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It doesn't take a lot of imagination to realize that whoever builds a military moonbase gains the ability to target and destroy any place on earth. No superpowe
by gmueckl 2y ago
It doesn't take a lot of imagination to realize that whoever builds a military moonbase gains the ability to target and destroy any place on earth. No superpower wants to be threatened from space in that way.
- baggy_trough 2y agoI guess it requires more imagination than I have, because I don't understand what a military moonbase gets you.
- kasey_junk 2y agoLunar PX
- baggy_trough 2y agoand what is that?
- kasey_junk 2y agoCheap consumer goods ON. THE. MOON!
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> whoever builds a military moonbase gains the ability to target and destroy any place on earth By turning the 20- to 60-minute flight time of an ICBM into a three-day trip? What?! This is like people with zero knowledge of orbital mechanics getting uppity about nukes in orbit.
- gmueckl 2y agoEven if it was possible to evacuate a big city in three days, it would still be a valuable target.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Even if it was possible to evacuate a big city in three days, it would still be a valuable target By that logic there is military value to staging nukes to attack Earth on Alpha Centauri. You can launch more payload quicker from Earth, all without giving your enemy a polite three-day heads up that they should get around to wiping down their interceptors and nuking you back before cocktail hour. There is no established value to a military base on the Moon, certainly not as it pertains to Earth directly. We didn’t sign the OST because of fears about lunar bombardment, we signed it because we feared teams trying to stake out conflicting claims in space starting a war on Earth. (See: China and America racing for the edge of Shackleton Crater.)