Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology
December 16th, 2019Update: Is Starlink Going to Drop The American Culture Bomb on China?
If you’re like me, you’ve been wondering: What is Starlink’s actual purpose?
I didn’t entirely believe the prosaic narrative about better rural broadband Internet and a funding source for Elon Musk’s Mars aspirations, etc. Well, it might be about those things at some level, but the massive scale of the project and the rapid approval by the U.S. Government made me think that there had to be some sort of national security element in play.
Back in October, we learned that SpaceX has been working with the U.S. Air Force on a program called Global Lightning:
Shotwell said many of the Starlink features are being tested by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under a program called Global Lightning. SpaceX in December 2018 received a $28 million contract to test over the next three years different ways in which the military might use Starlink broadband services. So far, SpaceX has demonstrated data throughput of 610 megabits per second in flight to the cockpit of a U.S. military C-12 twin-engine turboprop aircraft.
Maybe we’re getting warm, but there has to be more to it.
Flash forward to a recent talk given by Retired Air Force General Steven Kwast at Hillsdale College called, “The Urgent Need for a U.S. Space Force.”
Kwast made a statement that made me think that Starlink could be used to launch The American Culture Bomb at China:
“We could bring secure, trusted data to every human being on planet Earth, underpinned by American values and the American Constitution.”
Wow!
Listen to the General Kwast talk, read The American Culture Bomb and U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators and tell me that Starlink is just about rural broadband.
Contemporary American culture is the most powerful in history, and the most destructive of competitor cultures. While some other cultures, such as those of East Asia, appear strong enough to survive the onslaught by adaptive behaviors, most are not. The genius, the secret weapon, of American culture is the essence that the elites despise: ours is the first genuine people’s culture. It stresses comfort and convenience–ease–and it generates pleasure for the masses.
Is China strong enough to survive the American Culture Bomb?
I don’t know, but if the Chinese government is worried about the Black Hand now, what happens when, “Secure, trusted data… underpinned by American values and the American Constitution,” is pouring from the sky at gigabit speeds?
Via: The Drive:
Kwast claims China is already building a “Navy in space” complete with the space-based equivalents of “battleships and destroyers” which are “able to maneuver and kill and communicate with dominance, and we [the United States] are not.”
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“The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour.”
