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0 pointspjkundert5y ago0 comments

Denial of your opponent’s access to the battlefield is “table stakes” in the next war.

I assure you — all terrestrial and major satellite up/downlinks will cease within minutes of the next major conflict starting.

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BenoitP5y ago

Well, in case of a global thermonuclear war I think we'll have bigger problems than some transactions being reversed.

curryst5y ago

You don't have to work nearly that hard to cut off internet access to many countries. Satellites are relatively easy to destroy if you're willing to ignore the debris it creates.

Undersea cables are easy to cut. Land based lines are easy to cut. Unless the locations of these cables are well hidden (which I don't believe they generally are), you could easily severe all of a country's internet connections in a couple of days.

Ancapistani5y ago

> Satellites are relatively easy to destroy if you're willing to ignore the debris it creates.

I agree, but someone here made a good point in the last thread about this: in a couple of years, they plan to have 42,000 StarLink satellites active. That’s a lot of very capable missiles.

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