Quoting Circumstantial, reply 63There are a lot of positives for civilization as a whole staying out of space development. In society today, its a space race. Next thing you know, we'll have nukes in space. Go look up the rods of god program. Scary shit. Im pretty glad that NASA funding got cut. I hope all funding gets cut for all space programs. When it becomes cheap and militarily effective, we will have nukes and weapons of great variety just floating about in our orbit. I don't trust civilization with technology yet, we seem to keep screwing it up with the same kinds of ancient established institutions, thought processes, and value systems that have been leading to destructive behavior amongst all humans. Value systems(not petty morals), thought processes and emergent institutions need to directly reflect what will benefit civilization both in the short and long term, in order for space programs to be innocent. Right now, we are so self destructive that its almost a guarentee that we will construct nukes in space if its beneficial enough for the entities at power. Im an asshole.
We don't need nukes in space to totally #$%& eachother up with. That's what ICBM's and submarines are for. There are tons and tons of ways for one country to wipe another country off the map that completely stopping all space programs would be of no consequence.
Lets discuss the military advantages of having nukes/weapons with a nuke's destructive power in space.
1. you can nuke the space operations of you enemy nations
2. you can bombard an enemy country with kinetic tactical nukes(rods of god program, large microfiber reinfoced beams)
3. you can bombard enemies with nukes virtually undetected, compared to land based launching
4. you can target any country, anywhere, any time, with less cost and less resources
5. you can nuke part of the moon, causing all kinds of bioshphere collapses that only effect your enemy country
6. you can nuke part of the moon, thus sending a large chunk of the moon plummeting to the earth, bringing near apocalypitc destruction(on your enemy country of course)
7. you can have nuke wars
8. you can nuke the colonies of your enemy countries(getting close to colonizing our system)
9. you can nuke any and everything you want much more efficiently from space, than from earth, especially objects that are away from earth.
THAT is my point, sir. It is scary to see human civilization in its current parasitic, primitive state, bringing war and destruction to the rest of the cosmos.
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