Tory Shepherd – The Guardian Nov 28, 2022
It would no longer be “life as we know it” if a space war destroyed the satellites that the world now relies on, space commanders have warned, and China and Russia have demonstrated that they’re capable of doing just that.
Top brass from the US and Canada are in Sydney for an Australian Strategic Policy Institute conference on space as the new frontier in “commerce, industry, competition and war”. They have discussed the importance of working with allies, including Australia, to counter the threats posed by space war.
Lt Gen Nina Armagno, staff director of the US Space Force, said Russia’s destruction of one of their own satellites last year was a “stunning display”.
“We’re interpreting that … as a message and demonstration of capability,” she said.
Brigadier general Michael Adamson, commander at 3 Canadian Space Division (Canada’s space force), said on behalf of Canada: “no way … holy crap, this is a topsy turvy world, you can’t do that.”
“Same with us,” Armagno said.
International Space Station. Click to enlarge
Armagno said China was openly documenting and describing their demonstrations of power in space.
Asked what the end game could be, she said, “Life as we know it would no longer be as we know it.”
Attacks on satellites can take out GPS systems, banking systems, power grids, first responders’ communications, and impact on military operations, they said.
“I don’t want to be dramatic,” Armagno said.
“What does war in space look like? We probably won’t see it with our naked eye but we will definitely feel the consequences from the moment it begins.”
Armagno also described China’s 2007 destruction of one of its own satellites as shocking, irresponsible and intentional. The US was also concerned about an occasion last year where a Chinese satellite with a grappling arm moved another satellite out of orbit.
Adamson said Russia’s own space program was faltering, leaving it less reliant on space infrastructure. That in turn makes it more likely to “salt the Earth”, or destroy access to space, because it has “less to lose”, he said.
There are two ways attacks on satellites could take out communication networks. A direct attack – through anti-satellite missiles, grappling arms, or hacking or jamming a satellite – is one. The other is the debris created by a destroyed satellite. Armagno said the US was still tracking 600 pieces of debris from China’s 2007 “demonstration”.
Even a tiny piece of debris could seriously damage spacecraft such as the International Space Station, which manoeuvres to avoid them. The Russian event created 1,500 pieces of debris, which threatened cosmonauts and astronauts on the ISS.
Armagno said the US and its allies, including Australia, needed to work together to make space more resilient. That included building nimbler, smaller satellites in order to replace any that are destroyed. Australia was developing a number of such satellites and the ability to launch them into orbit, she said.
“It’s important for societies to understand the relevance of space,” Armagno said.
“It’s not space for the sake of space, it really is for likeminded countries to ensure that space is free for spacefaring nations. We all share those values.”
Air commodore Nicholas Hogan, the Australian Defence Space Command’s space capability director general, spoke at the conference about the ability of China to “outpace” Australia.
“That’s why we [Australia, the US and Canada] work together,” he said.
Hogan said the use of anti-satellite technology was a “wicked” problem.
“If somebody had done something in a terrestrial domain, air, land or sea that had a lasting impact of more than a decade, no one would have stood for that,” he said.
“But in space, there’s no laws, there’s no rules, there’s no norms … and this is the area in which we find ourselves. [It’s] one of those wicked problems.”
Scum Guardian article, not read, but I bet it doesn’t mention Amerikas X-37?
I bet is doesn’t mention US kentic space weapons used on Tianjin?
It’s a good thing that Russia has the S500 and derivatives.
Here we go: more fear porn and from The Guardian no less!!!! Who would’a thunk it? The ((( top dogs ))) probably think most people forget Reagan’s “Star Wars” BS in the 1980’s.
Doubtless, however, many “ball boys” here will swallow this nonsense hook, line and sinker.
Can you believe they have all those satellites in space, the Hubble Space telescope, the James Webb space telescope, the Clementine space telescope, manned moon landings, the Pioneer Space probes, Voyager Space probes, Venura landers on Venus, Mars Surveyor Landers, Viking, Phobos, Curiosity, Pathfinder, Phoenix? More could be added to the list. There are all those classified CIA space operations; rockets into space, rockets into space. Even Israel sent a mission to the moon which crashed but they were able to leave a note on the moon about what else, the Hollerco$t. Then there is China and they landed things on the moon more than once. The point I’m getting to, is that not one of these missions ever took a picture or video of earth. With absolute certainty and no fear of factual contradiction, I guarantee that you can look but you will never find an authentic image or video of earth from space. Go ahead, post those worthless, pathetic (((YouTube and NASA))) CGI videos with the bot comments below. Billions for space missions go into the pockets of Jews. Never to be seen again. They do the same with aid to Ukraine. The Pentagon laundered trillions and blew up the evidence in WTC 7 and their office in Washington. It’s no wonder Netanyahu is still smirking.
