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US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

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Re: US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

Lammy wrote: post #293

Relevant: - USAF Directed Energy Directorate home page during the years 1999–2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060831035044/http://www.de.afr... - USAF Directed Energy Directorate home page during the years 2009–2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160428181404/http://www.kirtla... - LASER Effects Test Facility fact sheet from 2002 showing a 50-kilowatt CO² LASER setting a test target on fire: https://web.archive.or…

Lame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casaba-Howitzer would 'Rock the Casbah' even more.

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

WillAdams wrote: post #144

C.J. Cherryh has a memorable quote on this in her _Downbelow Station_. >They were armed, the swift exploration ships, as they had always been, venturing as they did into the unknown; but now they were used in a new way, to visit stations and pull them into line. That was bitterest of all, that the crews of the probe ships, who had been the heroes of the Beyond, became the Company enforcers.

But then came evil communistic Cyteen, spoiling the plan, with cloned AZIs, evil space Nazis. Supporting the Alliance of Merchants at Downbelow. Damn & Woe!

How exactly that came to be (from Earth-Company side) was expanded a little bit, as sort of a prequel in Heavy Time(1991) and Hellburner(1992), and later again in Alliance Rising(2019) and Alliance Unbound(2024) from the POV of the affected stations in the so called Hinder Stars(the first to be explored by slower than light ships from the Earth), made obsolete by FTL later on, because of more direct routes to Downbelow and further into Cyteen territory.

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Post by ChrisRR »

nomel wrote: post #245
sgustard wrote: post #224

Reagan and Gorbachev came within inches of abolishing nuclear weapons, but the sticking point was the US would not back away from building space weapons. As long as warmongers are in control we will continue to live in danger and fear.

> As long as warmongers are in control we will continue to live in danger and fear. Can you expand on your solution to world peace?

You don't have to have a solution to recognise that there's a problem

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Post by grafmax »

nomel wrote: post #245
sgustard wrote: post #224

Reagan and Gorbachev came within inches of abolishing nuclear weapons, but the sticking point was the US would not back away from building space weapons. As long as warmongers are in control we will continue to live in danger and fear.

> As long as warmongers are in control we will continue to live in danger and fear. Can you expand on your solution to world peace?

Cooperative deescalation is the right direction.

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Post by grafmax »

SubmarineClub wrote: post #316
Revanche1367 wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many wars has China started in the last century?

Very convenient of you to not include what China is doing in Nepal, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and on the Indian border. And if China hadn’t stuck its dick into the Korean War, the whole peninsula would probably be as prosperous as the south.

Let's pretend US sanctions have had nothing to do with N Korean prosperity.

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Post by gverrilla »

sejje wrote: post #132
ciconia wrote: post #131

Why spend money on healthcare when you can spend it on being able to annihilate any country on earth?

America spends more % of its GDP than France on healthcare.

That probably shows how corrupt and inneficient USA is.

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Post by tonymet »

ChrisRR wrote: post #373
nomel wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As long as warmongers are in control we will continue to live in danger and fear. Can you expand on your solution to world peace?

You don't have to have a solution to recognise that there's a problem

Yeah you do. If you’re not offering a better way, you’re only moaning.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

moffkalast wrote: post #306
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> SpaceX satellites are doing about 1000 collision avoidance maneuvers every single day Genuine question: how many avoidance maneouvres does maritime traffic execute in the open ocean?

Debris from a collision on water won't spread out into millions of floating pieces that speed around faster than a bullet, ripping random ships on the other side of the world to shreds.

> spread out into millions of floating pieces that speed around faster than a bullet, ripping random ships on the other side of the world to shreds

This isn't how debris clouds work. The most-complex ones occur when entirely separate orbits collide were you get an X-shaped (versus cylndricla or conic) debris cloud. But the energies of the collision inputs sharply curtail the orbits and places in said orbits the debris fragments can generally reach.

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Post by mars-or_wars »

thenthenthen wrote: post #325
mars-or_wars wrote: post #182

It's Golden Dome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...

Ah so thats the reason behind the ‘datacenters in space’ headlines some time ago

Yes, also Space-based solar power, it has always been developed as a directed energy weapon in space.

History of these cover stories goes back to the L5 Society and the Mars Society.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power

Also see Michael D. Griffin and his history with Elon Musk

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