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Sometimes I despair of humans, sticking all our eggs into a Crowdstrike basket, or billions of people condemned to wars and poverty, and then, we go and do thin
by lifeisstillgood 2y ago
Sometimes I despair of humans, sticking all our eggs into a Crowdstrike basket, or billions of people condemned to wars and poverty, and then, we go and do things like “hey we can measure the freaking Sun’s solar storms from actual space vehicles we have put into orbit around this planet”
We have come a long way from James Watt thinking “you know we could keep some of that hot gas” - it’s not all to do with the free energy boost we have been digging out of the ground. We do have our moments.
Just less wars and more co-operation please.
- kidme5 2y agothe sad thing is Starlink satellites have a significant impact on one of the scariest human threats-- nuclear war. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8tgf79/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
- lifeisstillgood 2y agoSo that link seems to be suggesting that US funding for space exploration and NASA has a significant nuclear weapons component. I mean my kids are covering this in their History GCSEs. It’s not a secret. And if you believe in / agree with escalation management strategy it’s a good thing (unless you think humans should all unite together and turn swords into ploughshares which I do agree with, just hard to get from Here to there, but would love to see it)
- wongarsu 2y agoI think the core is how we stand towards missile defense. During the Cold War the prevailing opinion was that mutually assured destruction was the best strategy. Missile defense undermines that strategy and was thus treated as a worse offense than building first-strike weapons. Now the threat landscape has shifted. There is a closing window of opportunity where the US is the sole superpower and could get away with deploying such a system without much pushback. Whether it's a good idea is debatable.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoWe already have the X37 for unconventional nuke delivery. There is no need for a conspiracy with SpaceX for existing capabilities.