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> You can't disconnect. You can't shoot it. Yes you can shoot them. The US has had this capability for a long time. Anti satellite missiles exist and they can
by warmwaffles 17d ago
> You can't disconnect. You can't shoot it.
Yes you can shoot them. The US has had this capability for a long time. Anti satellite missiles exist and they can be launched from an F-15 at it's highest altitude.
- bpodgursky 17d agoSpaceX has 11,000 satellites in orbit (growing rapidly) and the US never had more than a couple dozen anti satellite missiles, which could not reach satellites in geosynchronous orbit anyway.
- warmwaffles 17d agoWell if "kessler syndrome" is likely, you won't need many missiles. edit: what satellites are in geosynchronous orbit that are running AI workloads?
- bpodgursky 17d agoNone yet... we are talking about the next five years.
- palmotea 17d ago[dead]
- heaney-555 17d agoSpaceX's FFC application is for 1 million Starmind satellites.
- petilon 16d agoThat's if SpaceX AI doesn't hack into the systems that control this capability first. And this is why physical access is important, as depicted in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Betelbuddy 16d agoSpaceX AI will be busy generating child porn...