War in orbit???

You can't launch a missile today without the GPS satellite networks.
The whole satellite network would be taken out.

The weeks notice is real unless you can convince me there is something
that can move 300 000 km in less than a week.

Bill

--- In spacesettlers@y..., Al Globus wrote:
> You are making the classic mistake: compare today's Earth with
tomorrow's
> colony. By the time a colony is built the Earth will have MUCH
greater
> space capabilities. Forget your week's notice. And there won't be
one
> missle, there will be thousands (or more). They will attack from
different
> directions. There will be countermeasures to confuse sensors, etc.,
etc.,
> etc.
>
> Bill wrote:
>
> > Nonsense, the normal radiation sheilding the colony has would be
more
> > than adequate sheilding. Even if it wasn't, the colony has one
week
> > notice minimum that a launch has taken place. Given that kind of
time
> > scale, a colony could easily redirect the missle.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > > It wouldn't even take a direct hit of the colony to kill it.
> > > Detonate a nuclear weapon within a few tens of kilometers and
the EM
> > > spike would fry all their electronics. Something like that
could be
> > > launched using today's technology, and could probably be
launched
> > > within a few hours, given the need.
> > >
> > > ed
> >
> --
> Al Globus
> aglobus@m..., (650) 604-4404
> http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html
>
> The dinosaurs weren't spacefaring. We are. I don't think that's an
accident.
>
> Maybe we are life's taxi to the stars.
>
> I think we should:
>
> 1. Devote half of NASA's budget ($7 billion) to reaching NASA's 2020
goal of
>
> reducing launch costs to Low-Earth-Orbit to $220/kg with a 0.01%
failure
> rate.
> This should enable space tourism. The resulting orbital hotels will
need to
> develop efficient orbital life support and other necessary
technologies.
>
> 2. Build orbital space colonies. The materials in the largest
asteroid are
> sufficient for orbital colonies with a combined surface area about
500 times
>
> greater than Earth's. Eros alone could make over ten thousand space
> colonies,
> each with about about 10 square kilometers of 1g living area.
>
> 3. After a few generations of orbital living, people won't need
their colony
>
> to be near Sol. Then small groups of colonies with populations in
the
> tens-of-thousands can set out on multi-decade journeys to nearby
stars.