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Oh, yes, now the blame starts

China is bad or USA is bad ?

Hopefully they will use some sort of laser of high power microwave and not make rubbish in space, otherwise we may never go to space again.

Do we really need a weaponized global internet ?

Oh, yes, now the blame starts China is bad or USA is bad ? Hopefully they will use some sort of laser of high power microwave and not make rubbish in space, otherwise we may never go to space again. Do we really need a weaponized global internet ?

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Maybe China will think a bit smarter. Hack the satellites and deorbit them. Seems way fucking easier. How many chinese made components are in starlink satellites you reckon, tens of thousands?

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It is not enough to have "a component" for it to be hackable, you need a "platform".

this is why Intel ME is such a huge trojan horse

in any case, the point is that if there is a war for taiwan and USA gets into tit, we may end up without starlink

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Elon: "Hmmm... Maybe I should just launch a few bundles of 1" rebar, and then deorbit them myself over Beijing. Then just say, "Hey, don't look at me. They did it themselves. They said they were going to. They must have fucked it up."

Know what the difference is between a satellite launch vehicle and a ballistic missile? None whatsoever.

Don't pick fights with anybody that can put heavy shit into space over your head whenever they want.

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Do we really need a global network that isn't controlled by a nation state? Uh, duh, yeah, another option is always good. I never understood people against 'options' You just want to maintain the current status quo, which is highly suspect.

Once Starship is operational, and as long as the other countries don't have reusable rockets, it's financial suicide for them to try.

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China would not have any objection, possibly, if it was a purely civilian project

The moment it is also a military one, it becomes a target

USA does the same, so, nothing new here.

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Fair enough. China needs a Starlink killing system because Starlink is a China killing system. But that's kinda reactionary and they're kinda behind until they have a US killing system.

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they already have hyper-sonic carrier killer missiles

how many atomic ICBM do they have ? who knows...

they are no idiots and they have russia as partner

USA is gambling, ALL IN with world pocker

well, actually, WEF is gambling, but it is kind of the same thing

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Of the thousands of satellites floating around out there, they take issue with Starlink?

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it is the bandwidth you can have and the fact that apparently the constellation is able to detect missile launch

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If they actually deploy the planned number of starlink satellites, they'll outnumber all other satellites five to one.

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Star link is the only one capable of providing real time high speed network connection anywhere on the globe. None of the others have the redundancy or coverage that starlink does. You can use them as gps and do all sorts of stuff with them. I think shooting them down though would be a colossal undertaking just because of the sheer number of them.

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They're likely seeing the difficulty Rus is having jamming comms in the Ukr.

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Sure, but you'd have to get a dish imported. That would be pretty tough to get if China bans it like it does most things. Yeah, shooting them down would be insane. Shooting them all down is hard and banning them is easy, this just feels like posturing more than an actual threat.

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The current Chinese method is expensive and starlink satellites are many. But one of the keys is that we can afford to put them up as fast or much faster than they can take them down. Once they do this, it is game on. We take out their capability to take out our capability.

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Maybe, maybe not

war is not as predictable as one may wish