The world "is approaching a point where 'Star Wars' will not be just a film," and the US is not ready

The world is approaching "a point where 'Star Wars' will not be just a film," and the Pentagon admits it is not ready for a space war, as revealed by several experts and US politicians consulted by Politico. 
The article notes that Russia and China are "far ahead" of the United States. in the development of means capable of destroying or rendering inoperative the satellites on which the US Army depends. "for everything": from gathering intelligence, to guiding precision bombs, missiles and drones. 
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is trying to catch up after years of underinvestment, injecting "billions of dollars" to bolster its defenses against antisatellite weapons, train troops and refine means to retaliate in a new form of combat. . 
"We are increasingly dependent on space, and our adversaries know it" "Now we are approaching a point where 'Star Wars' will not be just a film," warns Steve Isakowitz, director of The Aerospace Corp., a government-funded think tank that serves as the Army's chief adviser. in the space. In these circumstances, the USA he can no longer afford to take his domain for granted, the expert warns.

And, according to Isakowitz, "that supremacy in space" has allowed Washington "to have the greatest combat capability of war in the world." However, it has also made "every day more and more, literally", Washington "becomes dependent" on space, and "our adversaries know it". 
Not surprisingly, US President Donald Trump recently called for the creation of a "space force": a separate military branch responsible for guaranteeing US supremacy in space (a role now played mainly by the Air Force). Likewise, Trump's new National Security Strategy designated space as "vital interest" for the first time, and ordered the Armed Forces to consider space as "a priority domain," Politico recalls. 
"We can not allow adversaries to take our eyes and ears" Some, however, think that it is not enough. Congressman Mike Rogers, who chairs the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, predicts that war in space will "happen," and that "it's just a matter of whether it happens in the next two years or in the next five or six years. " 
In this sense, the politician is worried about whether the US Air Force is paying enough attention to space. "They always say: 'We have this, we are planning this in the future,'" says Rogers. "But when you ask them to prioritize space this year, they say they can not," he laments.

"People have to remember that when it comes to fighting in a war, our eyes and ears are in space, we can not allow adversaries to take our eyes and ears," says the congressman. 
Other specialists urge the Trump Administration to think more carefully about its military space policy. Thus, Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor of national security at Naval War College, doubts that space can be treated like any other battle zone. "You can not control all the space all the time," he says, explaining that "simply the physics of space is different than the others." 
"An armed conflict in space would be catastrophic for all" On the other hand, Cassandra Steer, acting executive director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law of the University of Pennsylvania, warns that "an armed conflict in space would be catastrophic for all players," including "neutral states. , commercial actors and international civil society. " 
In this sense, he considers that the biggest challenge would be to develop a space defense that does not become an offensive. 
"How do we protect our space assets without creating the exact conditions for an arms race that leads to war in space?" The analyst asks and warns: "Try to dominate space in the way that the United States dominates other sites It could be a very bad idea. "

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I will support an agenda to get humans into Low Earth Orbit, and send missions beyond to the Main Asteroid belt to mine the vast wealth, which will be critical to our economy.  We need desperately need the rare earth and platinum group metals, along with renewables such as fresh drinking water.

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On peut voir aujourd'hui de nombreux projets de colonisation spatiale se développer à travers le monde avec comme principaux buts la Lune et Mars, et pour de multiples raisons que vous seriez aussi à même que moi d'expliquer, j'estime que c'est une bonne chose.

Mais lorsque j'entends des dirigeants de grandes puissances parler de créer des bases en dehors de la Terre et soumises à l'autorité de leur propre pays (bases américaines et russes, notamment), je ne peux m'empêcher de penser à l'Histoire du continent américain qui, un temps partagé entre espagnols, portugais, français et anglais, a évolué non sans violences vers la création d'une multitude d'Etats indépendants issus du mécontentement des colons.

De même, l'indépendance des prochaines colonies extraterrestres est de mon point de vue une simple question de temps, aussi serait-il judicieux de la prévoir dès maintenant afin qu'elle advienne sans les effusions de sang que provoque bien souvent toute rébellion.

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Ne répétons pas les erreurs du passé, et militons pour donner l'indépendance politique aux nations que nous sommes sur le point d'engendrer, pour le bien de tous. Telle pourrait être la plus grande mission d'Asgardia.

If we are planning to go mining in space then the obvious plan would go to the broken up planets. That is the only way to get the internal dense iron materials from inside a planet. The nearest by is the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Because this is a far voyage we should plan to do this in steps. The first step would be to build bases on the Moon, do some mining as test and make spaceships on the moon to blast of to Mars. Then build bases on Mars and do the same thing their on an expanded level to start mining in the asteroid belt wich is near Mars.

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European astronomers managed to capture and film with SDO solar observatory cameras several giant plasma tornadoes that moved along the surface of our Sun. 
A new analysis of these gigantic structures - each of which is several times the size of the Earth - indicates that they could have been wrongly called 'tornadoes' because until now scientists have only been able to observe them in two-dimensional images.

The solar tornadoes were first seen in the early twentieth century, and the term was popularized a few years ago when scientists began to analyze the recordings obtained by the Solar Dynamics Observatory of NASA (SDO). The images show the hot plasma in extreme ultraviolet light apparently turning on its axis to form a giant structure that takes the shape of a tornado - as this phenomenon is seen on Earth. 
Now, after using the Doppler effect to add a third dimension to their data, scientists have been able to measure the speed of the moving plasma, as well as its direction, temperature and density. Thanks to the data obtained during several years of observations, they were able to construct a more complete picture of the structure of the magnetic field that supports the plasma.

"We discovered that in spite of how the prominences and tornadoes appear in the images, the magnetic field is not vertical and the plasma moves mainly horizontally along the lines of the magnetic field", explains Nicolas Labrosse, the main author of the study. Scientists believe that these vortices are the result of ejections of the coronal mass, that is, explosive emissions of solar plasma that exceed in destructive power the capacity of all the world's nuclear arsenals added together.

The American company Orion Span has announced that in 2021 it plans to put into orbit a space station called Aurora Station, called to become "the first luxury space hotel," according to the company's website. 
The company's chief executive, Frank Bunger, revealed on Thursday at the Space 2.0 conference, held in San Jose, California (USA), that the space station will consist of a module of 42 square meters capable of holding up to six people (four tourists and two crew). 
Bunger revealed that the 12-day trip aboard the Aurora Station would cost 9.5 million dollars, a price lower than that of flights to the International Space Station (ISS). As Space recalls, the seven 'tourists' who have gone through the ISS each paid between 20 and 40 million dollars. 
The 'all-inclusive' price will cover three months of the pre-flight training program, as well as round-trip transportation to the station.

12 days and hundreds of sunrises and sunsets Passengers will have the opportunity to grow vegetables and even access a "fast" Wi-Fi. The station will describe an orbit around the Earth every 90 minutes, allowing guests to contemplate sunrises and sunsets "hundreds" of times during the entire stay. The station, whose orbit will be located at 320 kilometers of height, could grow over time by sending additional modules that would be attached to the main module. Those who wish to live this odyssey can now make their reservation on the company's website, for which they will have to make a deposit of $ 80,000.