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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why now?

The US military already has satellites than can drop artificial asteroids onto Earth, causing large localised, hard to detect and prevent damage.

Space has sadly already been weaponised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not officially, so one wonders how you got this info?

I mean, ICBMs are basically this, just unlaunched, but I doubt that's your point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Interesting phrasing fellow citizen. Did you inform them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No updates in several years, and the human propensity to weaponise.

Plus the furore a few years back over the Russian anti-satellite satellite and the way both US and Russia spoke round the issue.

Non-weaponised space is verging into Israel isn't a nulear weapon state territory if I'm honest.