What could possibly go wrong?
Just remember bullets go both directions and the number of satellites in orbit in this scenario would be in the 10s of thousands. Plus, with the launch capabilities that SpaceX is planning, replacing satellites could be done in short order.
Hopefully the US would have a President who would let any adversary know, any shoot down of a US satellite would mean one or more of your satellites would be shot down as well.
Identical thinking, you beat me to it.
And or dear morons in the War Department will be among the first to put everything possible into outer space. Everything computer wise needed to defend the country can be remotely disabled by lasers, missiles or some super high tech weapon.
The western world is heading towards extinction at warp speed. Why don’t we just all save some time and individually blow our own brains out? It would save our new masters, the Russians and Chinese, some time and money. /s/
You couldn’t shoot down 10000+ starlink birds if you wanted too and have unlimited budget the task is simply to large and the birds can maneuver and change orbits on command.
That ship has sailed even if you took out a thousand birds which would bankrupt any country the other 9000+ will simple fill the gaps and not even flinch.
This is the 21st century things are fundamentally different now.
Space specificity sun synchronous orbits have 24/7 sunlight and only have very short periods where the earth shadow blocks the sun. They are above clouds and space is cold very cold as in 4K cold that’s four degrees above absolute zero cold. A radiator knife edge to the sun sees nothing but cold so cold molecular motion itself slows to a crawl.
The above two reasons are why AI computing is going to space , the sun is the engine of the whole system all every sources are a rounding error to the sun as in under 1% far under 1% the sun hits the earth will a million times what humans use in an hour. Elon is 100% right solar is the end game everything else is folly on a Exajoule scale if you don’t understand the basic units we cannot even have a rational discussion as you lack the ability to do so.