Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Project 2025 and the US Military" video.

AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Ryan a few weeks ago you blasted off at Sagaar over on Breaking Points for talking about subjects he doesn't know about. THIS TIME ITS YOU who's talking about things he doesn't know about. I did my degree in the late 80s when Ronald Reagans Star Wars program was in full flight. Almost all of the post graduate students were sponsored by DARPA. During my final year when we had to do our high level options we shared class time with the post grads. To get a higher post grad level credit they had to do technical papers and present them. So we got to listen to what they were doing and several of them were doing very interesting things. The class I that in some ways I wished I had never done because it was so hard is also at times like this the answer to stupid claims made these days. That class was Space Craft Dynamics, which is an extension of orbital mechanics and is about how things fly in space. I CAN ASSURE YOU ITS NOTHING LIKE Star Wars, Stra Trek or any other science fiction book, TV show or film. Its easily the single hardest class in all of engineering because of the math involved and yes I have argued it with other engineers. In that class were 2 guys I remember because what they were doing was so far out there it was hard to follow. One guy was doing the dynamics of rail guns and the other pointing of space craft. The dynamics of rail guns had to do with how the rails flex and vibrate due to the electrical forces. It sort of like the issues with projectiles being fired out of guns and the barrels flex. They might be small deflections but they can have big consequences. The guy who was doing the pointing was easily the smartest engineer I ever met in terms of doing complex applied math. What you get from being around someone like him and seeing what the work was like is to understand just how hard it is to accurately target anything in space. Looking at stars with telescopes is easy by comparison because their positions are known before hand. After that everything else just gets harder and harder to the point of being utterly impractical. The main 3 issues are that everything moves in curved paths, everything moves incredibly fast and the distances involved requires accuracy that's incredibly hard to do. That was what we really got out of Reagan's Star Wars program. Just how utterly impractical its goals were. The fact Trump came out and shifted an existing part of the Air Force into a new independent "Space Force" was politics and nothing more. The fantasy stuff about having troops stationed in space has been utterly debunked. The claims by clowns like Elon Musk for using giant rockets to deploy troops has been debunked. People making wild claims about space based lasers starting grass fires has been debunked. Politics like Hollywood can make what ever claims they like. Engineering is not like that. We either make stuff that works or stuff that fails or something in between. Either way we have to deal with reality NOT fantasy. So long as its difficult to physically get into space and physically demanding to stay in space and support crews in space then space will be about communications and surveillance and nothing else. If you'd like I'd happily come on and explain these things in more detail.
1
@DHD52 Do you actually know what killed off Reagans Star Wars program??? SIMPLE PRACTICALLITIES And I genuinely want to scream that in your face and in the face of so many other people these days who push all these fantasy BULLSHlT cases. I seriously doubt you work in space unless its maybe one of these BULLSHlT start-ups claiming some crap and nonsense hoping to get a DARPA contract. I seriously doubt you have a degree in aerospace or ever done any sort of real course in either orbital mechanics or space craft dynamics. The fact you call it space dynamics is a give away. HERE'S THE PRACTICALITIES WE WORKED IN IN THE LATE 80s 1) Lasers reflect of shiny surfaces. 2) Lasers loose power over distances. Its Ok for communications but NOT energy delivery. 3) All electrical space electrical hardware like computer chips and sensors are hardened against radiation and as such are near impregnable to microwaves. 4) NOTHING can hide in space. We all know where everything is and have done so since the early 80s. To actually catch up to something requires lots of careful orbital adjustments that take time. So NOBODY has been sneaking up on anybody. 5) Collision/Explosive based systems cause debris fields. Every test anyone has ever done has been disaster. 6) Collision based systems like what were called "brilliant pebbles" require targets to stay on a predictable course. Almost any deviation causes a miss because there's no time to react at orbital speeds. Sorry but I can spot BULLSHlT on this subject and your full of it.
1
@AstroGremlinAmerican What a great question and it needs to be considered.
1