Russian Anti-Satellite Weapon Causes Emergency On Space Station 

Hits the same for me. Considering they are not flying in space.

Yes, that it did.

Fly safe, while you still can.

Fly Safe FFS!!!

Scott has been manfully trying not to say "reckless endangerment" , which touches on criminal allusion. He doesn't like to diss state actors. So he says "whole other level of stupid"

I felt it

Military showboating, either gone wrong or with utter disregard for all others, or both. Typical Soviet behavior. I'm a U.S. Air Force veteran, and they'll still be my enemies long after I'm dead.

It's the same tone a mother tells her son: ok, you can go out, but this time, try not to do anything too stupid. Knowing that he is, infact, going to do something stupid.

No one will say what weapon it was, is what's scary. Was it a new missile, energy weapon, or the new satellites that Russia deployed that is like a nesting doll and deploys a secondary satellite that can maneuver on its own to destroy other satellites. The nesting doll satellite was following a top secret American spy satellite for a while. Would be nice if they say what device blew up this old Russian satellite.

@@mwara2444 Based on the debris trajectory, It was a ballistic weapon, not an energy weapon. The stupid thing about this attack was that explosive devices aren't needed - a satellite killer basically just needs a harpoon and some extra propellant to drag the target out of orbit. Game over. Maybe a spear to damage a solar array that would disable any gyros as they'd spin down fairly quickly in response to an assault they weren't designed for.

Raygun's Star Wars plan, for instance.

@@RyanBlackhawke Ah, Reagan's SDI? Yes... Thankfully, it pretty much fizzled out, but one never knows when a similar hare-brained scheme might be resurrected.

US P78-1 Solwind shot down 1985 and USA 193 shot down 2008 both by America.

@@LEO-xo9cz Yes. The former had the orbit very similar to that of Kosmos-1408 (~550km polar), so the debris cloud was probably similar, too. The latter was in a much lower, already deteriorating orbit, so that was a bit less harmful. To be fair, 37 years ago there was much less useful stuff up there to be endangered. But still...

@@AndrewOfforjebe Errr... Huh?

For what ever reason the stupid are the majority.

@@MegaTriumph1 Sadly, you're totally right. And the worst thing is that 99% believes to be part of the smart minority.

@@speed65752 and the 1% who doesn’t, actually is.

@@damocles8417 So even that 1% aren't real bright, then.

Simultaneously clever enough to build these weapons and stupid enough to use them.

Unfortunately, there's basically nothing you can do to "fly safe" when you're dealing with an expanding cloud of hundreds/thousands of undetectable objects coming at you at orbital velocities. All you can do is try to be ready as you can for when the faecal matter hits the rotary air circulator.

"Fly safe. This is a threat."

It was like "What do I always tell you? Why don't you listen!? Now, really, 'fly safe'!"

The part he didn't say but we could all see on his face was "goddammit."

cost effective weapon

Any space enthusiast would have

@@starizard42 underrated comment imho. 😂✌🏻

Pretty much everyone. Unlike most people I don't think for a moment that Russians did it mistakenly or screwed up. They did it intentionally, reason idk. I can only guess that it was them pushing US and others to a serious weapon ban treaty regarding outer space. But it was surely intentional.

Kessler Syndrome...

Generals off the leash are the most dangerous people on Earth, with the exception of pyromaniacal psychopathic leaders of a nuclear armed countries. So far, thankfully, our leaders have only been incompetent and corrupt.

Today, "asshole" implies malice when applied to a person. For example, Urban Dictionary says that an asshole is, "A person who is intentionally cruel, obnoxious and heartless." Spaceballs used the somewhat antiquated meaning of "asshole," which had more to do with stupidity or incompetence. Merriam Webster covers both old and new connotations with "a stupid, annoying, or detestable person."

Hmm not a-holes but they are typicially refered to as (brown rounds)

space junk; what ever happened to the vacuum in Spaceballs?

An asshole would have hit that satellite from an other angle. Not the angle that sends most debris retrograde/slowed them down/make them deorbit pretty quickly

Москва: Очень хорошо, продолжайте с следующим фазам испытания! Контрольный пункт в Сибири: Да, есть!

