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I watch CappyArmy on YouTube. Was shocked recently to learn that Russia had widely deployed StarLink in Ukraine to get orders to the front lines. Recently this was cut off suddenly, with an immediate counter attack by Ukraine... along with Ukraine trolling the shit out of Russia frontline operatives; offering fake "recover your Starlink connection" websites and texts, scamming them out of their account credentials. G…
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The dual-use problem with Starlink is really just the most visible version of something happening across the military. Phones with civilian GPS chips are increasingly used alongside dedicated mil-spec hardware, simply because the commercial stuff is more usable and gets updated faster. The real strategic question isn't whether Starlink can be weaponized - of course it can - it's what happens when military operations…
> The vendor becomes a strategic chokepoint, and there's no precedent for how that plays out in a peer conflict. If you turn commercial infrastructure into a military tool, you put it within the firsts rows of targets' list to dismantle in case of conflict. Given the large number of Starlink's satellites, you will inevitably have to use their own space debris to dismantle them, which will turn the LEO orbit inoperabl…
Is this true? I understand that they deorbit without power in up to 5 years. So their debris would decay in essentially the same time.
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Some are doing worse than others, and China is doing close to the worst.
China is doing much better than the West. The only thing keeping populations from imploding here is the constant migration from the third world.
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"[O]pen sympathy towards fascists"? What do you mean by that?
Probably refering to his nazi salute, and support for far-right neo-nazi groups like AfD in Germany
The "Nazi salute" was just a cringy rendition of the "my heart goes out to you" thing. I can find dozens of other famous people doing something similar.
And the AfD isn't a neo-Nazi group.
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SpaceX already does geo-lock them to an extend. But the terminals are exported to so many countries that any meaningful controls are impossible.
The terminal knows where it is at all times.
This makes it a very, very dirty terminal.
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They are supporting and encouraging Russia’s war against Ukraine. They also provide diplomatic cover and economic support for the Iranian regime. They promote nationalist radicalism and harassment of nonconformists on foreign campuses. They ruthlessly suppress dissent, or even just non Han ethic identity and implement racist eugenic policies in their regions. The comment you replied to referred to Taiwan as existing…
> They also provide diplomatic cover and economic support for the Iranian regime I can't believe some people can still argue in good faith the US and israel are the good guys, do you have a ounce of self reflection? You kidnap presidents, kill entire families of political leaders, talk about them like they are dogs (see the latest white house propaganda videos or Hegseth speeches), and then you come here to argue Chi…
I didn’t say anything about what China is planning, I pointed out things they are doing right now.
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> The vendor becomes a strategic chokepoint, and there's no precedent for how that plays out in a peer conflict. If you turn commercial infrastructure into a military tool, you put it within the firsts rows of targets' list to dismantle in case of conflict. Given the large number of Starlink's satellites, you will inevitably have to use their own space debris to dismantle them, which will turn the LEO orbit inoperabl…
> which will turn the LEO orbit inoperable (for centuries). Is this true? I understand that they deorbit without power in up to 5 years. So their debris would decay in essentially the same time.
It would be a cluster of successive collisions in a short period of time. With each collision, each destroyed satellite would produce hundreds of thousands of microfragments at increased speeds, with would make them reach different orbits.
The microfragments at lower heights of LEO would decrease their speed due the atmosphere within months to a few years, and the ones at higher heights of LEO from decades to centuries, but this ones, at time they loses such speed they would decrease the height of their orbits and sweep across their new orbiting area (like a net/mesh), their kinetic energy would keep being able to destroy or damage what they cross.
If it were done it would be like a planned Kessler Syndrome event, and LEO is currently saturated with satellites.
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They are supporting and encouraging Russia’s war against Ukraine. They also provide diplomatic cover and economic support for the Iranian regime. They promote nationalist radicalism and harassment of nonconformists on foreign campuses. They ruthlessly suppress dissent, or even just non Han ethic identity and implement racist eugenic policies in their regions. The comment you replied to referred to Taiwan as existing…
The Usa does similar things across the world. Here I swapped for the Usa. > They are supporting and encouraging Israel’s war against Iran and Palestine. They also provide diplomatic cover and economic support for the Israeli regime. They promote nationalist radicalism and harassment of nonconformists on foreign campuses (Columbia protests). They ruthlessly suppress dissent (you must support the troops, using chemical…
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Why not? Assuming you want one of the sides to win, why would you not want your side to use every (ethical) means available to do that?
War is not ethical.