Yes, China was short sighted in two ways on this one. Not only is it destabilizing... especially since it should be widely apparent that America has the most satellites to lose and China has always been unappreciative of any info ops on them (of which American satellites are part of a tool to do). Of course the Western nations are protesting, they've got the most to lose on it.
The second reason it was stupid of China to do this is that it provides a perfect justification for the United States to arm its satellites with missile defenses... and that's actively putting weapons in space. From there it's just a short hop over to putting offensive weapons platforms on a space vehicle/satellite, and that will allow global strikes at whim. Weaponizing space is a BAD idea, if you ask me.
2007-01-19 06:49:37
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answered by promethius9594 6
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Space has been militarized from the very beginning. The Russians had an anti-satellite capability in the 1970's and the US had an experimental anti-satellite weapon in the 1980s.
Everybody stopped making the anti-satellite weapons because they are seen as destabilizing. China's testing of such a system is reckless and short-sighted because having this capability makes people suspect that you want to launch a sneak attack.
2007-01-19 05:41:55
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answered by MikeGolf 7
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>Atheists, how do you adult men clarify the fast progression of technologies interior the previous one hundred or so years? that is a bootstrapping procedure. New ideas allowed human beings to dedicate more effective regularly occurring attempt in direction of more effective technology and engineering, allowing them to come back up with more effective ideas, and so on. each paradigm shift in any particular field laid the beginning for concept for the era of a much wider and larger valuable variety, boosting the performance of human beings engaged on such issues. An accelerating develop in technologies is strictly what we may anticipate. >do you imagine its probable a nasty concern interior the overall evolution of mankind to bypass ahead with invention so quick? it would want to be. so some distance the benefits have outweighed the costs, yet actually shall we yet deliver about our own destruction by ability of technological ability, destruction which will were prevented if we had lengthy gone about it slower and had more effective time to evolve our biology and sociology to our technologies. on the different hand, you may want to easily as somewhat make the option argument: If certainly there's a 'secure spot' interior the destiny the position technologies will conquer the topics of human nature (and that is searching further and extra like there is), then slower progression might want to have left us with a much wider span of chance in which to interrupt ourselves. finally, time can ought to inform- yet for sure, that does no longer advise we should not be operating to make our destiny a secure one.
2016-10-15 11:06:16
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answered by jackson 4
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already happened years ago with the space shuttle, if they can go up there and fix the broken hubble telescope what stops them from doing the exact opposite,just cause the shuttle fleet has not been used as a weapon system does not mean it cant be used that way ,much like sailing ships of old just cause a ship is not part of a navy does not mean it cant be used as such in a national emergency,so my point is it is a de facto reality of today not tomorrow
2007-01-19 05:27:12
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answered by Dan B 4
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Yes with Red China's last successful rocket attack to knock out satellites it's coming fast. Oh yeah, the USA protested (lol).
2007-01-19 05:17:20
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answered by Adi 2
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"Militarization of space"???
RELAX. It's just one satellite the Maoists shot down.
2007-01-19 05:14:25
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answered by ? 5
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