There is nothing man made in space and before you accuse me of being a ‘flat-earther’ I can also guarantee that the oceans and Great Lakes all have an unmistakable bulge from curvature and ships go over the horizon along with the plume of smoke from their engines. Eric Dubay and Rob Skiba, both Jews claimed that the ships could be seen again if you use a zoom lens or a telescope. They lie. Rob Skiba probably faked his death to coincide with the William Shatner’s fake trip to space after setting up a fund raising. There is nothing like taking the money and faking your death to get you out of a tight spot.
Jeff Bezo’s rocket, assuming it was real, according to MSM, went up 63 miles. Three sixes, the mark of the beast, yet again. They are not even trying to hide it anymore.
The military seem to have a law against speaking correctly: she could have said “life as we know it would no longer exist” or “life would no longer be as we know it”
Cue the Flat-Erfers! “there are no satellites as, duh, there be no space! … only a glass firmament above like it say in duh Bible!” LOL! Great article … for all the Q-tards and Flat-Erfers out there!
“Lt Gen Nina Armagno, staff director of the US Space Force”, “Brigadier general Michael Adamson, commander at 3 Canadian Space Division”, “Air commodore Nicholas Hogan”, hahaha do these assholes actually take themselves seriously? “Space force”, “Air Commodore” bwahaha ok. I’ll bet they even strut around in their absurd costumes adorned with even more absurd “campaign” ribbons for which they never actually participated in any significant, and certainly not perilous, manner.
Hannibal they most certainly are not. All three of those stooges should be strapped to the outer top of a rocket and launched into space, you know, to really check out the “battlefield”.
Great …war in space…excellent… l’ve been waiting for this one since l was five years old…
l just hope it’s more realistic than the lunar landing…
The tip of the spaceberg.
Globe = Brainwashing.
It amazes me how many people refuse to think for themselves.
The King is naked.
Right on cue Mike D pukes up flat earth, the glass firmament and throws in the Bible which says nothing about the geometry of the earth or a glass firmament. Firmament means the eternal or fixed night sky with the stars and constellations. They knew about the movement of the planets and space is real. You will never offer up a genuine image or video of the earth from space, by which I mean thousands of miles from earth. You had all those rockets, thousands of them into space and you forget to take a picture of the earth? Thousands of times? Keep believing Shlomo’s lies.
Many of words we use today have been redefined over the last two thousand years, nation meant race, world meant country and the word bread in the Pater Noster means the gospel of Christ. In fact ‘word’ itself means the incarnation of Christ. In the Gospels. This isn’t to inform the clueless who prefer to bot and repeat Jewish lies like Jesus was a Jew or Christians waiting for their sky god or it’s just Zeus warmed up or that Tartaria invented it before. Bot all you like about getting it all from India and then there is Set from Egypt. In the apocalypse, the destruction of Babylon means the fall of Rome from iniquity. Antichrist means among other things apostasy and pride. The point is simply this: your comments demonstrate an irredeemable ignorance of Christianity. You are also boring, intellectually sterile and humorless. Your best friend the Pope, is an agent of the Christ killers who were calling themselves something else two thousand years ago. What were they calling themselves back in the day when they were hollering for His crucifixion? As potus would say: C’mon man you know the thing.
Bob Smith–Yes, I can believe in the satellites and telescopes, but you seem to be jealous of the clever people, that small minority
War in Space. Oh my. That was good for a laugh!
Don’t you have to get to space first before you start talking about a war there
@ Bob Smith,
LOL! As kids are fond of saying these days: “Cool story, brah!”
There are thousands, literally, thousands of pics of the earth from hundreds of miles up. In fact, just go on YouTube: there’s a vibrant rocketry community in the U.S. southwest that regularly go to the Nevada desert and launch home-made rockets hundreds of miles up, with various POV cameras from different parts of the rocket. Over the past few years, there have been hundreds of uploads of fascinating videos.
This “no photo” craziness is perhaps the most bizarre and delusional claim of Flat Erfers. It’s like claiming that there is indeed no water in the world’s oceans. Huh? Such moronic claims debunk and disprove themselves.
But I get it, pal. You’re a “Christian” and “duh Bible is da word of God”, and this alleged “God” apparently says “the erf is flat.” Amirite?!? Whatever rocks your boat, pal.
