Comments by "Bob thebomb" (@bobthebomb1596) on "Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes, the story so far..." video.

@ToroidalX The point of the F-35 is to kill rather than being killed. How would Europe have looked if the RAF had not adopted the Hurricane and Spitfire and entered WW2 with Fury and Gladiator biplanes?
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@ToroidalX You can die for even less. Why is the 21st century any different than the previous twenty? People want stuff that belongs to others. If NASA fails then science is set back a few years, if the US military fails so does the whole of western democracy.
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@ToroidalX I do not "fail to understand" the US defence budget. The US spends so much because it has been the only superpower and operates worldwide. In Europe it has effectively subsidised NATO; most of whose nations were unwilling to pay their agreed share. It maintains the capability to fight in two or more theatres of operation simultaneously, all while defending CONUS. The US has no direct land border with any of the theatres to which it provides security and must therefore maintain the capability to reinforce those theatres by air and sea. The US military is already failing because it continues to try to do too much. Why do you think material availability is so low? The USAF bomber force has worn out aircraft, the USN can not afford to replace it's Ticonderoga class cruisers. The land based nuclear arsenal is ancient. There are many other examples where it has either lost its edge or fallen behind.
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@ToroidalX You want an arsenal of nuclear weapons that are seen as a credible threat, the US Minuteman III system is fifty years old and ABM systems are improving all the time. Both Russia and China are close to fielding far more advanced systems using hypersonic glide bodies to evade such missile defence systems. In fact this technology is probably the most dangerous yet devised given that it has a huge potential for misunderstandings leading to all out war. China already has the largest army in the world and the largest surface fleet. It is building a nuclear arsenal, ships and submarines at an unprecedented rate. It is openly threatening Taiwan and any country that tries to defend it; including first use of nuclear weapons.
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@ToroidalX The only point you have made so far that is correct is that they are inefficient.
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@ToroidalX How do you think China managed to "Do all that" with 1/3 of the budget? Same with the USSR, let the people live in hovels.
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