Re:Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone...
by ben_w on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:57PM
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> In a few months US will have an anti-islamic version of Putin
With 45% probability, assuming he isn't assassinated.
The tie with Musk would make your hypothetical very convenient for Iran as an empty threat though, so there's that.
> Nobody dies
Loads of people die from communication failures.
More importantly, this would only even be a threat if it could actually cause a kessler cascade, because there's too many Starlink satellites to target directly even if you own SpaceX.
This matters because such a cascade will also mess up everything else in close orbits regardless of nationality.
It's like hypothesising someone might use CFCs as a chemical weapon: sure, if they want to make enemies with basically everyone all at the same time.
With 45% probability, assuming he isn't assassinated.
The tie with Musk would make your hypothetical very convenient for Iran as an empty threat though, so there's that.
> Nobody dies
Loads of people die from communication failures.
More importantly, this would only even be a threat if it could actually cause a kessler cascade, because there's too many Starlink satellites to target directly even if you own SpaceX.
This matters because such a cascade will also mess up everything else in close orbits regardless of nationality.
It's like hypothesising someone might use CFCs as a chemical weapon: sure, if they want to make enemies with basically everyone all at the same time.