AND YOU DON'T!

Mwaha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Of course I'm not American so I don't own anything /_\

/_\

Thankfully us Canadians still secretly control all their nuclear missiles. Hacker Hellstorm ftw.

WHAT?!?!?!??!?!?!

What a completely and utterly UNWISE stance to take! The armament of space is, as far as I'm concerned, by far one of the WORST ideas *possible*. I thought everyone signed a bunch of treaties just to PREVENT just this sort of thing from happening. Weapons in space shouldn't even be an option. dahhhhh



Oh. Whew. I should have read the whole thing before exploding. I'll leave my vehemence up here, though, so you can see how I would react if we took any steps in the direction of weaponisation of space.

We're gonna build ourselves a Death Star, so we need to leave our options open.

Yeah I can't wait until the deathstar project is done, then some suicide bomber terrorist will blow it up in one hit.

No, a suicide bomber will blow up a giant flying warship the size of New Jersey.

We need to ****ing hurry up and start colonizing other planets and crap.

I get dibs on Rupert.

If you read the declassified document some things I noticed that were implied.

1. The United States are in the process or have already established a Space Based Military branch (which is actually old news as they've been taking member of both the Navy and Air Force since at least 1998 to begin this).

2. The United States plans and/or expects nuclear power technology to be used for space travel or in space exports in the near future.

3. The United States plans to diseminate and/or reverse engineer any civil technology that is superior to it's own before licensing it for space travel.

How is it any different from arming the air? Stopping armament isn't going to solve anything, just like gun control doesn't solve anything. It will happen sooner or later.

Plus, if we ever explore deep space, we'll want weapons. While it's more than likely our galaxy is an uninhabited boring lump, we don't know what's out there. Weapons are a good idea, even to shoot asteroids out of the way or something.

Oh, and they're also good because Bruce Willis will be dead by the time the next asteroid comes around.

It's harder to blow up stuff in space

HAVENT YOU SEEN THE MOVIES EMON

THE MOVIES

Personally, I'd love it if we had more wars in space. It sure beats the heck out of having them down here.

American Imperial Star Destroyers ftw.

Lincoln Class heavy cruiser, powered by a V-SON 37 nuclear plant, shoved through space on the back of a 920 H Class Star-Impeller, bristling with 302 heavy plasma turrets, 200 torpedo tubes, and a hangar bay loaded with 20 Iroquios 4 Gunships. NoRTech z73 heavy shield rails coat the ship in an impenatrable sphere of invisible energy. 0 to c in a matter of hours, depending on the distance from the sun. Can knock a comm satelite out of orbit with a single blow, ram a battlestation into deep space with a nudge, and Base-Delta-Zero a colony in ten minutes.

-o noes a v2 w/ nuke is coming helps plz!

Are you joking, or dumb o.o

Yes, because everytime theres a big 'lets not have any weapons like this treaty', every single country dives right in and not only signs it but actually obeys it.

Oh, wait...

Some realism here. The only reason there hasn't been a nuclear war yet is because the big boys got the nukes first. It's a simple policy. We get the next best weapon first, and we don't have to use it. The other guys know we got it, so they aren't going to use theirs. They are just lucky we're nice guys; if we were like them, we woulda used it as soon as we got it. Of course, we did do that with nukes. Atleast we'd only have to use it once. Just to make it clear who's in charge.

No, think about it. What difference will it make? ICBM's already can hit anywhere in the world by going into orbit. Everyone already has the weapons to knock out the satellites. Everything bad about space fighting already exists. If countries want to have battles in space, all I have to say is 'bout time. The further the better.

EDIT: How on earth did I mess up "ICBM" so bad?

:downs:

ICBMs.

-Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles.

Maybe you'll rethink this when a piece of space wreckage falls on you.

We can kill each other just as easily on the ground, no need to take it to space where we'll have even less control over collateral damage.

Actually, it's far more likely to a) stay in orbit, b) float off into space or c) burn in the atmosphere than than hit the earth which 3/4 water anyway.

Don't scare me with titles like that dude.

I thought the Finnish had taken over space for a second there

Besides, space battles would suck anyway, no sound.

See, now that's where you're wrong.
First off, you'd hear most of the stuff going on inside the ship or around your hull. You'd hear attacks that connect, the engines sputtering, the steady "chunga chunga chunga" sound of the batteries firing, that sort of thing.
If you have shields, chances are they're tied rather heavily into the generator, so the generator would make groaning and creaking noises as the shields came under assault.
Plus, they'd likely install simulators in the headsets so you'd be able to locate other craft in three dimensions.

-Also you'd hear the brief screams of your shipmates as the hull breaches and they're torn, along with all the oxygen, into space. As the sound dwindles out of the room and your ears pop, sound returns with a gratuitous "thud" as the blast doors slam shut.

If you shot at a ship and missed, the bullet would go on forever (or till it got caught up in some planets gravity or something) yes?

You may own space...but you DON'T OWN MYSPACE.

You really put a lot of though into that, didn't you?

[QUOTE=Rogue Leader]You really put a lot of though into that, didn't you? :)[/QUOTE]
Strangely, no. I ad-libbed. I read the "Star Destroyer" comment and just freestyled.

-The stardrive thing I stole from Childhood's End, though.

Good book, that. One of Clarke's best.

Your scientific qualifications aside, how would we go about having a war in space?

"EXCUSE ME IRAN, WE'D LIKE TO TAKE OVER YOUR COUNTRY. BUT FIRST WE'D LIKE YOU TO LAUNCH YOUR MILITARY INTO SPACE AND WE'LL LAUNCH OURS INTO SPACE ALSO AND WE CAN FIGHT THERE OKAY"

"..."

"HELLO"

:p

Your face is 3/4ths water.

Yep... There's nothing in space to fight over.

Not yet...

"Reuters reports that Iranian soldiers have occupied four Verizon satellites, and some analysts suspect they may be planning to establish a beachhead on the moon"

I read the caption of the picture as **** instead of shift at first :p