Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Why America Needs a Space Force" video.

  1. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I am sorry but the idea of a Space Force for any country is a lot of political BS. Its the sort of nonsense and garbage that politicians use to convince the general public that they are actually doing something. I'm Australian but did my degree in America in the late 80s when Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program was in full swing. Almost EVERY post graduate student in the department was DARPA funded. The amount of money being spent was astronomical. In my final year I did an optional class in Space Craft Dynamics. Like all undergraduates we had to do at least 2 advanced classes. We shared those classes with the postgrads. The difference was they did term papers and I don't mean like a history or psych paper. These were full journal or conference standard technical papers and they had to do presentation as well. Most undergraduates picked Orbital Mechanics because it was only ridiculously hard level math. Each year a few undergrads (just to be different would try) Space Craft Dynamics which each year turned out to be a bad choice because it was insane level math. I remember 4 things about that class. - The professor because he had a quaker beard; and - How insanely hard it was just to follow the concepts he lectured us about; and - The DARPA funded postgrad doing rail guns; and - The DARPA funded guy doing space based laser battery targeting dynamics. I think its fair to say I am reasonably smart because you need that just to get through that degree AND that guy doing the targeting system made my feel dumb. In fact he made most of the postgrads feel dumb too. he was easily the smartest engineer I ever met. His work should have won awards except the maths guys could barely understand what he was doing. IT WOULD TAKE ME PAGES TO EXPLAIN IT and all I would do is confuse people. In the end we all realised 1 thing. NONE OF IT WAS GOING TO WORK. Rail guns needed to much power to operate in space and if you made your missile shiny then lasers weren't any good either. These days when I see some of the nonsense people are talking I just shake my head in disbelief. Its not a matter of computer chips or AI (which is another big lie) its simply a matter of basic physics and that doesn't change. Sorry but its all BS And Yes Australia has announced its own Space Force and plans of WASTING AU$7 Billion trying to repeat what we learned 35 years ago. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂
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