reply to post by deltaalphanovember
I'm not sure what you mean by UFOs? But it seems from your post you indicate they are the "alien masters." If there are alien masters I highly
doubt they have any problems dealing with tiny space debris because they would have faced (and dealt) with this problem already a million times
over.
There is no space "cold war." China was simply conducting a military test under the transparent cloak of knocking down an old satellite. The test
was successful for knocking down a satellite in low orbit of around 500 miles. However knocking out US Military satellites (Comm & Gps sats) require
a different technology as they orbit the planet much farther away. China has also showed the ability to use powerful ground lasers to temporarily
blind US imagining satellites flying over sensitive areas.
reply to post by OmegaLogos
All that hoopla about the Chinese kinetic missile was overblown IMO. The US can't expect the rest of the world to stand still. They have great
technologies too and are trying to perfect them in the same way we are. China knocked out one of their aging weather satellites which is a far cry
from the
1962 nuke detonated in orbit by the US.
The real problem isn't General Tso, but one of general space debris. The US space and military programs have been using a variation of the
Whipple Shield for decades to protect satellites from small "hyper velocity" micro space
debris. Larger debris are tracked by radar and catalogued. I believe what's at stake here is the debris too small to be tracked by radar but large
enough to pose a risk to existing shielding methods.
Some have suggested lasers while others have proposed electromagnetic shields. The problem with those ideas are the same problems we have with space
in general. If the design calls for something to be lifted into space this thing should be light weight, as we all know the high cost of escaping
earth's gravity.
