“And remember kids, the next time someone tells you “the Russians wouldn’t do that!” Oh yes they would.”
wegverve on
good, i hope they start a war with elon musk, maybe they could even throw him out of a window and make it look like an accident
hornswoggled111 on
The way Russia is melting down they would have to use a slingshot to deliver it.
bastard_rabbit on
Would they really target Starlink’s commercial satellites? I’d be more inclined to think they’d target the Starshield satellites used by the military.
MassageParlorGuitar on
Good. Now we can get back to enjoying the stars.
chippymediaYT on
Starlink? You mean the service they use on their own drones? Unlikely
asoupo77 on
Yeah, I’m not gonna worry much about that. Russia is a real-life Bond villain. Big, nefarious plans which they are inevitably unable to complete.
philipp2310 on
Honest question: What would happen if a Starship fails to achieve orbit and crashes roughly in the middle of the Kremlin?
IndividualSkill3432 on
Soyuz can get about 7 tonnes to orbit, there are about 100 tonnes of space rocks that hit Earth each day. They would need to launch about 13 just to put one days worth of micrometeorites into orbit. Even putting up 100 tonnes would take years to hit a satellite. It seems to be a wildly unpractical weapon that would consume the entire launch capacity for many years before it had a real noticable effect let alone taking down a mega constellation.
It really just sounds like a small department has managed to convince someone to fund something just to keep them in a job.
Spiz101 on
Well…. Duh?
I would if I were them.
Stolen_Sky on
*”Suspect”* is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Lamb_or_Beast on
I mean, this is pretty much exactly what people were saying would eventually happen since Starlink was first proposed. Not necessarily that Russia would be first, but that near-earth orbit is getting pretty crowded and intelligence through satellites is going to become an obviously good target when a nation is at war. I am zero percent surprised at this development.
Methodrone8 on
I feel the Kessler syndrome incoming
userousnameous on
Despite it being owned by Musk, Starlink is probably the single greatest threat to regimes like china, nk, and russia. They are the easiest route to open, uncensored information.
There’s lots of military applications too, and I was in the US government, I would working on technology to kill their uplink/downlink in different regions. I would say we are at a point today where it is way too easy for a nefarious actor or highschool student with off the shelf components to build in-country a locally autonomous but starlink-controlled/guided drone.
TeddieSnow on
Are we supposed to be surprised? Russia is running America right now thru Trump.
Tentacle_poxsicle on
I still laugh at how hard Musk simped for Russia by sparing their fleet and working against Ukraine early in the invasion only for Russia to do something like this
Russia isn’t our Ally , they may never be one with Putin and his FSB cult in charge, no matter how much dirt or money they throw your way.
DB_Explorer on
issue is one reason the military is looking at large LEO constellations is that because its not a few GEO satellites its much more resilient.. especially with satellite interlinks. You have to take down WAY more satellites…
Wrong-Ad-8636 on
good luck accomplishing that
PlanetoftheAtheists on
Why go to the trouble? Just ask Elon or purchase Trumpcoin, then get whatever you want.
Skow1179 on
I’m ready for the end. Let’s just jump to space lasers and nuke each other into the first so billionaires can live in the wasteland they’ve been preparing for.
GainPotential on
Patrolling Siberia almost makes one wish for Kessler syndrome.
sudophish on
I’m developing a teleportation device… doesn’t mean it will work though.
geek66 on
I guarantee you the US(and China) has a contingency plan for this network as well
empowered676 on
I thought musk was putins mate, hope these two eat each other like snakes
incunabula001 on
And this is how you get Kessler Syndrome.
derdubb on
They better not. My life kind of revolves around Starlink working since I live in a remote location and need the high speed service.
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“And remember kids, the next time someone tells you “the Russians wouldn’t do that!” Oh yes they would.”
good, i hope they start a war with elon musk, maybe they could even throw him out of a window and make it look like an accident
The way Russia is melting down they would have to use a slingshot to deliver it.
Would they really target Starlink’s commercial satellites? I’d be more inclined to think they’d target the Starshield satellites used by the military.
Good. Now we can get back to enjoying the stars.
Starlink? You mean the service they use on their own drones? Unlikely
Yeah, I’m not gonna worry much about that. Russia is a real-life Bond villain. Big, nefarious plans which they are inevitably unable to complete.
Honest question: What would happen if a Starship fails to achieve orbit and crashes roughly in the middle of the Kremlin?
Soyuz can get about 7 tonnes to orbit, there are about 100 tonnes of space rocks that hit Earth each day. They would need to launch about 13 just to put one days worth of micrometeorites into orbit. Even putting up 100 tonnes would take years to hit a satellite. It seems to be a wildly unpractical weapon that would consume the entire launch capacity for many years before it had a real noticable effect let alone taking down a mega constellation.
It really just sounds like a small department has managed to convince someone to fund something just to keep them in a job.
Well…. Duh?
I would if I were them.
*”Suspect”* is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
I mean, this is pretty much exactly what people were saying would eventually happen since Starlink was first proposed. Not necessarily that Russia would be first, but that near-earth orbit is getting pretty crowded and intelligence through satellites is going to become an obviously good target when a nation is at war. I am zero percent surprised at this development.
I feel the Kessler syndrome incoming
Despite it being owned by Musk, Starlink is probably the single greatest threat to regimes like china, nk, and russia. They are the easiest route to open, uncensored information.
There’s lots of military applications too, and I was in the US government, I would working on technology to kill their uplink/downlink in different regions. I would say we are at a point today where it is way too easy for a nefarious actor or highschool student with off the shelf components to build in-country a locally autonomous but starlink-controlled/guided drone.
Are we supposed to be surprised? Russia is running America right now thru Trump.
I still laugh at how hard Musk simped for Russia by sparing their fleet and working against Ukraine early in the invasion only for Russia to do something like this
Russia isn’t our Ally , they may never be one with Putin and his FSB cult in charge, no matter how much dirt or money they throw your way.
issue is one reason the military is looking at large LEO constellations is that because its not a few GEO satellites its much more resilient.. especially with satellite interlinks. You have to take down WAY more satellites…
good luck accomplishing that
Why go to the trouble? Just ask Elon or purchase Trumpcoin, then get whatever you want.
I’m ready for the end. Let’s just jump to space lasers and nuke each other into the first so billionaires can live in the wasteland they’ve been preparing for.
Patrolling Siberia almost makes one wish for Kessler syndrome.
I’m developing a teleportation device… doesn’t mean it will work though.
I guarantee you the US(and China) has a contingency plan for this network as well
I thought musk was putins mate, hope these two eat each other like snakes
And this is how you get Kessler Syndrome.
They better not. My life kind of revolves around Starlink working since I live in a remote location and need the high speed service.