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by kidme5 735 days ago
Original leak via xAI: https://grook.ai/share?id=e269e88a7b1a71eff4f176c864b30161

Quotes & citations:

- Nature study on Mars being infeasible with Starship: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54012-0

- Gwynne Shotwell, asked whether SpaceX would launch offensive weapons into orbit, to which she answered, “If it’s for the defense of this country, yes, I think we would” https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/09/spacex-well-co...

- U.S. government to develop space-based missile defense: https://www.science.org/content/article/decades-after-reagan...

- Political speech on constructing a new Strategic Defense Initiative: "we will build a shield in space to protect our people from the unthinkable threat of nuclear weapons" https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-pla...

- Shield overlayer "would put around 1,000 networked microsatellites in orbit that would serve as both sensors and communication relays, as well as platforms for launching interceptors." https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/time-new-missile-def... SHIELD overlayer

1 comments

If you're going to downvote, please explain any disagreement with the references.
It's not a "leak" if it's literally just reading news articles and summarizing them.
You must have not read the whole thing
I read the whole thing and I don't see any evidence of leaked information. It's synthesizing this argument from public information and reasonable inferences but not any privileged information.

It is hardly the first one to connect these dots. I and many others came to these same conclusions years ago when it became apparent that SpaceX had the ability to execute on the Starlink plan.

It's not a leak.