I was going to say, I doubt I'm the first to say this, but maybe Russia heard Scott's outro and just wanted to allow him to make a completely perfect video for his outro.

yup, they will continue until a falling satellite destroys Kremlin... no need to heed warnings before that happens

@@bentos117 You forget that the Kremlin and Moscow are protected by S-500. I'm delighted the test is a success, it means that in a hot war American space assets can be taken out. This is very good news, because it lowers the confidence of the Pentagon, which in turn makes a hot war with Russia less likely. You don't want a hot war with Russia, because eventually that would end with the use of nuclear weapons. Which would simultaneously be launched from strategic bombers, stealth submarines, navy ships and a lot of silos in Siberia. Never mind all the missiles that are continuously on the move on trucks and trains. They will mostly get through because the protection of civilians against a nuclear strike is not a priority in the US. In fact, there is no bomb shelter for you. The only people who will be able to take shelter and who will be under the dubious "protection" of THAAD will be the filth that started the war. Their shelters have indoor golfing and spas and serve gourmet food. While they are having steak and lobster dinner and having a good time, you're going to be breathing in the radio nuclides from the fallout on your knees while you are trying to bust open a can of dog food with a rock.

@@statinskill ye ye... will talk to you when Putin finally blows up Mother Russia... not "if", but "when" :D... Chernobyl was a warning, you didn't learn anything

I think they had to wake the crew up early with this news. There was a transmission at 6am space station time with a warning anyway. Not the way anyone wanted the day to start.

It was a Monday morning. Just because these things always greet you on a Monday morning. ;)

There's a button for that at staples, "What the Fuck?". It prompts all senior officials to the big screen.

Imagine if there's a Russian in the crew at this moment, all the others slowly turning their head towards him/her ...

wondering did a test really endanger ISS ( basically a russian station as well) or is all this more western nervousness because russia test was success ?

this needs to happen

The Kessler Syndrome has already started. It's just not as fast and dramatic as shown in blockbusters movies.

Are we going with current safety standards? Or going with the "It is IMPOSSIBLE to get into space" model.

@@absolutefolly2011 are you aware that the more you sanction us the worse it becomes for an average Russian citizen, not for people in power? They continue to drive mercedeses, swim on yachts and pay less for a living than russian workers living near them. You shouldn't sanction them, you should arrest all and every bank accounts of them until there's none left.

Sure, kessler syndrome at a 450km orbit. Do you not understand orbital decay?. Kessler syndrome below 600km is impossible for more then 5 years or so.. Also, have you people forgotten all the other nations (including the US) that did similar tests.

'pissed' normally means 'drunk' - I don't think he was, but he may be 'pissed off'... British English difference maybe?

dude has been pissed for years now , if you go back and watch older videos he was a different person. back when this was a gaming channel and less scott's opinion soap box.

@@stepheneyles2198 'pissed' and 'pissed off' are generally interchangeable in American English, in my experience.

You can't fly in space

@Aaron “they not flying, their orbiting”. Seriously? You’re casting stones about being uneducated?

@@drink15 true you orbit

Falling with style.

which really doesnt work as weapon.

@@SSGTWinters how so? A weapon doesn't need to explosively destroy something, it just needs to effectively disable the target.

I'd expect pulling it into the atmosphere to be pretty destructive no matter how it's done. And effective at disabling it.

@@jojo-pk no, if you can manage to match orbit, attach to your target and have enough fuel for a deorbit burn you can do that without creating a cloud of garbage. the first part though require so much more fuel and planning than just shooting a suborbital slug that intercepts the target

@@Daniel-yy3ty how do you fit a device like that to an aircraft

“Huston in the blind, I am off structure and spinning.”

Humans are space orks Aliens: "Why are your civilian spaceships covered In armour??" Humans: Ya see we have a ton uv satellites we shoot up 'der, an' den we blew some up too. So 'der iz more stuff up 'der now an’ we had ta put weapon's on our ships so dey don't brake. but dat jus makes more stuff. So we said fuck it, an put armour on everyth'n.

