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US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities

arstechnica.com US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities

Russia and China “have developed and demonstrated the ability to conduct war fighting in space.”…

The chief of the US Space Force has warned that China is putting military capabilities into space at a “mind-boggling” pace, significantly increasing the risk of warfare in orbit.

“The number of different categories of space weapons that [China has] created and ... the speed with which they’re doing it is very threatening,” said General Chance Saltzman, head of space operations at the US military’s recently created force tasked with protecting American interests in space.

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Haha, "Space Force."
Amazing what can happen when you neglect your space program for a generation.

Sucks to suck.
- We’ve been spending the last generation funneling as much money to the oligarchs as possible. We’ve seen what that did/does to Russia’s capabilities and we’re somehow surprised that it works the same way here too.
- Amazing what can happen when your "Only Real American" Talibangelicals manage to enforce their view that science is blasphemy in the face of their God who only talks to them in their heads.
  
  We are being lead to destruction by the most violently proudly ignorant among us.
We should fund military in space, says guy funded by military in space
- To be fair, determining that is exactly his fucking job right? If not him, who?
  
  NASA.
- You’re right, let’s allow China to militarize space unopposed. What could go wrong?
  
  Reminder: we were opposing such things just fine when the Space Force was just part of the regular Air Force.
Wait. Is that for real their uniform? I thought that was a throw-away joke from the series.
I think the Space Force are looking for their own funding....
Lol, any orbital war would be extremely short lived due to the Kessler Syndrome. Tho the world's leadership is definitely stubborn and dumb enough to not let such a silly thing like facts stop em.
Space Force trying to justify why they exist.
missile gap
Mozi sat is such a cool idea. https://spacenews.com/china-is-developing-a-quantum-communications-satellite-network/

Quantum entropy might even defeat timewave...
This is what happens when you’re more concerned with genociding innocent people and making like 10 guys obscenely wealthy rather than doing anything useful.
- You literally just described China.
This is the time when parts suppliers switch from EUV to warfare. Either that or some shitty stupid custom screw that holds a special EUV related shitty reactor thingamabob get used in F-16s. So then the EUV component holds up the manufacturing line.

Shoot your foot, then jump and shoot your other foot.
China spends a quarter of what the US does in military and somehow gets 5 times more accomplishments. This is either 1 a lie to get more spending or 2 gross mismanagement by the US
- China certainly could be lying.
  
  Half of the US states are purposely bankrupting their education systems to make sure that the 1 percenters are the only ones with any advantage. Even in the States that aren't actively trying to stamp out education the poor and middle class can't afford a respectable education.
  
  China is sitting on a pile of natural resources and doesn't have any problems with underpaying and working people to death.
  
  They're set up to do a lot with very little, they have a lot of people and resources and they're not afraid to educate enough people to get the job done.
  
  It's not just space, they're getting places with electric cars that we can't touch.
  
  It'll be interesting to see where all this ends up.
- Tons of information theft by china too. They stole plans too so many things it saved them billions
  
  And western companies would never resort to corporate espionage would they?
- 5:1 is less than I'd have guessed on the money. We have a capitalism problem. Contractors dont charge an honest price, they charge every penny they can get away with. MIC is just a big money printing machine for a couple dozen companies.
  
  That $45 hammer meme isn't just a meme.
  
  We have a southern problem, they know they can bribe the good ol boys for pennies on the dollar and the pork will always flow.
  
  Cut the spending, send it to states where people learned to read.
- NASA's headquarters are in Alabama.
  
  2 people managed to utterly destroy NASA and everything it stood for:
  
  George Walllace: Incensed that NASA did not enforce the rigid segregation he originally prescribed
  
  Richard Shelby: Who made sure all NASA funding went straight to Alabama and only Alabama, all contractors had to work there, and all private space funding was absolutely forbidden: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/so-long-richard-shelby-and-thanks-for-all-the-pork/#gsc.tab=0
  
  If we want to have a space program again, we need to take it out of Alabama, or it's just a money faucet, the equivalent of giving inbred cavemen an electron microscope, which they then tear apart to beat each other with.
- What are those accomplishments?

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