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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiYrseqXOH4
Can we at least get to Mars before we start blowing up the space around us?
If no one enforces a law, is it really illegal?
Can't wait till the kessler syndrome is in full effect and we have no way to escape the earth which was also doomed by ourselves.
Kessler syndrome is a massively overstated problem, the amount of debris you would actually need to make a substantial effect would require more launches than we could pull off in any reasonable time
iirc the law says shouldn't send materiel delivery systems to space, like nuke sats.
I don't think destroying foreign sats is strictly illegal using terrestrial weaponry but adding onto the space debris problem is a bad idea in general.
That said, it's not like you can audit secret projects.
Do you have a source on this? NASA and ESA seem to consider it a serious threat.
Kessler syndrome is specifically about satellites that remain in specific orbital ranges, not craft moving through it, the specific scenario that Kessler mentioned was about LEO, and it's about how it increases the likeliness of impacts, not making them a common occurrence or a threat to craft moving through a region. KesSym from Kessler's own website.
Putin really is a bond villain isn't he
Only for nukes. Conventional weaponry is fine. If this means "pew-pew lasers" à lá Star Wars is anyone's guess.
You also aren't allowed to colonize planets with the express intention of building military bases.
everybody has pretty much been arming up with anti satellite weapons since the 2000s, and then russia probably has relaunched their anti satellite vehicle program from the soviet days, but weaponizing space is going to be all around bad for humanity
like it or not, advances in weapons technology are advances in all of technology: the space/arms races of the cold war brought about all currently existing technology.
hopefully we shan't need to use them, but aggressive R&D of space age weapons could bring about new luxuries in automation and space travel
Fucking hell, we're really just re-looping through the Cold War aren't we?
America is too fragile right now to survive another cold war.
It's not as though development of military technologies is what spurs technological development, it's because, for whatever asinine reason, people just don't care to funnel resources into solving certain problems (that could easily be solved without thinking "how can blow up gooder?!"), and it just so happens the military-industrial complex has a TON of money to funnel.
Not surprising, warfare in space was inevitable seeing as how it's a super power that's taking the initiative and few super powers to rival them in their power. Anyone ready to see NASA phase out in it's current for some Space Defense force?
Nope.
the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind;
outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;
outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means;
States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;
the Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes;
astronauts shall be regarded as the envoys of mankind;
States shall be responsible for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities;
States shall be liable for damage caused by their space objects; and
States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies.
You just can't take over planets for military stuff or put nukes and WMD's in orbit. This is potentiallyloop holed by having other weapons in orbit that aren't traditionally called WMDs. You can have all the space lasers and kinetic bombardment stations you want. However, I suppose it can be argued if you start plucking peoples satellites out of orbit, you're not allowing them to exercise their free use of Space, thus breaking rule 3. At the end of the day, if war in space breaks out, I doubt anyones going to be enforcing this stuff, especially when it's likely to be the US and Russia doing the war.
Oh fuck off can the US and Russia keep their shit on the planet rather than moving to start a new space arms race.
The current debris in orbit is already problematic enough the last thing we need is satellites being blown up and kessler syndrome locking us out from spaceflight.
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