The chief of the US Space Force has warned that China is putting military capabilities into space at a “mind-boggling” pace, significantly increasing the risk of warfare in orbit.
“The number of different categories of space weapons that [China has] created and … the speed with which they’re doing it is very threatening,” said General Chance Saltzman, head of space operations at the US military’s recently created force tasked with protecting American interests in space.
We should fund military in space, says guy funded by military in space
You’re right, let’s allow China to militarize space unopposed. What could go wrong?
Reminder: we were opposing such things just fine when the Space Force was just part of the regular Air Force.
Reminder: situations tend to change as time moves forward.
Yes. In this case the change was because Donald Trump needed something to brag about.
You’re not entirely wrong.
However, it is 100% prudent to put military power into space as many other nations are doing the same.
Just because you dont like the words “space force” doesn’t make it a bad move.
I didn’t say it was a bad move to do it. I said we did it just fine when it was part of the Air Force.
We don’t need a Space Force.
Yeah, we dont need an air force either. 🙄
To be fair, determining that is exactly his fucking job right? If not him, who?
NASA.
NASA’s job is not defense analysis.
No, it’s space administration. And they are the ones who actually know a thing about how spaceflight works, unlike this guy, evidently.
This guy probably knows a bit more about what’s going on on the Chinese Space Station than you do.
Edit: a downvote with no response is an admission that you don’t know what you’re talking about and just are making shit up.
Haha! To prove that it wasn’t me, I just downvoted you. You are now on -1.
Sorry dude, you assumed too much there. I’m in Europe, and don’t go around down voting people in the middle of the night.
Anyway, your point. It’s irrelevant, since we were talking about NASA vs. the space rangers or whatever they’re called. Not This Guy vs. me.
This guy, the head of Space Force, also knows more about what’s actually going on on the Chinese space station that NASA most likely due to compartmentalized intelligence.
Previous edit didn’t apply to you, clearly. It applied to the person that downvoted and didn’t reply
Amazing what can happen when you neglect your space program for a generation.
Sucks to suck.
We’ve been spending the last generation funneling as much money to the oligarchs as possible. We’ve seen what that did/does to Russia’s capabilities and we’re somehow surprised that it works the same way here too.
Amazing what can happen when your “Only Real American” Talibangelicals manage to enforce their view that science is blasphemy in the face of their God who only talks to them in their heads.
We are being lead to destruction by the most violently proudly ignorant among us.
I think the Space Force are looking for their own funding…
Space Force trying to justify why they exist.
Lol, any orbital war would be extremely short lived due to the Kessler Syndrome. Tho the world’s leadership is definitely stubborn and dumb enough to not let such a silly thing like facts stop em.
China spends a quarter of what the US does in military and somehow gets 5 times more accomplishments. This is either 1 a lie to get more spending or 2 gross mismanagement by the US
China certainly could be lying.
Half of the US states are purposely bankrupting their education systems to make sure that the 1 percenters are the only ones with any advantage. Even in the States that aren’t actively trying to stamp out education the poor and middle class can’t afford a respectable education.
China is sitting on a pile of natural resources and doesn’t have any problems with underpaying and working people to death.
They’re set up to do a lot with very little, they have a lot of people and resources and they’re not afraid to educate enough people to get the job done.
It’s not just space, they’re getting places with electric cars that we can’t touch.
It’ll be interesting to see where all this ends up.
5:1 is less than I’d have guessed on the money. We have a capitalism problem. Contractors dont charge an honest price, they charge every penny they can get away with. MIC is just a big money printing machine for a couple dozen companies.
That $45 hammer meme isn’t just a meme.
We have a southern problem, they know they can bribe the good ol boys for pennies on the dollar and the pork will always flow.
Cut the spending, send it to states where people learned to read.
Tons of information theft by china too. They stole plans too so many things it saved them billions
And western companies would never resort to corporate espionage would they?
NASA’s headquarters are in Alabama.
2 people managed to utterly destroy NASA and everything it stood for:
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George Walllace: Incensed that NASA did not enforce the rigid segregation he originally prescribed
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Richard Shelby: Who made sure all NASA funding went straight to Alabama and only Alabama, all contractors had to work there, and all private space funding was absolutely forbidden: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/so-long-richard-shelby-and-thanks-for-all-the-pork/#gsc.tab=0
If we want to have a space program again, we need to take it out of Alabama, or it’s just a money faucet, the equivalent of giving inbred cavemen an electron microscope, which they then tear apart to beat each other with.
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What are those accomplishments?
This is what happens when you’re more concerned with genociding innocent people and making like 10 guys obscenely wealthy rather than doing anything useful.
You literally just described China.
Mozi sat is such a cool idea. https://spacenews.com/china-is-developing-a-quantum-communications-satellite-network/
Quantum entropy might even defeat timewave…
missile gap
Haha, “Space Force.”
Wait. Is that for real their uniform? I thought that was a throw-away joke from the series.
This is the time when parts suppliers switch from EUV to warfare. Either that or some shitty stupid custom screw that holds a special EUV related shitty reactor thingamabob get used in F-16s. So then the EUV component holds up the manufacturing line.
Shoot your foot, then jump and shoot your other foot.
