Into the Night
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Not if everything else is moving at 17,000 mph in the same orbit.
As Einstein said, "It's all relative."
"CASH ONLY" Chaos - when credit card services went down at the local Wawa/gas station
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As Einstein said, "It's all relative."
Geeko Sportivo
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Great Post Big Dog!
Naturally we would retaliate by shooting down theirs.
But anyway, it would present a huge problem for the entire world- including Russia. And Russia would be shooting itself in the head- if they were to ever attempt some insane act like that.
Here is a study that may make you feel a little more rest assured that we have people working on this!
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blo...ould-require-a-firm-us-response-not-hysteria/
Because it's 1970...
ROFL
Just the opposite of what you claim is the reality. Copper is being expunged in the developed world. Fiber is still heavily used, Satellite is mostly for large data transfers. Point to point wireless is used more and more. Microwave and 5G LTE dominate for high speed data. LTE is susceptible to weather conditions, microwave is not, but LTE is faster and cheaper. Most backbones are still fiber, but for everything else, wireless rules.
Into the Night
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Nope. Wouldn't hurt Wyoming at all. They are connected by the Wasatch Relay system (a 'cable').
Into the Night
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Basically correct.
Indeed, there is ALREADY an amazing amount of space junk (dead satellites and debris) in low Earth orbit, where satellites have the fastest orbits; yet collisions are very rare. Satcom does not operate satellites in low Earth orbit. They tend to use geosynchronous orbits, along with weather satellites.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Thank you, Geeko, I thought it would be a fun topic.
The U.S. has 4500 Sats., China has 600, Russia has 174.
Of course, Russia would destroy their own Sats., too, with such an attack.
Geeko Sportivo
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You are a Trump fan Big Dog, and one thing that comes to mind when people ask what Donald Trump's Legacy will be, but for sure, was Trump's announcement that we were naming our Space Program the SPACE FORCE and naming it as another branch of our armed services.
I think everyone liked that idea, whether that was a Donnie idea or not.
I don't know the back story on that, but I credit him with doing it!
I think everyone liked that idea, whether that was a Donnie idea or not.
I don't know the back story on that, but I credit him with doing it!
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Yeah.
Your OP topic was idle speculation about something that has a snowball's chance in hell of ever happening.
I thought it was a stupid idea that unnecessarily created another level of bureaucracy.
The USAF was doing a perfectly good job coordinating with NASA on whatever defense related issues existed involving outer space.
Just another Trump glory hound attention grab.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
The Doomsday Clock is at a record 90 seconds thanks to Kamala and Plugs.
And according to your messiah ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-nuclear-weapons-threat-real-biden-warns-rcna90114
Putin nuclear weapons threat is 'real,' Biden warns
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-nuclear-weapons-threat-real-biden-warns-rcna90114NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com › news › world › putin-nucle...
Jun 20, 2023 — President Joe Biden has warned that the threat of Russian President Vladimir Putin's using tactical nuclear weapons is “real,” as Ukraine's ...
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Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
You know nothing about military tactics, and the importance of controlling the high ground.
Your IQ is at a record 60 thanks to the fact that you're a complete fucking N4T idiot.
None of that shit has anything to do with your dumbass OP about flakes of paint destroying satellites or Putin nuking them knowing that the debris it would create would also destroy Russian satellites.
DUHHHHH
You sure as hell don't.
T. A. Gardner
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Hell, pay cash when the system is working and some teen is at the cash register. They can't make change. The math involved eludes them.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Explosive diarrhea in your pants, poor thing.
If you'd learn to read, you would know all those things have already been addressed in the thread. Poor poor Slow nomad.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
If my bill is 19.50, I'll give them 20.50 so I can get a dollar back. That really blows their mind.
I didn't say they weren't addressed Mr. Low Attention Span.
The fact that you addressed them to begin with is why I'm laughing at you.
Stop trying to play your slick little games on me.
Fool.
When have you ever had $20?
The more backup infrastructure, the less you are dependent on satellites. That is just the math of the situation.
Do they live off the grid, or on the fringes of the grid? There is an important difference.
If you do not drive a car, accept that most of your children will die from lack of medicine, and live in a house made of sod, then you will hardly notice the missing satellites. If you drive a car, use modern medicine, live in a modern house, then losing satellites will be a huge problem for you.
Satellites have not been used in the first world for decades now. I still remember the problems with delays because of satellites for international phone calls, but that was back in the 1980's. Seriously fiber optic cables are literally a million times better than satellite in bandwidth, and ten to hundred times better lag.
Wireless does not use satellites, at least not in developed, populated areas. The wifi, or the cell data connects to a fiber optics cable, and goes from there. Satellites are either too high up, or rapidly moving along the sky. Either way, they have terrible bandwidth.