He’s copying ideas from bad 1980’s military sci-fi (which don’t work. Which is mildly annoying if you’re claiming to be hard scifi and hugely annoying if you’re putting it on arXiv).
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Now I am reminded how Avi Loeb worked on an SDI-funded project in the 1980s.
aug 10, 2025, 9:16 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 10, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Loeb's biography includes the line "international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988)". I did not immediately find any documentation about exactly what he was doing for that. (Tagging @nuclearanthro.bsky.social for interest.)
aug 10, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Now I’m thinking of the ABM tactic of setting off buried nuclear warheads near/in missile fields along approach paths to trash incoming warheads with debris. The fallout, timing, control, & attack nature & ISR were all issues. I mean, fuck if you if accidentally/on error set that off!
aug 11, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
There just seems to be a lot of overlap between the "everything is hostile aliens" contingent and Cold War weapons-of-mass-destruction types.
aug 11, 2025, 2:03 am • 6 1 • view
it’s a mindset!
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