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What a dummy. He's a perfect representation of the idiots being discussed in the first paragraph. Actually I think it's him who watches too much tv. I know he hates Trump but being delusional and rejecting reality because Trump is associated with it is no way to go through life.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/15/its-going-to-happen-is-world-ready-for-war-in-space
‘It’s going to happen’: is the world ready for war in space?
When you hear the phrase “space war”, it is easy to conjure images that could have come from a
Star Wars movie: dogfights in space, motherships blasting into warp speed, planet-killing lasers and astronauts with ray guns. And just as easy to then dismiss the whole thing as nonsense. It’s why last month’s call by President Trump for an American “space force” was met with a tired eye-roll from most. But there is truth behind his words. While the
Star Wars-esque scenario for what a space war would look like is indeed far-fetched, there is one thing all the experts agree on.
“It is absolutely inevitable that we will see conflict move into space,” says Michael Schmitt, professor of public international law and a space war expert at University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
What has prompted this latest interest in space war is that the means by which one country can attack another in space have changed dramatically. These days, a frontline space war soldier is most likely to be a state-sponsored hacker sitting at a computer terminal sending rogue commands to confuse or shut down an enemy’s satellites.
“I am convinced beyond a scintilla of doubt… It’s going to happen,” says Schmitt. “The immediate form would be cyber-attacks, either against the satellites or the ground stations that control them. It depends on the nature of the conflict whether you go beyond that,” he says.
Space war is inevitable because today’s modern militaries use space for everything, from spy satellites to a soldier on a mountaintop using satnav to figure out exactly where he or she is. “The reliance upon space is truly extraordinary in contemporary conflict,” says Schmitt. And in any war, one side will seek to deprive the other of their ability to function. In this day and age, that means attacking the satellites.
