• Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=93US_Space_Command_P?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?repares_For_S

    From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to lynnmcguire5@gmail.com on Fri Aug 22 10:15:44 2025
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:25:54 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    “US Space Command Prepares For Satellite Vs. Satellite Combat”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-space-commands-prepares-satellite-vs-satellite-combat

    Nuclear bomb pumped lasers are coming to space !

    IIRC, there was a story/series of stories/resulting novel about this
    sort of thing marching off in a direction no Earth government had in
    mind.

    Maybe we'll get lucky, who can say?
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to lynnmcguire5@gmail.com on Sat Aug 23 08:21:27 2025
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:22:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 8/22/2025 9:54 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
    On 8/21/2025 6:25 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    “US Space Command Prepares For Satellite Vs. Satellite Combat”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-space-commands-prepares-
    satellite- vs-satellite-combat

    Nuclear bomb pumped lasers are coming to space !

    ...as is the Kessler Syndrome.

    pt

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

    "The Kessler syndrome, also known as the Kessler effect,[1][2]
    collisional cascading, or ablation cascade, is a scenario proposed by
    NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978. It >describes a situation in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit >(LEO) becomes so high due to space pollution that collisions between
    these objects cascade, exponentially increasing the amount of space
    debris over time.[3] This proliferation of debris poses significant
    risks to satellites, space missions, and the International Space
    Station, potentially rendering certain orbital regions unusable and >threatening the sustainability of space activities for many
    generations.[3] In 2009, Kessler wrote that modeling results indicated
    the debris environment had already become unstable, meaning that efforts
    to achieve a growth-free small debris environment by eliminating past
    debris sources would likely fail because fragments from future
    collisions would accumulate faster than atmospheric drag could remove >them.[4] The Kessler syndrome underscores the critical need for
    effective space traffic management and collision avoidance strategies to >ensure the long-term viability of space exploration and utilization."

    But it's more fun to just let it all go to pot and then look for
    someone (someone /else/ to be sure) to blame.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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