Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country?
by Piskvorrr on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:08AM
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Despite reiterating what the Outer Space Treaty says, this is just as useful as laying claim to it. "Whoever is sitting on it can claim it" is the more probable result, should it come to that.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country?
by saargrin on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:25AM
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whoever can haul cheap cargo there reliably ,including military hardware ,then
praise Elon and set blasters to stun!
Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country?
by JabavuAdams on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:34AM
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Space launch and space vehicles are very vulnerable. This means that any space launch company can be strong-armed by any nation state or even reasonably armed non-state actor unless they're defended by a nation-state.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country?
by traverseda on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:48AM
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Only until they start being able to drop rocks on things...
Giving a private company potential WMD's is a whole other question though.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country?
by JabavuAdams on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @09:00AM
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Sure. If you can drop kinetic projectiles from orbit or higher, you don't need nukes.
But you have to build a lot of infrastructure to either get that mass up there, or compel that mass to change momentum.
One drone with a shaped charge could take out a fueled launch vehicle and make the bad unusable for an annoyingly long time. I hope that there are plans to defend against this.