Excerpt from All Tomorrows by CM Köseman:> Most thinkers (and fantasists) of previous times had imagined interplanetary waras a glorious, fast paced spectacle of massive spaceships, one-man fighters and last-minute heroics. No fantasy could have been further from the truth. War between planetswas a slow, nerve-wracking series of precisely timed decisions that spelled destruction onbiblical scales.>Most of the time the combatants never saw each other. Most of the time thecombatants were not there at all. War became a duel between complicated, autonomousmachines programmed to maximize damage to the other side while trying to last a littlelonger.>Such a conflict caused horrendous destruction on both sides. Phobos, one of Mars’moons, was shattered, and rained down as meteorite hail. Earth received a polar impactthat killed of one third of its population.>Barely escaping extinction, the peoples of Earth and Mars made peace and re-forged a united solar system. It had cost them more than eight billion souls.Sounds to me like the most realistic take on what space combat would actually look like. The technology you’d need to achieve an interplanetary warfighting capability is not too far off from the present >powerful computers/AI that can simulate the movement of planets and calculate exactly where and when an interplanetary weapon should be fired are - we already have computer programs like GMAT and Uchuu/Flamingo that can do this >developing missiles that can enter space and travel to another planet with a big enough payload to make the trip worth it seems almost trivial given our propensity for launching shit into space since 1969>autonomous spacecraft or even space drones could be made possible by scaling up what is already being deployed on battlefields across the world today It seems to me that the only real obstacle would be cost, and of course colonising Mars in the first place.
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>>65332173>powerful computers/AI that can simulate the movement of planets completely unnecessary, a primitive astronomer with a backyard telescope can do this>developing missiles that can enter space and travel to another planet with a big enough payload to make the trip worth itOrion nuclear bomb spaceships can carry a multigigaton nuclear fusion warhead with 1960s technology>autonomous spacecraft or even space drones could be made possible by scaling up what is already being deployed on battlefields across the world today A correctly trained World War 2 pigeon guidance system can hit targets more often than notInterplanetary war could have been done with 1960s tech. Big factories build the nuclear spaceship bombs. Jewish psychologists train the pigeons on pictures taken by analog cameras through backyard telescopes. Hundreds of Orions are launched on trajectories aimed by white men with slide rules. It would take less than a month to impact, at which point continent-frying airbursts to wipe out all soft targets and province-shaking groundbursts to destroy buried fortress factories would ensue.
>>65332173>missiles that can enter space and travel to another planet with a big enough payloadIf you can send a missile to another planet, your drive is your weapon.
>>65335103SpaceX Starship can reach Mars with just 70 refuelings in LEO. Are its rocket engines a doomsday weapon?
