Russia wants to put a nuclear weapon in space. Congress has their hair on fire. Is it an EMP?

[Godboy]

Interesting that I could not find one source that explains how you would get a nuclear device close enough to do what you propose. The yield of the weapon required was also never mentioned. This is all a mental exercise with so many variables unaccounted for as to make the task impossible.

THere are long form videos that cover this topic, but here is a 1 minute video from Boston University.

 

[Godboy]

How will you calculate the intercept point and sufficient yield of the weapon to make that happen?

Math of course.

Right now we do not have the capability to launch a weapon and guide it to an intercept point much farther than the moon and there would be little possibility to calculate an effective yield to move the asteroid so it would miss. You would merely be pissing up a rope.

That isnt true. We have already moved an asteroid off course by crashing a probe into it, and it was MUCH farther away from us than the moon. Here is live footage of it.

 

[Markle]

ONCE AGAIN, PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS RIGHT!

Just a few years ago, President Trump was ridiculed by our Liberal friends for starting the Space Force.

 

[the watcher]

That's been festering for a long time, he was just in the chair when the music stopped. The problem solvers are on it, we are spending more now on the interest to the debt than we are on national defense.

 

[kyzr]

He revealed this top secret bs DUHHH

Wrong.
You have your Mikes confused. Mike Turner, not Mike Johnson.

The ‘disturbing’ intel roiling the Hill is about Russian nukes in space

The U.S. has for more than a year been concerned about Russia's potentially creating and deploying an antisatellite nuclear weapon, one of the people familiar with the intelligence said.

www.politico.com

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

THere are long form videos that cover this topic, but here is a 1 minute video from Boston University.

Again, how do you launch a nuke with sufficient yield to "nudge" the asteroid away? Spacecraft needed to carry a nuke would take years of planning to create. If we had to do this next month or even next year, it would not be possible.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Math of course.


That isnt true. We have already moved an asteroid off course by crashing a probe into it, and it was MUCH farther away from us than the moon. Here is live footage of it.

Do some research and find out how long it took to plan that mission and how large the probe actually was! als. how far was it deflected?

 

[Godboy]

Again, how do you launch a nuke with sufficient yield to "nudge" the asteroid away? Spacecraft needed to carry a nuke would take years of planning to create. If we had to do this next month or even next year, it would not be possible.

If a small probe ddlfected an asteroid, a nuke will have no problem doing it.

We wont have to do it next month or next year. We have tracked every asteroid in the solar system and none will hit us for a LONG time. Any new asteroid coming from outside our solar system will be far enough away that we will have years to prepare for it.

 

[Godboy]

Do some research and find out how long it took to plan that mission and how large the probe actually was! als. how far was it deflected?

It was deflected significantly. If it was headed for Earth, it would have been knocked WAY off course.

 

[Lone Wanderer]

My guess is that's a distraction. I'm not too worried about Putin. I'm more worried about what my own government has been doing for a while now.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

If a small probe ddlfected an asteroid, a nuke will have no problem doing it.

We wont have to do it next month or next year. We have tracked every asteroid in the solar system and none will hit us for a LONG time. Any new asteroid coming from outside our solar system will be far enough away that we will have years to prepare for it.

Yeah, right! new ones are being discovered daily.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It was deflected significantly. If it was headed for Earth, it would have been knocked WAY off course.

Where did you get that information? It's covered in brown slime and smells like shit. Are you certain you didn't pull it out of your ass!

 

[Esdraelon]

Too high up....won't affect things on the ground.
But it will destroy ALL satellites.

The most dangerous part of this threat is that IF we suddenly lose our eyes in space, we'd be faced with a "use it or lose it" scenario. ICBMs aren't as accurate without GPS but inertial navigation was well-tested and was the backbone long before GPS was a thing.

 

[Esdraelon]

Yeah, right! new ones are being discovered daily.

The one that gets us won't be seen in time. It will very likely come from behind the sun on a trajectory that makes it invisible until it's too late to do much of anything.

 

[Rigby5]

OK, so SDI isn't in play.

Russia/Putin never honored treaty commitments.

So what does the US do if Russia puts nukes in space?

What if they are positioned close to or above the US?

Wrong.
Russia has never violated a treaty, but the US constantly does.
Like the US promised "no eastern expansion of NATO" in 1991.

