yeah it's cool

i'd be concerned about weaponizing space though tbh

going back to orbital railguns or something, that just gives the controller of that system the ability to obliterate anything you want, anywhere at any time without any of the consequences of deploying nukes

that's a lot of power to put in the hands of one government with no balancing

i think we signed a treaty or something not to weaponize space, but with the whole space force thing not sure if that's out the window or not

From my understand we've signed a treaty that doesn't allow for WMDs in space

But ship to ship or ship to satellite "combat" should be fair game

And let's be honest, if you took out a country's satellites and disallowed use of your own to them they'd be struggling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

"It exclusively limits the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations, and fortifications (Article IV)"

"However, the Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit and thus some highly destructive attack strategies such as kinetic bombardment are still potentially allowable."

i guess that answers my question

Honestly from what I'd heard about kinetic bombardment I figured they'd be classified under WMDs, but ey I'm not complaining lol

there's probably a line somewhere where it becomes a WMD if it destroys a large enough area or something

ie the size and speed of projectiles you're sending down

although the definition of WMDs is pretty contentious as far as i know

Yeah probably, I just don't know those numbers lol. I just figured with the way the US works we'd go big or go home

yeah

imagine the butthurt though if we put kinetic bombardment weapons into space

"AMERICA HOLDS WORLD AT GUNPOINT"

Haters gonna hate hate hate~

Unless we go full on socialism the world's gonna hate, so fuck em

problem is eventually another evil globalist type is going to become president and have access to these weapons

You're right, one day we won't have our shitposter in chief 😢 I try not to think about that yet

I'm praying that my boat will get a presidential unit citation from him though. Would be one of my prized possessions.

which boat?

SSN-23 USS Jimmy Carter

oh nice

Historically we've gotten similar awards and our predecessors have gotten them as well. It'd just be nice knowing I was wearing it from the god emperor himself 😛

no fucking way i'd want to be in a submarine though lol

Honestly it's not as bad as it seems

the ocean is scureh

Just imagine your house is attached to your workplace and you never leave either

I'm not overly attached to much so going away for months at a time with little to no contact isn't too much of a biggie for me. All that sucked was that I only had the same 500 songs to listen to and my phone broke half way through our last deployment XD

lol

i think i'd just be slightly phobic of the idea of being underwater for an extended period of time

Depending on your job you may not even notice XD I spend the majority of my day on the boat, so going underway/underwater was the same shit except I didn't sleep in my bed at my house.

When you actually notice you're underwater is when you're close to the surface and the boat rocks back and forth

Which is also the best sleep you'll get

yeah i love being on surface boats. the motion is so relaxing

same with flying