"start small and build up doesn’t work. Total cove age is the only way to ensure protection. That’s what makes systems like this ridiculous. Unless you have total coverage, you may as well not have anything at all, because it would be functionally useless.
Satellite self-defense systems are actually pretty efficient at protecting a satellite, and they don’t pose an undo risk to the rest of us in the ground.
But any kind of orbital missile defense system, is going to have to be inconceivably large and prohibitively expensive, just to reach a point of basic viability. The planet is huge. And considering that the kinds of attacks that systems like these are designed to prevent, will be traveling at orbital velocities…you need to have missile systems everywhere. If you don’t, then you won’t be able to “catch” the hostile missiles you’re trying to intercept.
That means potentially thousands, if not tens or even hundreds of thousands, of launch satellites in orbit. And we’re not talking about small satellites here. In order to accelerate to the kinds of speeds required to intercept an ICBM, these missiles will need a lot of fuel…or they’ll have to have even more of them in orbit, so that any path that ICBM takes will have at least one defense satellite in a position to passively intercept it.
Low to medium Earth orbit would have to be blanketed in these satellites. And that’s just to protect one country. If the US starts doing this…so will China. And Russia. And everyone else who’s afraid of these satellites will be used offensively as well as defensively. Because the same missiles that can potentially intercept an ICBM in flight, can also do an incredible amount of damage to a surface target, with little to no warning. They would be everywhere above us. All of us. And could just drop a missile directly down on any point below them.
This gets even more complicated, when you think about the satellite to satellite defenses required to defend each one of these launch platforms from each other. Logistically speaking, it turns into a cluster-fuck, really fast. You could potentially see billion dollar satellites getting shot out of the sky as soon as they reach orbit, and before they have a chance to reach their intended firing positions. How many times could you stand to lose them, before the cost of trying to send them up there became prohibitive? How much of your GDP would you be willing to spend in order to simply maintain that system?
I wonder what kind of kompromat Trump has on Rubio. It must be nasty, to have turned him into this Nazi robot version. Every time I see him now, he just looks miserable. Almost like someone is holding his dog hostage.
Lol! You don’t know what his “Golden Dome” is, huh? It’s basically the satellite defense system Reagan wanted to build back in the 80’s. Except he called the project “Star Wars”.
If they decide to build it, it will probably bankrupt the country, and still not work as intended. Even the most competent people wouldn’t be able to make this work…and we all know Trump only hires the most incompetent people, so…yeah. It’ll most likely get hacked on the 2nd day of operation, and used to wipe the US off the globe.
Extremely so.
Fragile little snowflake.
So did everyone just get to a point with AI, where they just said, “fuck it…close enough”, and started using it everywhere despite it still producing garbage results?
Anyone stupid enough to pay nearly $200k for that piece of crap, deserves to lose money.
Not to mention, it’s never going to happen.
This is why no one should take medical advice from him.
That’d be nice.
You’re hired. When’s the soonest you can start?
Ugh. There’s something even more pathetic about it being Elon Musk doing the cucking. That bar just hit the floor.
First of all…ew, that someone would actually marry Stephen Miller. She must hate herself, something fierce.
Second…anyone wanna bet she’s about to come out as Elmo’s latest baby mama?
So true, man. So true.
Holy fuck, these people are so stupid.
Wanna watch a man-baby throw a tantrum? Just call him a man-baby.
Lie detectors can’t determine the truth. They can only tell if you’re nervous about something. They monitor heart rate, breathing, skin temperature and perspiration levels. They can see when these factors change when asked specific questions, which may indicate that you are lying…but it’s really a matter of the kinds of questions they ask, and how your reactions are interpreted. They are not considered reliable.
Good thing they defunded all the agencies capable of enforcing clean water regulations, then.