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nutjob2today at 10:58 AM3 repliesview on HN

> You can shoot it down with a missile.

Obviously a bad idea, but frying it with some sort of high powered electromagnetic pulse would seem the smartest option with plausible deniability.

I wonder if the US already has such weapons in orbit.


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stef25today at 1:59 PM

> frying it with some sort of high powered electromagnetic pulse would seem the smartest option with plausible deniability

Realistically, how many people could do this ?

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M95Dtoday at 2:06 PM

I assume that satellites have protection against that - because of solar flares.

raverbashingtoday at 12:27 PM

Kessler event oops, you know. I guess I know someone with several disposable satellites, I wonder if they could be bothered (but I guess not)