Interplanetary Warfare
Isaac Arthur・2 minutes read
Future technology will bring prosperity and more money for giant space guns, focusing on four key areas of futuristic warfare: close combat, combat in atmospheres or orbit, and interplanetary or interstellar conflicts. Interplanetary conflicts involve communication and fire exchange taking weeks or months, with the need for abundant and cheap space travel, energy resources, and advanced weaponry like fusion drives or antimatter to defend against attacks.
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- Interplanetary warfare involves long periods of waiting with brief moments of excitement, requiring abundant and cheap space travel for conflicts to occur effectively.
- The dynamics of future interplanetary conflicts will involve a complex web of alliances and rivalries among various colonies and nations, potentially leading to a more civilized form of warfare in a post-scarcity civilization.
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Close combat, atmospheric combat, interstellar conflicts.
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Summary
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Future technology and interplanetary warfare dynamics.
- Future technology will bring prosperity and more money for giant space guns.
- Four areas of interest in futuristic warfare: close combat, combat in atmospheres or orbit, and interplanetary or interstellar conflicts.
- Interplanetary warfare involves light lag, leading to expanded conflict timelines similar to pre-modern naval warfare.
- Communication and fire exchange in interplanetary warfare can take weeks or months, not seconds or minutes.
- Interplanetary warfare involves long periods of waiting with brief moments of excitement.
- Space travel must be abundant and cheap for interplanetary conflict to occur.
- Energy abundance leads to cheap space travel and valuable resources in space.
- Interplanetary conflicts start with a period resembling a thousand city-states around colonizable rocky planets.
- Interplanetary missiles require high-powered fusion drives or antimatter to be effective.
- Mars can defend against interplanetary attacks with defensive satellites, atomic bombs, and countermeasures along the attack path.
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"Future Rocket Systems and Space Warfare"
- Various options for improving rocket systems are considered, such as compact high-efficiency fusion or anti-matter fuel.
- Challenges with fusion as a rocket fuel are highlighted, including slow acceleration rates.
- Antimatter is presented as the ultimate rocket fuel but poses difficulties in manufacture and storage due to its dangerous nature.
- Particle beams and lasers are discussed as potential weapons but face limitations in long-range effectiveness.
- The concept of using big dumb bullets for interplanetary warfare is introduced, emphasizing the need for high energy costs.
- The potential for using bubble bullets as a defense mechanism in space warfare is explained, highlighting their efficiency in clearing space debris.
- The idea of colonies in asteroids and the Asteroid Belt is explored, suggesting the possibility of hidden mass driver missile launchers.
- The use of nuclear explosions to power mass drivers or lasers for space warfare is considered as a viable option.
- The dynamics of interplanetary conflicts involving various colonies and nations are discussed, envisioning a complex web of alliances and rivalries.
- The likelihood of armed conflicts in the future is debated, with a focus on the potential for more civilized warfare in a post-scarcity civilization.
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