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I'm GLAD we ELIMINATED FOOD SAFETY INSPECTIONS so we could Afford THIS!
Hey now. Some of us may get sick or die, but at least we'll have an overpriced yet somehow super cheaply made satellite security system operated by a ketamine addict.
Wait...
MAGA supporter: I see nothing wrong here.
the dude that can't even keep four wheels on a fucking truck is gonna do wut?!?!
He is gonna leech tax money for a product that he will never deliver.
It'll be done by next year
Or a product that he will have built using tax money, and that he will instead use to hold the world ransom.
Don't worry, he's also got the help of *checks notes... Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey!
Don't people feel good for supporting the original Oculus Rift now? I'm so glad the godfather of modern VR is an absolute pile of shit and always was!
Guiding drones to a target is the killer app for VR headsets
He must have watched that pile of shit movie Toys.
The three companies met with top officials in the Trump administration and the Pentagon in recent weeks to pitch their plan, which would build and launch 400 to more than 1,000 satellites circling the globe to sense missiles and track their movement, sources said.
A separate fleet of 200 attack satellites armed with missiles or lasers would then bring enemy missiles down, three of the sources said.
People in one forum speculated about Trump's "Golden dome" fantasy a few months ago. I did a calculation on the back of a napkin. My result: not 1000 or 200, but about 9000 interceptor vehicles are required for good coverage. Very lucrative contract, very impractical system - they'll drive the US bankrupt doing this.
And what will a nuclear-armed adversary do? At first, they might do an atmospheric nuclear detonation high over their own country - to get a little privacy. After that, a small number of missiles will launch on flight paths not leading to the target - to create gaps in the sensor and interceptor network by detonating near them in space. Maybe a few minutes later, the main attack will follow. When approaching the target area, the vanguard of the main attack will detonate in atmosphere to ionize air (turn it opaque to radar). Nuclear weapons do not need sensors to navigate or communicate, they use inertial navigation and remain silent. Interceptors need to see and communicate, which can be denied with nuclear weapons.
End result: an advanced attacker will have to spend about 10 minutes to penetrate this defense. It only buys more time to launch a nuclear counter-attack (which could be launched anyway, based on mere observation and early warning).
Satellites are bound by their orbits to spend a lot of time in useless places from the viewpoint of defending a location. This kind of a system makes the defending side over-invest in infrastructure, which is not economical.
No. that would be taxpayer dollars. taxpayers will pay for this fraud.
Wannabe feudal lords come for military power, as they always have.
Omg its just like Moonraker
So the pentagon is gonna bend over for the sunshine train too? You guys are really fucked if that happens and so are all of us.
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Shedletsky needs to shut the fuck up. All that bitch did was work on Roblox. Yeah, you really built the modern world you fucking chump.
A lot of engineers don't realize that there is earned expertise and skill in other fields...or that the consent of the governed matters.
And this is why multidisciplinary education is important.
Cops get the benefit of beating people up, engineers get bragging rights for an alleged superiority.
Wrong.
Musk plans to take a bunch of money and not deliver.
One of the sources familiar with the talks described them as “a departure from the usual acquisition process. There’s an attitude that the national security and defense community has to be sensitive and deferential to Elon Musk because of his role in the government.”
Following in the hallowed (retch) footsteps of Dick Cheney and Halliburton's no-bid contracts to "rebuild" Iraq.
This is the setup to a Bond movie
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Never considered the pros of Kessler syndrome. Also I guess alien defense?.. speed bumps.
It'd be a shame if the targeting software got corrupted.
You mean to pay him to have someone else use it, right?
Because he’s got the cerebral capacity of a cloud of fart particles, and half the personality.
project insight?