I think it's important to use diplomatic measures first, and violence only when there is no other alternative. Right now, there are over 7 billion people on the planet and over 5 billion of us live in non-conflict zones, and few countries are actually currently at war. Russia has had massive sanctions and is feeling the bite, with more being enacted to this day.

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The title is really clickbate. This is just saying the US is trying to determine how to react if Russia starts taking out Starlink satellites because Ukraine is using them.

Fair, you know other countries are figuring out the same thing. It just makes sense.

This sub as a whole has the extremely naive idea that war can't happen in space and that Earth must become a utopia or we won't go anywhere.

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There are some who believe that China's aggressive expansionism and Russia's revanchism is merely a difference of opinion and that actually all that is needed is a sit down around a table and talk it out.

It's a noble, if naive, sentiment, but not one rooted in reality.

That said, we need to keep conflict out of space as much as possible. It would be all too easy to render our orbital environment hostile to all space endeavours because of flaring tempers - and this would be a burden to bear for centuries.

the people thinking about this "space war" are people that won't fight the war or don't share the trillions on mining asteroids.

Are you for real?

Genius, now we only need to get all the other guys onboard.

Let me check, China, Russia,India, France...

Yeah, no problems there.

by golly you've solved the war question. Someone get this person on the phone with Joe Biden, stat

Genuine question - are you trolling?

Like, how does someone write that post with a straight face while the war in Ukraine is happening

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An admirable sentiment. Would you like to propose this to Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?

How about we stop viewing others as Enemies and use diplomacy to find ways to work together?

Well it's an admirable sentiment but we cannot permit our enemies to control space resources because we want those resources.

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I know it's naive, but here's an idea. Stop doing war. Trillions of dollars now open to space mining

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If you mean identical to a quantum level, then no, it's impossible, and if two quantum-level perfectly identical planets did exist, they'd immediately start to diverge.

How close to identical would you accept?

That's not the point. Identical is identical but what levels in a a rock have to be identical for you to consider it identical enough? Size, density and shape? That's only identical until you zoom to the surface and see the stuctural differences on it. Then theres the inside of the rock. Does molecular stucture need to be fully identical all the way? It's about where do you draw the line that they are identical enough. If we go all the way then I'd argue that we can erase the word identical because nothing is truly identical.

How many digits before pi starts repeating?

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In our solar system Earth and Venus are similar size, but quite different surfaces and atmospheres.