@@rzu1474 Don't go into stand up.

@@showmemo3686 M8 I prefer to stay seated

how do you spell satellite wrongly twice when it's in the title of the video you're watching?

@@jusesjimmybars Practice?

When I saw some articles on it yesterday, this is the first place I went for info lmao, I knew it would only be a matter of time before he broke it down

Ewww. Don’t watch the news!!

Scott certainly suffered a breakdown...

@@jjeherrera As did the Kosmos sat

@@danniguerin4178 lmaoooo don't make fun of the deceased

Yep. USA vetoed all such treaties

US doesn't want treaties. They believe they will win the arms race.

IIRC, there is already a treaty on weapons in space, and the terms are "no weapons in space".

Hahaha you and your treaties

@@valentinmagnenat3159 lol as if the people who want to conquer us would abide by a piece of paper

Even if we could, there’s no way we could make an emf powerful enough to repel debris moving 2 kilometers per second in the opposite direction XD

@@jambothejoyful2966 Well all I know is scientists are trying to make a powerful force field for spacecraft for dealing with space debris by using plasma and powerful magnets to keep said plasma in place around the craft as a large bubble and make space walks safer.

Honestly my dude

Sadly after this video not anymore. :(

Fly safe... Or else.

Should have been, "FLY SAFER!!"

Came here to say the same thing lol!

True

I got the distinct impression that Scott Manley is some sort of eldergod that is disappointed in our space performance and we are going to be grounded if we pull any more of this shit.

PULL!

There always is, but now there's more.

More like flak, not birdshot

“Wait, there’s birdshot flying around the earth at 10x the speed of birdshot?” “Always has been.”

Birdshot is relatively low velocity, so it's much closer to 25 times the speed of regular birdshot.

I see the light.

Where is that at? Sounds interesting

rookie astronauts still means hundreds of hours of training.

@@5Andysalive obviously, they aren't going to have completely unqualified people up there.

Yes!! I did wonder if that's what caused the 10-11 year(ish) change in altitude degradation!

earth is constantly fed with solar wind, together with fossil fuel burnoff/outgassing earth has never had more atmosphere

@@replica1052 Has it never? (Honest curious question)

@@redstar956 and the rising sea levels give the tidal forces more grip as in more geothermal activity/vulcanoes

@@redstar956 It has probably had more mass, but it's plausible there's more light elements at a higher temperature now than ever before. Then the upper bounds of the atmosphere would be at their highest ever. But I rather doubt that's the case. If we take CO2 concentrations up to about 1000ppm the equilibrium temperature at the surface is high enough to kill humans up into the subtropics (when combined with water, that is). And it has been even warmer before.

Life should not be imitating art like this.

Yeah I was talking to a friend on FB about this glaring stupidity on behalf of Russia and to communicate the danger involved I referred her to that very scene from Gravity. I rewatched the bit myself and was unpleasantly reminded that it was THIS VERY THING that destroyed Explorer (and so much more) in that movie! Arrrrrrghhhhhh. The recklessness and lack of concern displayed here is just mindboggling. Edited to fix "Endeavor" whoopsie. TY Desktop Orbinaut. ;-)

What's funny is that I had just watched Gravity a few days before this event, and then when I heard that the Russians actually did it in real life, I thought I was hallucinating!

I didn't remember what caused all the space debris in the movie so I googled and you're right! It's like they decided to enact the plot in real life

@@limiv5272 Right? Like the Russian military are fans of Sandra Bullock or something.

I was hoping he'd firmly plant his fist down and said "gosh darnit".

unused tarkin quote

"Dantooine......they're on Dantooine."

@@davidharrison7014 I find your lack of faith disturbing.

As a russian, I can totally see that! All I can say is, "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed".

Pray I don't alter it any further!!

they seem to want to actively initiate Kessler syndrome

Thankfully Kessler syndrome can't occur in these sub 500km orbits. The debris simply deorbits too fast.

