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[–] dragginupagain@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

'somebody at a security conference said one method of dealing with a target is destroying it'

wow incredible story. Surely this is being upvoted because it's a quality article about current events that are globally relevant and not because the musk obsessives are jerking off to the fantasy the headline presented.

There is an enough_musk_spam community where this stuff should be posted.

Here's the actual reporting that this clickbait was extracted from https://archive.ph/20260709102553/https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-new-axis-of-evil-der-spiegel-investigation-reveals-deep-military-cooperation-between-russia-and-china-a-12dc295a-413d-4a2f-b44f-2922092270e3#selection-1635.25-1635.374 fair warning it just boils down to 'Russia and China have some military cooperation because they see the US as a shared adversary'

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder how much taxpayer money will be spent trying to protect musk's satellites.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Honestly, they are so cheap compared to anything that could kill them. The best passive defense strategy is to just launch more.

Obviously there are lots of active defense measures that would be on the table. But that would likely be the chosen passive defense strategy.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I could get on board with that.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world -4 points 4 hours ago

I'm surprised China just doesn't say they created a better Starlink. The CCP lies/makes up about everything else so what's one more thing.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh I'm actually all for this! Destroy ALL the satellites!

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is they won't clean anything up.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago

Clean what up? The debris that burns up in the atmosphere?

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

This feels like one AI civ making a pact with a lesser AI civ that is already bogged down in war and clearly won't win the military victory it's going for, so that once it has run the course of its use will be invaded and incorporated with the bigger civ.

They're also already been sending settlers to the African continent, if it was me I'd be restarting the game because any turn now they will conquer Asia, Europe, and Africa, and achieve either a cultural or military victory by doomstack.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip -2 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Reality isn’t a video game.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

Have you tried turning it off, then turning it back on again?

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

OH SHIT! NO WAY!

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I heard there's no respawn in RL.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Depends on who you ask

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yay! but the Ukraine war effort Boo! but less space junk! Yay! but all those just... normal Starlink customers who need internet Boo! but fuck Musk! Yay!

I'm gonna need a drink.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Blowing up satellites turns it from 1 bit of space junk into thousands...

[–] CorporalCookie@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

They're so low they'll just burn up

[–] signalsayge@infosec.pub 4 points 7 hours ago

I think by pure count, the amount of space junk would go up. The pieces would just be a lot smaller.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

How about a frozen yogurt? I call it frogurt.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Why not frozurt? It sounds less cursed!

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The frogurt is also capitalist.

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

But you get your choice of topping.

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The toppings contain regulatory capture.

Edit: That’s bad.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 85 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Yay!

Kessler Syndrome! Kessler Syndrome! Kessler Syndrome!

/s

[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 47 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Low Earth orbit means that the debris will get dragged down by the atmosphere before it becomes a cascading problem. Thankfully.

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So we can directly pollute the upper atmosphere with heavy metals? I’m sure that’s a good thing. /s

[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Happens all the time with meteors. There's a lot of atmoshpere and only so many Starlink satellites; far too few satellites to meaningfully affect anything.

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