• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Everyone thought space weapons would like Star Wars planes shooting eachother. Turns out it’s a bunch of satellites pointing down at the earth with nukes.

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    7 months ago

    The Security Council resolution drafted by Russia rivaled one backed by the U.S. and Japan that failed last month. The rival drafts focused on different types of weapons, with the U.S. and Japan specifying weapons of mass destruction. The Russian draft discussed all types of weapons.

    Why is the US so keen to allow conventional weapons in space?

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      7 months ago

      The plan is already to decimate moon settlers with nuclear meltdowns.

      Really highlights how fucking dumb the elite are.

      It’s not like one side of the moon is always facing the sun, which has been the chief argument against solar panels for decades and decades (that being: the sun goes down and then solar panels dont generate, so an electric grid that is mostly used at night isnt feasable).

      • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 months ago

        One side of the moon is NOT always facing the sun. One side of the moon is always facing the EARTH. The moon rotates on its axis at a rate of one rotation per orbit around the Earth.

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        7 months ago

        “It’s not like one side of the moon is always facing the sun,”

        You’re right, it’s nothing like that at all.

      • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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        7 months ago

        The moon is not tidally locked with the sun. Also the viable landing sites on the moon are tiny. There’s so much that’s difficult about the moon for settlement and solar power viability is actually one of them.

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      They want the ability to shoot down other countries’ satellites when they go to war with them. Things like disabling communication satellites and GPS (or Russia’s equivalent, GLONASS).

      Kessler Syndrome? Never heard of it.

      • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        When has ruining the world for everyone else ever stopped the usa before? :(

        There really seems to be a lot of “If not us, nobody” in the command structure of that military cult empire.