@@VG_164 temporary Kessler syndrome can (100+ years)

@@Greenmasterone move that 100 down to 20. since most of the debris would lose speed and de-orbit at that pace (for example the starlink sattelites would deorbit in around 5 years after no longer having fuel to keep em up. and they're at 440 km)

@@romanplays1 can you imagine 20 years without connection to the world? we aint even gonna reach the 20 years before we blow each other up with nukes

“Borscht”.

Boršč.

Borscht isn't rusian but "shchi"

Da

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I gather Russian is a great language to swear in.

Yea.... when they all gather to hear the news... and the rest of the crew stares at the russians... what is said next?

I’m not entirely joking when I say that they’re probably somewhat hesitant to say a whole lot negative about what their government did. I know that cosmonauts (like astronauts) tend to be scientists/engineers who just want to do space stuff and don’t really care about the stupid politics crap. But Russia’s been on a rather concerning track lately regarding people who speak ill of the nation’s space activities etc.

Imagine if North Korea or Afghanistan had this... *dOomSDaY mUSiuC*

Veto

france and britain will hug american legs as usual, they dont need independent capability. hell british nuclear arm is barely independent of the us with lots of people thinking its straight up american controlled.

Just you wait

Nobody listens to the UN anyhow. All the UN does is waste money and demand "favors" from africans for food.

You caught that too, huh?

Some people aren't so obsessed with it that it drives every possible comment they could make. Those people are refreshing.

@@watcherofwatchers this is the internet, you cant escape the memes

@@JohnDoe-tx8eu Drug culture is dull and uninteresting.

@@watcherofwatchers your sense of humour (or lack of) is dull and uninteresting

They took it personally 😂

Underrated comment

😂 but if real, it's not funny at all

Pretty much

Exactly! 2 Russian capsules mistakenly rocked the ISS hard recently. A hole drilled? Good grief!

...if you can!

“Here, we’ll save you the trouble of having to wait about an actual collision happens to see how bad things get 🙂”

Could we use insanely powerful lasers to destroy space debris possibly?

How about "let's put anywhere between 4000 and 40000 of 250 kg satellites into the LEO and hope nothing will collide ever" and "blame it on Russia anyway because it's the only thing we can do".

@@Number1FanProductions Nope.

@@Number1FanProductions I think that has been proposed as one potential method of cleanup. Technical concerns aside, you still have to figure out where the pieces of debris are in the first place though. Edit: To clarify, I read the comment as “lasers”, which I think was the intent. For the record, I do not think using “losers” to clean up space debris is particularly viable. 😄

Actually Russia did propose such thing to forbid space weapons. USA declined it.

@@goodfis624 Referring to ban tests not weapons. No point in a ban no country can afford to obey. These are so stupid don't need to actually hit anything just fire the missile see if it gets to were you want it and test the explosive warhead separately .

Lets be a little realistic here. Every major nation on this world is preparing for war right now. The military spendings of China, Russia and the US have raised quite a bit. Also from every nation in the proximity of China. All of these nations want to protect themselfs if a war breaks out. 1.) They want to shoot down ICBMs that carry nuclear warheads to protect their infrastructure and also major cities 2.) They want to shoot down enemy spy satellites, so they can safely move troops for the conventional warfare Somehow you want to test those weapons to be sure they are good enough to do the job right in case shit is hitting the fan. Also those tests show the capabilities of a nation. Basicly you are saying: "Look, you cant hurt us enough with a preventive strike. We will and we can retaliate. Oh, and we will make it really hard for your commanders to say where the targets are and where we will strike." No country will sign such a treaty. Even if that means that their own space program is in danger. Satellite collisions are still very rare, and dont have enough impact on the economy to force those countries into a treaty. At least not when you consider "national security" as a reasoning behind all that. I am not saying those tests or militaristic reasons are good. But I am saying that we, sadly - as species - need military and we need deterrent strategies to keep us in a state of peace.

@@RedRocket4000 you probably don't know the "Integration test" concept.

@@Gentleman...Driver I feel there's an important and distinctive difference between the species "needing" the level of military we have, and this simply being the path that has been chosen by the facists, dictators, and politicians in the pocket of military contractors.

