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Mars or Wars?

https://i.imgur.com/UXTxD2t.jpg
4•infinitewars•1h ago

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bigyabai•1h ago
Just post the prompt you used instead of whatever this is.
infinitewars•1h ago
A genuine Mars program requires a dozen thing SpaceX only builds CGI renders of or totally overlooked. Instead, they focused on reusable launch and building a low-Earth-orbit mega-constellation. This dates back to the 1980s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Michael D. Griffin architected Brilliant Pebbles, a concept for thousands of LEO missile interceptors that died because launch costs were too high. The Pentagon attempted to solve the launch-cost problem in the 1990s with the DC-X reusable rocket program, but it was canceled.

The architectural dream survived through "New Space" advocacy. In 2001, this very same Griffin shared a Mars Society stage with Elon Musk, then flew with him to Russia in 2002 to buy ICBMs. SpaceX was conceived on the flight home. Musk later told the former DC-X program manager, Jess Sponable, that SpaceX was "just continuing the great work of the DC-X project."

While Musk built rockets, Griffin ran In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture arm. Then as NASA Administrator, Griffin used his In-Q-Tel playbook to award the commercial cargo contracts that saved SpaceX from bankruptcy.

SpaceX masking began to slip when Gwynne Shotwell publicly confirmed the company's willingness to launch offensive weapons in 2018. That same year, Griffin returned to the Pentagon to establish the Space Development Agency, mandated to build a proliferated LEO constellation for hypersonic missile tracking. In 2019, U.S. General Terrence O'Shaughnessy pitched the Senate on "SHIELD"-a layered orbital missile defense system. Shortly after, O'Shaughnessy retired from the military and joined SpaceX to lead their discreet new division: Starshield.

Three decades later, Brilliant Pebbles is finally materializing as Golden Dome. As Reuters reported, Musk's Starshield is the frontrunner to build this classified SDI successor, pitching the Pentagon on a Golden Dome architecture involving thousands of weapon satellites. Starshield is already deploying these military satellites alongside standard Starlink satellites.

Mars was the necessary myth to recruit talent, capture public imagination, and secure capital. But the capabilities SpaceX actually delivered...cheap mass-to-orbit and rapid satellite replenishment...are the exact prerequisites of Golden Dome.

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