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Even if it was possible to evacuate a big city in three days, it would still be a valuable target.
by gmueckl 2y ago
Even 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.)