Dye your hair brown, change your name to james brown and it will start shining thru.

@@ronaldpoe3305 Ok Edgar Allen Reagan

I've said for years that we need an orbital collection system that feeds the orbital recycling and materials research lab. It costs so much to put anything in orbit, that it makes sense to keep all that high-quality stuff up there and reuse it, instead of turning it into air pollution and junk on the ocean floor. Create jobs, improve our space presence, and clean up our space. Let's go!

USA has a Space Force. They have to do drills. Practice on junk seems like good practice. Maybe they will show us a drill about an Alien Invasion. Maybe we'll think it's real.

People scared of something that doesn't hit them directly like the Kessler syndrome or ISS rotation or starship exlposion when the real scared thing is already above their heads: Boeing x-37b with nuclear weapon is flying in orbit for years.

Yes, but we should be learning from past mistakes, not repeating them. If you note, Scott talked about the Indian ASAT test. That was done a lot more responsibly as they hit an intentional target and all the debris rapidly reentered. +1 for India! Russia, China...not so much.

@@flechette3782 USA not so much either. These aren't mistakes they are deliberate acts. The USA has made its space assets valuable military targets. Of course they are countered.

id be sleeping in it hehe

i'd be nailing blocks of lead to the outside of ISS.

@@HarryNicNicholas There's three problems with that... 1) Getting the lead up to the station. 2) Actually managing to attach the lead to the station. 3) All that extra mass will make orbit corrections much harder if not impossible.

@@InternetGravedigger it was a joke

I would prefer to be hugging the inside of one at that point, afraid that if something happened, I wouldn't have enough time to put it on.

communist moment

So far these have been victimless tragedies. It won't be until someone or something important dies - potentially years or decades later - that there will be sufficiently tangible consequences.

@@mathewferstl7042 Who is the communist in this?

@@r3dp9 Something important has died, more area of space in LEO is now unusable for as long as the debris remains a hazard in that area

USA have dozens of satellites for military purposes in orbit. More than any other nation

what does manley means?

Well at least GPS is still working

@@Feefa99 Kim: "Hold my soju"

@@MrTridac GPS is now just one of many similar systems. At least most civilian systems should manage without it.

@@Feefa99 Yeah, GPS is still functioning... for now.

@@samiraperi467 most major countries either have, or are working on their own gnss constellations. Most are pretty high up. (About 20,000km.) However, is something started damaging one of the constellations, most others could be at risk. It would put a damper on the global economy. Even at the civilian level, a lot depends on it.

No, more probably like: "No one allowed to have internet, which is bypassing our KGB servers"

@@user-uo4qi3ip8n Trump will restore kremlin access don't worry.

thankfully the starlink sats are higher in orbit, more like Russian military be like, "we said we wanted out of the ISS"

@@tylermcnally8232 who?

Wouldn't be surprised Jeff bezos paid Russia to start a domino effect to take out Elon's starling !

-ski is the end of Polish family names... Russians have -ov

@@Bialy_1 "The Polish share in our Problems" Mother Russia 1939.

Lol the last thing Putin would be is a communist

Also could talk about if/how the ISS and Chinese Station could be merged via orbital adjustments.

No, the question is will you pay for that? Money isn’t cheap recently even for con-artist Elon.

@@yeyuan6273 I agree, but the theoretical is still fun/interesting; don’t be a buzzkill

@@ericlotze7724 NO, while you are being crazy, we solber people are running the world.

@@ericlotze7724 changes in orbital inclination are really really costly in terms of energy.

no, in the cinema the situation is greatly exaggerated. This is not the first and not the last test until all countries with space programs agree to ban such tests.

@@konjinni it’s actually enough now. Now that the Russians have caught up with the US and China, maybe they will agree to a security council resolution banning further tests.

@@TheBooban Kinda true. Once the major players are in the game, they'll start banning others so that only they are able to play.

@@TheBooban Finally someone said that. US was not agreeing to sign a treaty against space militarization because they had an upper hand. Now the field is leveled.

