Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations has compared U.S. President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense program to a “protection racket” after Trump said his northern neighbor can pay $61 billion to join the program or it could be free if the country agrees to annexation.
  • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    9 days ago

    Never say never. Somebody like you probably thought going into space would never happen. It’ll happen and it won’t hurt to be at the frontier.

          • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
            17·
            9 days ago

            Other countries wouldn’t just be shooting down our satellites for the same reason they don’t just blow up our naval or aerial fleets. Moot point.

            Baby steps. Start small and build it up. Figure out new, more feasible weapons. Other countries are already thinking about and experimenting with space defense. Not just us.

            When your bones have been repurposed for crude oil and when all of Earth’s resources have gone dry, the people of that time will think of space military the same way we think of the Air Force.

              • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
                13·
                8 days ago

                Don’t let your hate for Trump blind your ability to conceptualize innovation.

                With that logic nothing would ever be created. Think about fighter jets. In the beginning you have one. Doesn’t do much, but if you keep building eventually it becomes something really effective. Come on.

                  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    3·
                    8 days ago

                    Don’t let your hatred of Trump and Reagan and your knowledge of physics blind you to the better points of what could be achieved by boiling the earths oceans!

                  • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    12·
                    8 days ago

                    You’re like a cave person to people who will one day have enormous satellites with advanced weaponry on them. Don’t stop dreaming. Space militarization will happen whether you like it or not. Better to think about how it could happen then why one idea can’t. More importantly, think about how we could defend ourselves, not how we could attack others.

    • Tiger666@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      Like everything else Drumpf does; this is a scam. Your dear leader will never implement this. It is an obvious protection racket. Reagan had Star Wars and that was never implemented because it would have cost trillions in the eighties. Another conservative grift to increase funds for the military.