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Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country? by JabavuAdams on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:34AM (#24988847)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country? by traverseda on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:48AM (#24988987)
Only until they start being able to drop rocks on things...

Giving a private company potential WMD's is a whole other question though.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country? by JabavuAdams on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @09:00AM (#24989087)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country? by __s on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @09:49AM (#24989504)
Dropping rocks on Earth to declare independence is the plot of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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