Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.space.com/space-force-1st-targeting-squadron
US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites::The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations’ satellites and the ground stations that support them.
Man why do they have to make these cringey symbols for units like these? This is space, we should have something cooler.
Ope I see we have different tastes lmao
It probably speaks to the people that would want to join it. I’m not the target audience!
US Space Force: “Stop laughing, we really do have a purpose!”
Things could get interesting if they start competing with the Navy to be another taxi service for the Marines though.
I’m willing to bet that the Navy will take over the task of commanding spaceships when we start with the space imperialism
Yeah but Space Marines though.
Yes please.
“Fuck off, boot, the moon isn’t even a real deployment!”
That’s a cool logo. I wonder who designs them
It was a missed opportunity to use a Terminator on the patch.
Ya, instead we got Skeletor. Who would have thought?
Will they take out their own satellites too? Since they spy on their own citizens…
Just have to point something out… if they mean “Target” in the sense of “shoot them down,” then I have to say :
What a monumentally stupid fucking idea.
I guess no one told the fucking morons drawing skull icons all day that by blowing up “adversary” satellites will just turn detectable objects flying around at 150km/s into tiny storms of deadly shrapnel also traveling at 150km/s spread out over a much wider and less visible range… which itself will also likely impact other orbiting projectiles and likely also turn THOSE into hypersonic shrapnel-storms as well…
Seriously… someone please ELI5 these idiots the concept by showing them 3 minutes of the film “Gravity” and maybe the concept will sink in to their absolutely stupid fucking skulls
From the article, “These systems range from ground-based lasers that can blind optical sensors on satellites to devices that can jam signals or conduct cyberattacks to hack into adversary satellite systems.”
I was about to comment “I wonder what techniques they’ll use to disable satellites without blowing them to dangerous smithereens.”
But I see you’ve assumed they’re idiots and will do exactly that. I think you could give people a little more credit. They’re at least as knowledgeable as you, random internet person.
I mean on the one hand they probably know what they’re doing, on the other hand they think a skull in a triangle makes them look cool. Just saying.
everybody except me is an idiot. I watched Sandra Bullock pretend to be in space and am therefore am expert. I am very smart.
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Taking out satellites can lead to a chain reaction destroying even more satellites…
DemBoSain@midwest.social 1 year ago
“Are we the baddies?”
someguy@lemmyland.com 1 year ago
“Our patches? They’ve got skulls on them…”