We will go in small peaces.

Aurélien Carnoy I love ❤️ the peaces✌️

We're heading towards hundreds or thousands of years of self-quarantine, it seems.

“It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.” ― from Childhood's End. We wont.

@@neithere I can nearly feel the window Musk talked about closing.

This shit, none of this was happening until weak kneed FJB got in office, just sayin.

You cannot imagine how smart they are to pratice shooting satellite before war, can you?

Strong man leader admitting a mistake?? Dream on. Putin is in cold war mindset

and collect their shit

@@benalkan8559 If not hot war.

No; Russia admitting any sort of fault or wrongdoing would in fact be the #1 most impressive/implausible thing that could happen, by a very very wide margin.

Russia's Ministry of defence today actually stated officially that there was a succesfull test and hit on the target, and that the debris is monitored and its not going to make any harm to anyone not involved. And as the time shows, everything's ok except western mass media crying loud again (which is not a surprise actually - every russian weapon success always makes some butts hurt). Also, kind of fun reading comments about Putin's "cold war mind" knowing that Russia is literally surrounded by NATO which is actually US led organisation from another side of the planet. Are you fkn serious? Im not a fan of Putin, especially in inner politics, but he is just keeping Russia's DEFENCE from NATO and US capabilities on a level and nothing more. Look on the globe map and try to use some simple logic in understandig who threatens who in todays world. (oh, there go democracy spreaders :-/ all not cold war headed at all. and their fans. will not answer or read. have a good chat and your own head on your shoulders to think)

India based

for now.

I can't comment domestically but for any international affairs india play 90% of the time very responsible.

The larger nations like Russia and China just have enough power and leverage accreted to be able to swing their military dicks around all they want however blatantly they want, and not face any real consequences for it, I suppose. At least relative to nations “lower” on the power scale (no insult to India intended). 😕

@@jgottula they actually are yeah surprisingly responsible in the world stage.... They're like the quiet smart kid, of course they still make bad decisions, but comparitavely, they're doin pretty well. Gudos for them

Ahh. Yes, It's going to stop soon. Just like using fossil fuels. Very soon. I'm convinced.

One could argue that these are much lower stakes tbh

@@redstar956 yes, at least it doesn't pose an immediate threat to wildlife. But really: _DON'T LITTER_ - not in the oceans, not in lakes, definitely not in rivers, not in nature anywhere on land, and not in inhabited areas or cities for that matter. And also not in _space_ !!!

Yea, Russians just gonna watch and doing nothing when USA is instaling net of 10.000 starlink statelites that will allow USA to use its military drones all over the world with no need to risk live of any soldiers or even move them anywhere... clearly someone in Russian military is not ready to swallow that bs that USA is wasting billions of money on starlink to give people in 3rd world countries access to facebook and twitter... heh

@@redstar956 good point

Really really really stupid. Now they will hear about this for years to come. And, God forbids, anything hits ISS, they will be blamed for centuries.

I would say he was objective. Heck, the US created the exact same problem which made a bunch of debris clouds endangering the space stations Salyut 7 and MIR. Can't really act like it was complete madness when it becomes hypocritical.

He shouldn’t be restrained, this is completely outrageous

@@VG_164 He even pointed it out that others have done the same, India being the least bad, the Chinese strike being the worst. Why would it be hypocritical? He himself did not have anything to do with any of the tests. It's complete madness no matter which nation is behind it. It's basically hindering the space related scientific progress of the whole human race so some childish political leader gets to feel good about themselves.

@@Manijakh I know, it’s bad for everybody, no one should be doing it, that’s what he’s saying. It’s not a hypocritical message at all. Seriously the worlds largest militaries are wasting everybody’s resources and damaging progress for the whole world.

If it was a livestream he probably would but this is a bit more scripted.

A dick move was expanding NATO to Russia's border despite an agreement not to. Keep poking the Bear in the face. When it rips our faces off, don't complain.

@@akk9196 those countries wanted to join NATO precisely because they have Russia as a next door neighbor. Can't say that I blame them, either.