@ lewis jones,
Go easy on these poor folk, lest their heads explode when exposed to reason, sense, and rationality!
Cheers, pal.
Quote: Hogan said the use of anti-satellite technology was a “wicked” problem.
The use of satellites to target civilians for bombing destruction, is O.K. & not wicked at all …
Mike D–it’s a shame, because some of them have political knowledge: the consolation is from lots of fun at FTFE
Mike D/lewis jones
You can’t come up with a image or video of the earth from space, otherwise you would. Notice how you redefine space as ‘hundreds of miles up’ instead of thousands of miles from earth. Nice deflection, hundreds of miles up isn’t space and your “vibrant rocketry community in the U.S. southwest” posting on JewTube “fascinating videos”…Show me a picture or video of the earth from space, don’t redefine space as hundreds of miles up. Vibrant rocketry community, I’ll bet! “Hundreds of miles up with homemade rockets” is also fantasy, even Jeff Bezos didn’t pretend to go beyond 63 miles.
You then resort to pedestrian Jewish gaslighting: “This “no photo” craziness is perhaps the most bizarre and delusional claim of Flat Erfers. It’s like claiming that there is indeed no water in the world’s oceans. Huh? Such moronic claims debunk and disprove themselves.” “But I get it, pal. You’re a “Christian” and “duh Bible is da word of God”, and this alleged “God” apparently says “the erf is flat.” Amirite?!? Whatever rocks your boat, pal.”
That’s a flimsy strawman and if you understood gravitation, not likely since you don’t appear to be all that bright, you would know that no agency on earth is capable of launching a payload into space or earth orbit. Men on the moon and a space telescope at Lagrange 2 or 3 or 4! The USSR landing a probe on Venus in the late sixties! What a laugh and fools like you are buying it.
Show me a genuine image or video of the earth from space. I’m still waiting, I want to see what the earth looks like from space. This should be good and where in the Bible does God say the earth is flat? Let me guess, you’re (cough) one of ‘his chosen’? C’mon man admit it.
@ BOB SMITH
in my eyes you are a israel troll .
i got a lot fotos 1968 from moon landing,
from moon + from earth far in space + there
are videos of astronautes jumping i less
moon gravity . israel + the jews have an
envidious interest to negate the inteligence
of former ex nazi space scientists . in fact
exnazi specialists were very welcome in
USA after the war , even in CIA . but after
Kennedy murder jewish power took over
in all USAstate institutions . the jewish
blackmailers even were able that some
intimidated astronauts denyed to have been
on the moon . it is of utmost jewish interest
to negate all german inteligence in favour
to their plagiator einstein .
Yes there are those who believe in evolution…
The big bang theory…
Our universe and all the planets moving as one across infinite space, as one in perfect harmony and in perfect orbit, in perfect time with each other.
The alternative is to believe the earth is motionless, a veritable garden created by God for his children that no one can escape from without God’s permission. And the only person who has been able to escape from earth was Jesus, and that’s because he had a pre-existence before the earth was formed.
Quantum superposition is a mathematical construct, which analogizes between radio-frequency overlay and particle wave behaviour.
Sub-atomic particles (with the exception of photons) likely don’t exist. What briefly registers in experiments as apparently characteristic signature interference, the half-cracked boffins identify as individuated hadrons or leptons. These “particles” are more plausibly construed as artefacts of induced atomic degradation and as such, represent but mere ghostings of the ether-field.
When you allow scientific fallacy to attenuate into idiocy, you get such things as multiverse superimposition; gaming theory and John Nash, poor fellow. It seems somehow appropriate, don’t you think, that a paranoid schizophrenic should have so influenced our times and minds?
If you take two consecutive numbers from the Fibonacci sequence and divide the larger number by the smaller number, the result, eventually, describes the ratio of the Golden Mean or 1: 1.61. Spirals become circles, eventually. It’s when they reach the ultimate extention of the limits of their magnetic field that spirals become circles and achieve their completeness.
History may indeed repeat itself but not in the manner usually alluded to, with attributions of tragedy and farce but rather, in the epochal iteration of the involutionary cycle of the Golden Ratio, both in nature and in man’s affairs. which brings with it, an ever-diminishing dimensional capacity of cosmic consciousness o Earth. The artifice of a war in space is an attempt to subvert the Golden Mean by mimicking the ancient texts that speak of a War of the Gods. It’s spacemongering, no less.
There are no alternative realities which include different versions of your current self, pursuing a marginally distinct quantum trajectory in space. It’s all a mathematical idea; as is gaming theory. It’s a diminution of the Golden Mean and a devolution of the species.