US confirms space weapons

[ikarl]

So the US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth's orbit.... anyone surprised?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck790xg41ygro

[WH16]

For anyone who'd rather not give the BBC their clicks.

https://www.twz.com/space/u-s-admits-it-has-weapon...

[ChevronB19]

I’d be amazed if they weren’t there in some form or other from the moment we broke orbit

[ChevronB19]

WH16 said:

For anyone who'd rather not give the BBC their clicks.

https://www.twz.com/space/u-s-admits-it-has-weapon...

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What on Earth is wrong with clicking on a BBC article? (O/T)

[Nemophilist]

Coincides with all the news articles of AI safety fears....

[DrDeAtH]

Would these be the Jewish space lasers MTG alluded to?

Edited by DrDeAtH on Tuesday 15th September 16:18

[Trash_panda]

I wonder if a plucky Brit from the navy will need to go up there and sort out terrorists from taking it over....

[KingNothing]

Is it called Spaceball One?

[Radec]

KingNothing said:

Is it called Spaceball One?

Lol

[Countdown]

ikarl said:

anyone surprised?

Not at all. I'd also not be surprised if Russia, China and Israel had weapons in space.

I'm surprised that the Orange Turd wasn't the one to announce it personally.

[Evanivitch]

Space has already been weaponised. There's already dual-use satellite technology for the de-oribit of space junk, and it's already been tested. Satellite to satellite confrontation is already happening with close-passes and lack of deconfliction occuring on a regular occurrence.

That would suggest to be that what they've put up there isn't kinetic, put possibly intended to break communication links.

[-Lummox-]

Shades of Robocop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CrTJEY8zNs

[Griffith4ever]

Countdown said:

ikarl said:

anyone surprised?

Not at all. I'd also not be surprised if Russia, China and Israel had weapons in space.

I'm surprised that the Orange Turd wasn't the one to announce it personally.

Indeed, the fact china asked for no "arms race in space" made me chuckle - it's them that we will probably be defending against.

I'm glad a Western country is taking it seriously - we are defenseless here.

Toby Tarrant was mocking Trump this morning on the radio, along the lines of "what is he thinking!?" , "I know, lets put more weapons in space!" - and I'm thinking, thank god someone is doing something. Then to top it off, he carries on, "you'd think he'd be more like, "lets explore space - its amazing" (and I'm thinking , that's exactly what Elon is doing, but, no, Elon = bad - best ignore). He really needs to think before speaking (Tarrant)

[thegreenhell]

Just spotted on space radar

[Glade]

Johnson!

[Terminator X]

Rods from God?

TX.

[LunarOne]

All we need now is for Sean Connery to get yanked off a racing yacht and he'll convince the Russians and Americans to point their space weapons at the common threat. Then we just need to decide who that is.

[Eric Mc]

ChevronB19 said:

I d be amazed if they weren t there in some form or other from the moment we broke orbit

What do you mean by “broke orbit”?

Do you mean the ability to put something into earth orbit?

If you do then, yes, both the US and the USSR were quick to try and use earth orbit as a place for military activities
The US has had reconnaissance satellites since around 1960.

[Sway]

Terminator X said:

Rods from God?

TX.

I think if someone had actually put rods from God up there, they'd have already been used. They're the perfect first strike weapon - the force of nukes without the radiation, very short time from launch to impact, etc.

You could take out the government and primary military capability of anyone pretty easily if you had them, with limited risk of retaliation.

[_Rodders_]

Wonder how many satellite's need to be obliterated in orbit before low Earth orbits are unusable from all the debris?

We're the Earth's cancer.