Unchained Preppers

General Category => Security & Survival => Topic started by: JoJo on March 12, 2019, 07:15:19 PM

Title: How did we miss this?
Post by: JoJo on March 12, 2019, 07:15:19 PM

 Patriotman brought this up in another post and it started me thinking.

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Yup. There is a reason we are scared of China and Russia's anti-satellite capabilities and why they are teaching celestial navigation in the Navy again.

 What would happen if our satellites were taken out and except for land lines and ham radio there wouldn't be any communication? How would we know what happened? We would still have power our cars will still be running no one would think of an EMP because there wasn't one. The local radio stations most likely would still be working but they wouldn't know what happened either.

 Just some food for thought.

Title: Re: How did we miss this?
Post by: patriotman on March 12, 2019, 09:47:01 PM

We are exceptionally vunerable to space attacks. There is a reason for Trump's Space Force. No satellites means our comms and navigation are down and our spy abilities are degraded. I believe either Obama or Trump said that they would treat a First Strike in space on par with a Nuclear First Strike.

Title: Re: How did we miss this?
Post by: JohnyMac on March 13, 2019, 03:40:25 PM

JoJo, that is why at least half a dozen folks here at UP are hams.

Title: Re: How did we miss this?
Post by: Nemo on March 13, 2019, 04:39:37 PM

So big hams I hear one is named Oscar too!

Nemo

Title: Re: How did we miss this?
Post by: DMCakhunter on March 13, 2019, 05:52:21 PM

When the attacks against satelites start, eventually everyone will lose their satelites, depending on what altitude they are at. Similar to the movie Gravity.

Title: Re: How did we miss this?
Post by: JohnyMac on March 14, 2019, 09:43:06 PM

Good Lord I haven't celestial navigation since the early '90's. I sold my sextant with our sailboat around 2012. OMG! :hiding: