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[–] antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] MrChewy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Does it run TempleOS?

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Robert Heinlein wrote stories about this topic and not all turned out well.

[–] gewindestift@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

well otherwise they would be pretty useless

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

You could make one that shoots the moon.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I’m going to make an RTS game that reflects an accurate Israel as an international foe

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Let's not tell them it's s waste of money and let them go broke.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Space lasers yes, but I imagine that after the higher ups finally get the memo on that, most of the funding will go into optical imaging and SAR satellites for surveillance.

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Huh and here I thought the Romanians would be doing that...

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There will always be violence as long as so many are stuck in supernatural systems, that have to defeat the other supernatural systems, or variations of their own. All this violence over unfalsifiable stories, like Sagan's invisible dragon, but no one killed or abused over that story. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/107506-now-what-s-the-difference-between-an-invisible-incorporeal-floating-dragon

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

ion cannon network belongs to EA.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

So... How are they going to launch them?

Reads a bit like the obsession a certain dictator had with wunderwaffe.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

America will do it for them. Israel doesnt have much of a space program that can even come remotely close developing any of these goals on its own, they use a deep partnership with NASA ..aka they are gifted data and designs by bribed US politicians.. or they flat out steal it, like they did with all of their nuclear material stolen from the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair

they also dont have an economy large enough to fund researching any of this out or doing it. Israels entire GDP (PPP based) is only 600 billion. The tiny state of Massachusetts alone has a GDP of 780 billion.. about 25% larger than Israels.. just Massaschusetts. The city of Boston has a GDP of 610 million. And the whole US gdp is ~50 times what Israels is.

Israel is reading out a list of what they will order Americans to provide for them for free so they can pretend they developed it themselves. Same as with the Israeli F-35 program and their naval tech. See how they pretend they have extended the F-35 with native tech to make it vastly superior to the US f-35: https://defense.info/air-power-dynamics/2025/06/israels-f-35i-adir-a-strategic-game-changer-in-middle-east-air-power/

They are bullshitters, pedophiles, criminals, and welfare queens.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Elon Musk will probably gift them rockets. Given that his decision to cut USAid has already killed thousands of children, he certainly doesn't seem to mind dead kids.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I know they are banking on that, but strategically it's not the soundest investment.

[–] bonesawmcl@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Israel has some launch capability, though they have to launch retrograde and don't have that much payload capacity to LEO because of it.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thats interesting didn't know that

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, because that is what they need.

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
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