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2016-12-06 Science & Technology

5 Things You Need To Know About The Pentagon's Preparations For Conflict In Outer Space

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 We will screw this up somehow. We'll have satellite parts engineered and made in some hostile foreign country that will have a backdoor, or the encryption will be hacked by some basement dweller or the keys will accidentally posted on the internet, or the whole system will be overly complicated like the LCS or the F-35 and just won't work or do what it's told to do.

Posted by gorb 2016-12-06 00:17|| 2016-12-06 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 In short, "our rockets always blow up".

Posted by Shipman 2016-12-06 05:41|| 2016-12-06 05:41|| Front Page Top

#3 and just won't work or do what it's told to do.
Or will work, autonomously, without control.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-06 12:15|| 2016-12-06 12:15|| Front Page Top

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