The Pentagon is Recruiting Elon Musk to Help Them Win a Nuclear War
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  • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Although the Heritage Foundation advises using tungsten slugs (i.e., bullets) as interceptors, hypersonic missiles have been opted for instead. To this end, a new organization, the Castelion Company, was established in 2023.

    Castelion is a SpaceX cutout; six of the seven members of its leadership team and two of its four senior advisors are ex-senior SpaceX employees.

    Of course this is about Musk lining his own pockets. I guess that’s what the US government is for now, enriching billionaires at the expense of all other citizen.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
      8·
      12 days ago

      Yeah. The US government has always been about 80% for the purpose of enriching billionaires at the expense of yada yada yada. Now we’re explicitly shutting down the other 20%, which up until now was doing a really remarkable amount of mostly invisible good works in the world. 😢

  • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    12 days ago

    Seems pretty bad that confirmed Nazi Musk is in control of the Pentagon.

    • melp@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

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  • melp@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    Well… it’s run by an dipshit who spent the first half od his life going to fantasy football parties so ofc they are.

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
    1·
    11 days ago

    The world is governed by the United States of Earth, established after a devastating war in the 1970s between the Western Powers and the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states as well as Communist China and its satellites). The West won the conflict with the aid of Lunetta, an orbiting space station that dropped nuclear missiles on the Soviet Union.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale#Synopsis

    Not to give ideas, just citing the likely source of those ideas and what the people involved may think would be a “good idea”.

    Opting for hypersonic missiles (that could carry warheads) instead of simply interceptors, would fit right into that scenario.