The chief of the US Space Force has warned that China is putting military capabilities into space at a “mind-boggling” pace, significantly increasing the risk of warfare in orbit.

“The number of different categories of space weapons that [China has] created and … the speed with which they’re doing it is very threatening,” said General Chance Saltzman, head of space operations at the US military’s recently created force tasked with protecting American interests in space.

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    8 days ago

    NASA’s headquarters are in Alabama.

    2 people managed to utterly destroy NASA and everything it stood for:

    1. George Walllace: Incensed that NASA did not enforce the rigid segregation he originally prescribed

    2. Richard Shelby: Who made sure all NASA funding went straight to Alabama and only Alabama, all contractors had to work there, and all private space funding was absolutely forbidden: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/so-long-richard-shelby-and-thanks-for-all-the-pork/#gsc.tab=0

    If we want to have a space program again, we need to take it out of Alabama, or it’s just a money faucet, the equivalent of giving inbred cavemen an electron microscope, which they then tear apart to beat each other with.