Bond villain tests actual space weapon

[Blue Jam]

Ohhhhhh fuck:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53518238

[bgmnts]

Get in!

I was unsurprised to learn that the US has already detonated a nuclear weapon in space, as early as 1962.

Would love a nuclear war in space.

[BlodwynPig]

Ohhhhhh fuck:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53518238

Don't believe anything you read from the British SS at the Beeb

Jonathan Marcus is a BBC journalist whose name appears on a list of journalists leaked from the Integrity Initiative in 2018.

The Integrity Initiative (II) is an organ of the UK Deep state, controlled through the Institute for Statecraft. It was exposed by 7 sets of leaked documents, in 2018-19.

[Blumf]

Meanwhile, 35 years ago...


https://fighterjetsworld.com/space/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15-once-shot-down-a-solwind-p78-1-satellite/1680/

[idunnosomename]

Would love a nuclear war in space.

I BET YOU DO YOU DIRTY OLD BOLLOCKS. I BET YOU FUCKING DO.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I thought Elon Musk was the 'space weapon'.

[idunnosomename]

launch the cunt into orbit and see what damage he does

[Alberon]

It's bloody pointless.

All satellites are potential space weapons. If you can punt one of them into another at a fast enough combined velocity you can destroy any target.

All you need is spare fuel. That unmanned space plane the American Air Force puts into orbit for months at a time could probably work as a kinetic missile in a pinch.

[Cold Meat Platter]

Did noone watch the Clint Eastwood documentary Space Cowboys?

[Sherringford Hovis]

I like the bit in The Right Stuff where the Generals can't get an overhead projector to work.

[Mister Six]

It's bloody pointless.

All satellites are potential space weapons. If you can punt one of them into another at a fast enough combined velocity you can destroy any target.

All you need is spare fuel. That unmanned space plane the American Air Force puts into orbit for months at a time could probably work as a kinetic missile in a pinch.

Erm, yeah, and you can just crash planes into enemy bases. But it's a bit more practical (and cheaper) to equip them with missiles.

[famethrowa]

It's bloody pointless.

All satellites are potential space weapons. If you can punt one of them into another at a fast enough combined velocity you can destroy any target.

All you need is spare fuel. That unmanned space plane the American Air Force puts into orbit for months at a time could probably work as a kinetic missile in a pinch.

True, Johnny Pryce just had to shoot off a fencepost to fuck up the place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOKf5r_JMAo

[Paul Calf]

I'm not a military expert.

[Alberon]

Ballistic satellite-killers are fairly easy. The US might not have anything up there, but I'd be very surprised if it doesn't have something ready to launch if needed. Russia testing one is just dick-swinging though.

Space Junk is already a severe problem think of all the extra shrapnel up there if a tit-for-tat exchange got going up there.

[famethrowa]

As long as they stay away from the porn satellite. I read that there's a satellite put in orbit by Hoechst and the ISPs reroute any incoming grumble through it as the credit card companies won't let it go through Meteosat or STRaND-1 or similar. Funny thing is it has a rolling capacity of 2TB, I have more Ben Dover movies on a zip drive than that! Anyway let's pray the russkies keep their hands off it.

[Blumf]

Meanwhile, 13 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test

[Gurke and Hare]

I have more Ben Dover movies on a zip drive than that!

but since it isn't 1995 any more you can't still watch them?

[Glebe]

[H-O-W-L]

It's like that "WORLD ENDING FUTURE CHANGING DRONE WITH A ROCKET LAUNCHER" that Russia wanked off about a few months ago. Or the "WORLD CHANGING NUCLEAR MISSILE THAT DROPS MANY OTHER MISSILES" (you mean a MIRV, a weapon that's existed since the 1960s) months before that. Utter bollocks.

[Blue Jam]

Did noone watch the Clint Eastwood documentary Space Cowboys?

This is more like that crowdfunded Finnish documentary Iron Sky.

"Has everyone been arming their satellites?"

[JesusAndYourBush]

I thought Elon Musk was the 'space weapon'.

If the Russians want to test their laser on something small first, they can test it on some of those mini-satellites that Musk keeps spaffing out.

[beanheadmcginty]

but since it isn't 1995 any more you can't still watch them?

90s grumble is the best. No tattoos, nobody's doing anything too weird and they all have such glamorous hair.

[famethrowa]

90s grumble is the best. No tattoos, nobody's doing anything too weird and they all have such glamorous hair.

Except there is that weird tendency for the participants to keep their Reeboks on while practicing the "sheet arts", chaps and ladies alike. Doesn't happen so much now, I hope.