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Why is the US so keen to allow conventional weapons in space?
The Moon Wars of 2055 and 2072, and the Martian invasion of 2103.
The hilarious part is that the rule of law doesn't apply to most high level "intelligence" and "national security" operations, and even if moves are made to apply it they just pass a new bill to make the historic crimes retroactively legal, so all of this is just showboating and won't actually prevent superpowers from doing it anyway — there have never been any consequences remotely adequate to fit the crimes.
Because they are the one's closest to using them.
They want the ability to shoot down other countries' satellites when they go to war with them. Things like disabling communication satellites and GPS (or Russia's equivalent, GLONASS).
Kessler Syndrome? Never heard of it.
When has ruining the world for everyone else ever stopped the usa before? :(
There really seems to be a lot of "If not us, nobody" in the command structure of that military cult empire.
spAcE foRcE 🤪
The plan is already to decimate moon settlers with nuclear meltdowns.
Really highlights how fucking dumb the elite are.
It's not like one side of the moon is always facing the sun, which has been the chief argument against solar panels for decades and decades (that being: the sun goes down and then solar panels dont generate, so an electric grid that is mostly used at night isnt feasable).
One side of the moon is NOT always facing the sun. One side of the moon is always facing the EARTH. The moon rotates on its axis at a rate of one rotation per orbit around the Earth.
The moon is not tidally locked with the sun. Also the viable landing sites on the moon are tiny. There's so much that's difficult about the moon for settlement and solar power viability is actually one of them.
I would think the difference in air conditioning, especially big commercial buildings, would more than make up the balance.
Overall... I agree with your take.
I counter with electricity costs of keeping them AC units at the clean room mouth running 24/7 vs in presence of new contaminant and how dust blows both ways and mold tends to blow one way.
I missed that we were talking about being on the moon. Lmao
on average night on the moon is 15 earth days. it’s not trivial to store 15 days worth of solar energy. nothing to do with elitism whatsoever.