hypothetical domes on a hypothetical Mars colony bears absolutely zero relation to that.