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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8153003" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya! Yeah, that makes sense I guess. I mean, shooting a MOAB at a space station would kill everyone on it as the space station exploaded...but riddling it with .50 bullets and a half dozen RPG's would do very little...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />..Please note the  "<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />"...In space, a high-powered pellet gun has the potential to kill everyone on board a space station, shuttle, ship. The definition of "WMD" is mostly irrelevant when talking about 'ship to ship' combat or attacks against, say, a moon base of our current and foreseeable future. I get the original INTENT... which was to stop countries from placing nukes directly over target countries so that they could just "nuke them from orbit" because there would be very little to zero warning, and very hard to tell just WHO actually launched the weapon (it's trajectory would be "from space", not "from Country X" or "from location YZ")...Space need to be seen as NEUTRAL TERRITORY, akin to the Antarctica, but more so. There should be a RIDICULOUS penalty for stirring up shtuff in space for ANY "entity" (country, person, company, etc). HUGE penalties. Like, "you can't afford to do this or your country is in the doghouse, worldwide, for the next 100 years" kind of penalty. Basically, mutually assured destruction...but more of a 'personally assured suicide'. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />..If space ISN'T considered "NEUTRAL GROUND" and open to ANYONE who goes there...country, religion, company, or individual...then it's ONLY going to end in pain and suffering. I can guarantee that. You want to put a base on the Moon? Go for it. Your rival wants to put a base on the moon 100km from you? Go for it. You then walk over and sabotage your rivals base? ...OOOHHHH NO.....NO NO NO...you dun stepped in it now, boyo! The result of such a thing should be immediate, swift, decisive, and permanent action from everyone else; in short, the aggressor just gave up their base, personnel and anyone on it, and must pay for EVERYTHING related to EVERYONE's response to the aggression. As I said...you attack someone in space... you're signing your own death warrant.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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