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ITU regulations or more precisely spectrum they regulate is one of the most valuable and scarce resources today . Nations would will go to war if they are threa

ITU regulations or more precisely spectrum they regulate is one of the most valuable and scarce resources today . Nations would will go to war if they are threatened . Voyager itself is not economically valuable, but it a cultural symbol of American achievement like say Eiffel Tower in itself does not have value economically (apart from tourism ) but it is very big part of their identity so yeah plausible it would start a war .

tivert 2y ago
> ITU regulations or more precisely spectrum they regulate is one of the most valuable and scarce resources today . Nations would will go to war if they are threatened. They'd go to war if they're threatened, but a violation is ITU regulations isn't a sufficient threat. I mean, North Korea and South Korea occasionally shell each other (much worse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Yeonpyeong_bombardment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Yeonpyeong_bombardment), and no hot war has resulted. > Voyager itself is not economically valuable but it a cultural symbol of American achievement...it is very big part of their identity so yeah plausible it would start a war. I'm sorry, if you think that, you're in a bubble. Voyager is not a "very big part of [American] identity," it's a nearly-kaput space probe that science and science-adjacent geeks (a tiny minority) occasionally get enthusiastic about. The absolute worst that would happen if a nation state sabotaged it at this point, is the American government would send a strongly worded letter, and the saboteur's ambassador would be summoned for a tongue lashing. No one's would start a war over the sabotage, and if they did such a war would go down as one of the stupidest casus belli ever. FFS, no one would even have died. And no one's signing up to die in a war to avenge it. Would you volunteer to be sent to something like the meat-grinder of Eastern Ukraine, because a Voyager became incommunicado a few years early?

tivert 2y ago

> ITU regulations or more precisely spectrum they regulate is one of the most valuable and scarce resources today . Nations would will go to war if they are threatened. They'd go to war if they're threatened, but a violation is ITU regulations isn't a sufficient threat. I mean, North Korea and South Korea occasionally shell each other (much worse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Yeonpyeong_bombardment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Yeonpyeong_bombardment), and no hot war has resulted. > Voyager itself is not economically valuable but it a cultural symbol of American achievement...it is very big part of their identity so yeah plausible it would start a war. I'm sorry, if you think that, you're in a bubble. Voyager is not a "very big part of [American] identity," it's a nearly-kaput space probe that science and science-adjacent geeks (a tiny minority) occasionally get enthusiastic about. The absolute worst that would happen if a nation state sabotaged it at this point, is the American government would send a strongly worded letter, and the saboteur's ambassador would be summoned for a tongue lashing. No one's would start a war over the sabotage, and if they did such a war would go down as one of the stupidest casus belli ever. FFS, no one would even have died. And no one's signing up to die in a war to avenge it. Would you volunteer to be sent to something like the meat-grinder of Eastern Ukraine, because a Voyager became incommunicado a few years early?