{...
More than thirty years have gone by since U.S. Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in February 1990 that if Germany remained part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after reunification and if the United States “maintained a presence” in that country, “there would be no extension” of NATO’s jurisdiction “one inch to the east.”1 NATO, of course, later was expanded to include not just the USSR’s former allies in Eastern Europe but even some former Soviet republics as well, and many Russians have claimed that, in taking in those new members, the NATO powers were reneging on promises that Baker and other high western officials had made as the Cold War was ending.2 The Americans, as Gorbachev himself put the point in 2008, had “promised that NATO wouldn't move beyond the boundaries of Germany after the Cold War but now half of central and Eastern Europe are members, so what happened to their promises? It shows they cannot be trusted.”
...}

Since then:
{...
Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic became NATO members in 1999, amid much debate within NATO itself and Russian opposition. NATO then formalized the process of joining the organization with "Membership Action Plans", which aided the accession of seven Central and Eastern Europe countries shortly before the 2004 Istanbul summit: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Two countries on the Adriatic Sea—Albania and Croatia—joined on 1 April 2009 before the 2009 Strasbourg–Kehl summit. The next member states to join NATO were Montenegro on 5 June 2017, and North Macedonia on 27 March 2020.
...}

Clearly the US and NATO are liars.
And the Ukraine is a treaty violator who committed acts of war.

 

[Rigby5]

Whom specifically would this harm? And why would I individually be overly concerned?

You should be concerned because almost all internet, phones, cable, etc., works from satellites these days.
If an EMP burned out all satellites, nothing on the internet, cellphones, or cable would work any more.
Only Russian stuff would work because they build it with more shielding.

 

[francoHFW]

Wrong.
You have your Mikes confused. Mike Turner, not Mike Johnson.

The ‘disturbing’ intel roiling the Hill is about Russian nukes in space

The U.S. has for more than a year been concerned about Russia's potentially creating and deploying an antisatellite nuclear weapon, one of the people familiar with the intelligence said.

www.politico.com

True. My only defence is they are both idiotic non entities....

 

[francoHFW]

Wrong.
Russia has never violated a treaty, but the US constantly does.
Like the US promised "no eastern expansion of NATO" in 1991.

{...
More than thirty years have gone by since U.S. Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in February 1990 that if Germany remained part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after reunification and if the United States “maintained a presence” in that country, “there would be no extension” of NATO’s jurisdiction “one inch to the east.”1 NATO, of course, later was expanded to include not just the USSR’s former allies in Eastern Europe but even some former Soviet republics as well, and many Russians have claimed that, in taking in those new members, the NATO powers were reneging on promises that Baker and other high western officials had made as the Cold War was ending.2 The Americans, as Gorbachev himself put the point in 2008, had “promised that NATO wouldn't move beyond the boundaries of Germany after the Cold War but now half of central and Eastern Europe are members, so what happened to their promises? It shows they cannot be trusted.”
...}

Since then:
{...
Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic became NATO members in 1999, amid much debate within NATO itself and Russian opposition. NATO then formalized the process of joining the organization with "Membership Action Plans", which aided the accession of seven Central and Eastern Europe countries shortly before the 2004 Istanbul summit: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Two countries on the Adriatic Sea—Albania and Croatia—joined on 1 April 2009 before the 2009 Strasbourg–Kehl summit. The next member states to join NATO were Montenegro on 5 June 2017, and North Macedonia on 27 March 2020.
...}

Clearly the US and NATO are liars.
And the Ukraine is a treaty violator who committed acts of war.

True, I think. Bush I also screwed with Russia. Republicans!! Russia should be offered NATO too. There are conditions!!!

 

[Godboy]

Where did you get that information? It's covered in brown slime and smells like shit. Are you certain you didn't pull it out of your ass!

I read an article about it when it happened.

They only needed to change its orbit around Didymos (an even bigger asteroid) by 73 seconds in order to be a success. Instead they changed it by 33 minutues.


Previously, the asteroid circled Didymos every 11 hours and 55 minutes. Astronomers announced in October 2022 that DART had successfully shortened the orbit of Dimorphos by 32 minutes, which one of the new studies tweaks to 33 minutes.


Imagine the impact to be like playing billiards in space: a solid spacecraft crashes into a solid asteroid, and no material is ejected. In this scenario, researchers expected that DART would shave off seven minutes from Dimorphos' orbit. (DART had only to reduce the orbital period by 73 seconds to be hailed a success.)

DART's epic asteroid crash: What NASA has learned 5 months later

We now know that we can knock an asteroid off course.

www.space.com

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I read an article about it when it happened.

They only needed to change its orbit around Didymos (an even bigger asteroid) by 73 seconds in order to be a success. Instead they changed it by 33 minutues.


Previously, the asteroid circled Didymos every 11 hours and 55 minutes. Astronomers announced in October 2022 that DART had successfully shortened the orbit of Dimorphos by 32 minutes, which one of the new studies tweaks to 33 minutes.


Imagine the impact to be like playing billiards in space: a solid spacecraft crashes into a solid asteroid, and no material is ejected. In this scenario, researchers expected that DART would shave off seven minutes from Dimorphos' orbit. (DART had only to reduce the orbital period by 73 seconds to be hailed a success.)

DART's epic asteroid crash: What NASA has learned 5 months later

We now know that we can knock an asteroid off course.

www.space.com

Asteroids hitting the earth do not orbit another asteroid. All it did was slow the orbit. The test proved nothing!