I certainly hope so.
Everywhere we’ve learned to fight, we’ve learned to live.
As a species we need more than one place to live.
Hope so.
Is Musk involved?
Will he see if pot can be grown in space?
Much ado about nothing.
Larry Bond wrote a novel about the need to get a weaponized aircraft in space in a very short time frame. The characters were granted authority to do what needed to be done and to be able to bypass all the time wasting bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo in favor of the critical mission.
After reading I wrote the author and suggested the book be re-written as a business manual. He told me he’d never thought of it that way.
Side note, my kid works in the space industry and I think he’s secretly hoping to get drafted into Space Force.
We militarized space when the x-1 program broke the sound barrier. It used military panes, piloted by military pilots, taking off from military bases. All this was before NASA was formed which was dependent on military contractors and military pilots.
Be that as it may, Elon Musk is not building direct ascent ASAT missiles. He and other entrepreneurs are not putting giant lasers on jumbo jets.
China and Russia are quite serious about preparing to conduct combat operations to degrade or destroy our space-enabled capabilities if things "get real." They are also trying to emulate our capabilities. We need to be equally serious.
We are not starting a military space race.
We are finally NOTICING that the Russians and Chinese have been busy engaging in a military space race, and hopefully will get STARTED while we still have time.
Pay for it. Hilarious.
“Start”?
We are merely joining something already in process by our enemies.
Somebody needs to protect all those civilian satellites out there. They donot have built in self defense capabilities.