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1. Disguise payload as space junk 2. Design to "fall" on populated area 3. Say "oops" 4. ...
by JayGuerette 4y ago
1. Disguise payload as space junk
2. Design to "fall" on populated area
3. Say "oops"
4. ...
- raverbashing 4y agoYou're forgetting about what happens when something "falls" from the atmosphere uncontrolled
- iNate2000 4y agoBut what if it only appears uncontrolled?
- raverbashing 4y agoPeople who know how to track this stuff knows if it's uncontrolled or not
- m3kw9 4y agoMake it land on a valuable target and not make it looks suspicious?
- ethbr0 4y agoWhat payload would possibly be worth this, that wouldn't be more effectively served by a different delivery mechanism?
- matthewaveryusa 4y agoa plausibly deniable payload purpose
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoI don't think China cares. At all.
- Nextgrid 4y agoBut in this case there are plenty of other, better delivery mechanisms than disguising the payload as space junk.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoAny 'useful' payload would erase any plausible deniability. If the idea is to merely drop a piece of scrap metal on some politicians house or something, with no warhead involved, I don't think they can do that. Reentry is too chaotic for a piece of unguided rocket debris to hit a target that exactly.
- ethbr0 4y agoHow is "Chinese space junk falls on important target" plausibly deniable? Especially compared to alternatives that conceal source? It sounds good, but I'm struggling to think of a use case for (1) an important enough target to be impactful, (2) that could be effected by space debris, (3) for which there's a distinction between "we accidentally hit it" vs "we deliberately hit it"