Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you describe in greater detail what you're imagining?
Not for free and not in the span of a post, no. I’d love to do it over 6 months for 5 million dollars with a team of 6
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine harder.
Can you describe in greater detail what you're imagining?
Admittedly, it's a dangerous plan for all of humanity. I've considered it Musk's win-condition for this whole insane, destructive wager he's made with his reputation, businesses, and wealth on the table.
I think it's why the neonazi regime aren't afraid of plunging the world into economic catastrophe and setting the conditions for WW3. They believe their plan can't fail. Regrettably, it seems like we'll get to find out.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for free and not in the span of a post, no. I’d love to do it over 6 months for 5 million dollars with a team of 6
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you describe in greater detail what you're imagining?
It's mostly just "Golden Dome," Trump's plan to give Musk a global constellation of (potentially nuclear-armed) "anti-ballistic missile" weaponized satellites. I'm sure there's other facets of orbital warfare fantasies involved (X-37B's capabilities for instance) but Golden Dome is Musk's attempt to "disrupt" global defense by implementing the SDI plans of the 80s and 90s (aka SpaceX). Admittedly, it's a dangerous pl…
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
Not at all. I believe the US government has already studied this, published the outcome, and probably knows anything I or most teams of experts could. I think it’s in a drawer somewhere labeled, “For use in case of war with China under US dictator” but if we need to pretend it’s new information I’m offering my services.
The answer to that question unfortunately appears to be 'no.'
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you describe in greater detail what you're imagining?
It's mostly just "Golden Dome," Trump's plan to give Musk a global constellation of (potentially nuclear-armed) "anti-ballistic missile" weaponized satellites. I'm sure there's other facets of orbital warfare fantasies involved (X-37B's capabilities for instance) but Golden Dome is Musk's attempt to "disrupt" global defense by implementing the SDI plans of the 80s and 90s (aka SpaceX). Admittedly, it's a dangerous pl…
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not at all. I believe the US government has already studied this, published the outcome, and probably knows anything I or most teams of experts could. I think it’s in a drawer somewhere labeled, “For use in case of war with China under US dictator” but if we need to pretend it’s new information I’m offering my services.
The question isn't whether or not the US has the technical means sitting somewhere in a drawer to do this, the question is whether or not they have the industrial capacity and political will to do this in the time frame needed to avert losing dozens of ships and hundreds of aircraft as well as the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers. The answer to that question unfortunately appears to be 'no.'
If there were a plan sitting in a drawer somewhere that showed the US colonizing mainland China at the cost of half a million US military personnel I'd be sure that plan accidentally leaked.
Or a fake version of it that cost 5 million and took six months
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
The question isn't whether or not the US has the technical means sitting somewhere in a drawer to do this, the question is whether or not they have the industrial capacity and political will to do this in the time frame needed to avert losing dozens of ships and hundreds of aircraft as well as the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers. The answer to that question unfortunately appears to be 'no.'
If we've gamed out who's going to win and we know it is US, why would we keep that information a secret? If there were a plan sitting in a drawer somewhere that showed the US colonizing mainland China at the cost of half a million US military personnel I'd be sure that plan accidentally leaked. Or a fake version of it that cost 5 million and took six months
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#29This is actually a good thing (not that anyone responsible had the faintest idea what would happen). When they invade Taiwan we’ll have this sort of thing going on so we’ll need to know where our military supply chain bonks.