OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon

[Raapys]

Ban weapons in space? How then will we defeat *the aliens*

[Atrocities]

China will one day rule the world and North America will be a province of the Korean Nation.

[Randallw]

I have an old BW Legion of Superheroes comic where the timeline changed and the Chinese own the moon. But that's 1000 years in the future, we still have plenty of time to stop them.

[Atrocities]

They flood our markets with cheap imitation goods, and we fall back. They disagree with us in virtually every political arena and we fall back. They commit espionage against us, pay for a presidential election, and displace millions of American workers, and we fall back. They ignore human rights, limit internet activity of their people, and control Hong Kong, and we fall back. I say the line must be drawn here, this far, no further!

[Jack Simth]

Yeah, um... it's actually kinda easy to destroy a satelite if you know where it is. You "just" put something else on an intersecting orbit, ideally orbiting in the opposite direction. Under such conditions, a handful of steel ball bearings will vaporise just about anything up there (or at least render it rather nonfunctional). Granted, hitting the target can get dicy.....

[Slick]

The space arms race has begun.

[Atrocities]

When they start to put weapons platforms on the moon, I mean Sol III A, then I will be concerned. Until then, we just simply need to invent a new technology like stealth satellites, or deep orbit cloaked satellites.

Perhaps even an anti anti-satellite weapon?