"The Next Pearl Harbor Could Happen In Space" Topic

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Tango01	04 May 2016 9:58 p.m. PST
Cool! See here link Amicalement Armand
Tango01	04 May 2016 10:08 p.m. PST
"In their techno-thriller Ghost Fleet, authors Peter Singer and August Cole describe a cataclysmic world war that begins with a Chinese sneak attack against the U.S. in space. First, soldiers at China's Cyber Command Headquarters in Shanghai hack into the Pentagon's network of GPS satellites and scramble their signals. The cyberattack sows chaos among U.S. forces, which can no longer navigate accurately, track targets or hit them with precision munitions. Then, from a space station orbiting 200 miles above Earth, Chinese astronauts train a laser gun on three dozen U.S. satellites the military relies upon for virtually all of its communications and critical surveillance. By the time the Chinese are done, America's technological edge on this new, 21st-century battlefield has been reduced to the predigital levels of World War II…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand
Tango01	04 May 2016 10:11 p.m. PST
Ha…Ha…Ha…!! (type a nervous breakdown laughing) Amicalement Armand
Tango01	04 May 2016 10:34 p.m. PST
You are right my friend… a looooooooooooooooooong timeoutlockfile of Doom today….! (smile) Amicalement Armand
Mako11	05 May 2016 1:31 a.m. PST
This is an ugly scenario. Hopefully, we're working on backups for the backups we have, or should have.
PrivateSnafu	05 May 2016 7:34 a.m. PST
It would be a good idea for us to have an entire spare set of missiles and satellites. We also need to continue to take the higher ground in space. Space is not supposed to be militarized but it will be.
Tango01	05 May 2016 10:11 a.m. PST
No doubt of that!!.. Amicalement Armand
Rod I Robertson	06 May 2016 10:38 a.m. PST
How could the next Pearl Harbor happen in Space when no nation state owns or controls space? Built into this thinking are some pretty dangerous presumptions perhaps. Can you own vacuum? Is space-time a commodity which can be owned and defended? Can dark-matter be owned and possessed and if someone else had that capability and humans did not would we find the majority of our galaxy the property of others?
Legion 4	06 May 2016 2:20 p.m. PST
If they can get here from out there … they are a vastly advanced civilization in all areas. Compared to us. Hopefully they only want to visit and be friends (?).