@@1slotmech when u make a deal u should stick to the agreement. But, hey forgot we r talking about the US here!!! And as far as all this BS fake anger about this test space doesn’t belong to the US. You.all just need to calm down. The Russians r not children, show some respect..

@@MegaEdward39 the Russians evidently are children

what hole?

@@avhuf A'Hole

The Russians proposed in 2019 at the UN to agree on new rules limiting the use of weapons in outer space. The US replied that it was not interested in this, and as a result, the Russians began to defend themselves.

@@gmouse14 We aren't attacking them so they aren't defending themselves they are testing weaponry to attack others with. Just call it what it is. Just because we didn't agree with them doesn't mean they can blow up shit in space until we do. Also the USA and Russia will never go to war if we do satellites are the least of everyone's worries. This is to mess with people other than the USA. If you need to shoot down a satellite do it in a low decaying orbit like India did. This was just to save money from shooting up a target satellite. This cannot continue to happen or we will end up stranded on this planet. If it causes a lot of our satellites to fail or destroys modules on the international space station there will be extreme sanctions put on them we are the largest purchaser of a lot of their metals it will hurt those businesses drastically if their biggest buyer cancels everything overnight we can pay a little more elsewhere to put the pressure on their economy.

@@n111254789 this is a missile defense system, it is only for protection. in the USA, all SM3 missiles are also able to shoot down satellites and have already been deployed around the world. or are you denying Russia the right to defend itself?

@@gmouse14 Buddy it's an anti satellite weapon. It shoots down satellites it isn't an anti missile defense system. Everyone has a right to protect themselves but when you are strapped with enough nukes to erase humanity who really is going to try to attack you? They aren't attacking us and we aren't attacking them. It's about projecting power on smaller nations because the USA and Russia are never going to war and no one is going to try to invade Russia just like they won't try to invade the USA for the same reason nukes. They could have 100% fired a target satellite into a lower orbit and shot it down so the pieces would be low enough atmospheric drag would return them to earth in a year or so. They didn't though, they wanted to save money and avoid the cost of a satellite launch just to test their missile system so they shot something in a very high orbit and created a problem for everyone who has a satellite in space. You understand the USA and Russia government aren't the only two people who operate in space right? We have a giant commercial sector that is growing up there and throwing debris around kinda limits what everyone can do. This was reckless and dumb and I guarantee Roscosmos agrees, it was their dumbshit military. Our military does stupid things too constantly but we haven't totally trashed low earth orbit yet. If this becomes a thing we won't be getting off this planet. It's called Kessler syndrome I believe?

@@gmouse14 Defend themselfes by doing what? Creating a hazardous debris cloud that not just engangers others but also what is partly their own space station?

The Russians shooting down a satellite is literally a plot point in that movie and I don't like it...

I'm sure they would love to blind us prior to any sort of "boots on the ground" conflict. Do you think they're trying to send us a message?

So attention seeking - like the narcissistic behaviour this encapsulates.

They were testing what would happen if they blew up something in front of the orbit of the ISS.

@@snickle1980 Yes they are. Let's Go Brandon is the message.

If Putin can't rule the world, then Putin is going to ruin the world. Attacks on democracy, assasinations of dissidents,, arrests of political opponents,, manufactured crises, disinformation wars, cyber extortion, covid denial, vaccine disinformation. According to The Economist there are twice as many political prisoners in Russia Today (pun intended) as there were in the Soviet era.

He's so angry now he learned Ultra Instinct.

I guess someone counted on them being able to blame NATO for it or whatever.

Putin - This is taking too long. Destroy that ship! B-1 But sir we still have several COSMONAUTS on board! Putin - I don’t care B-1 Roger Roger

THIS *bang* IS HOW WE FIX THINGS *bang, bang* ON RUSSIAN SPACE STATION!

It's showing they can takeout military satellites of NATO making nearly all smart weapons ineffective because people are really thinking about invading Russia and Belarus.

@@TeddyKrimsony Almost no weapons rely on satellites for this very reason

They waited for China to launch Tiangong to make this 90% similar to Gravity lol

I was thinking the same lol