[extropy-chat] sole superpower/warfare 2003-2010 comments

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Avatar Polymorph <avatar at renegadeclothing.com.au> wrote:
> Dear extropians/transhumanists
> 
> I would welcome any comments on the following draft article.

Couple comments:

a) beam weapons on satellites are entirely within the realm of the
present (Spike can confirm this), at least according to the development
information I've seen. While the first systems to be deployed will be
the size of several tractor trailers or take up the bay of an entire
airliner, these systems are being adapted to Russian developed space
nuclear power capabilities and also operate with dynamic chemical
reactions.

b) US space preeminence has been sustained substantially by outsourcing
much subcontracting to Russian space industry, which offers excellent
engineering work at costs much lower than US industry. Just ask how
many modules of the ISS were built by Russians or based on Russian
designs. While the US will likely develop preeminence with carbon
nanotube, it is clear that with current industrial relationships in the
aerospace industry today that the US and Russia will be partners in
space development for a long time to come.

It is my opinion that the pimary challenger to US superiority in this
century will be China. Russia seems to have somewhat accepted a
supporting role to US hegemony much as the US served in a supporting
role to British hegemony prior to WWII.

The Chinese, on the other hand, have been developing a very agressive
military stance as well as an agressive space exploration stance that
plans to exceed even Russia's achievements by 2010. Chinese patriotism
is very rampant and the government plays the patriotic angle at every
chance, from the mistaken bombing of the Belgrade embassy to the
forcing down of a US observation aircraft in international waters.

While Russia has stood idly by while the US imposed peace and democracy
on two of its traditional allies (Serbia and Iraq) and conquered easily
where Russia once retreated in disgrace (Afghanistan), China has been
heavily involved in supplying weaponry to muslim nations and groups,
including al Qaeda, either outright or through their proxy state, North Korea.

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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