Mar 28, 17 / Tau 03, 01 16:44 UTC
Re: No need for military. ¶
The obvious solution is to develop beyond the ability to overwhelm. You've still not done ballistics simulations for kinetic transfer of a meter of MgAl3 foam - clearly with your citations of "unsafe". And as this is just a thin skin to deal with MMOD and should shrug off ICBM's - the damages caused to the foam easily replacable by building in modular blocks - even if 1000 was launched at once and one got through it'd still not really matter. That foam can be patched before it's done a rotation. 10,000 launched and 100 get through - some parts of the foam will of yeilded, but the five meter thick NiFe radiation shield should more than protect the outer pressure hull if it gets through the 7½CM of titanium skinning it. But there again, that has to be unsafe because I thought of it and the entire premise of destruction from ballistic weaponry does sound like the perfect justification for dedicated full time soldier force, everyone knows how good infantry is against rocketry, we should be all over this plan - you're right. I'm clearly talking out of my rear end, because I can't be bothered to actually confirm anything I talk about.
The absorbtion is readily assured - you've really not studied physics much at all, I would suggest steering away from this subject in the future. The same with reflection. Micromirror arrays can provide for targetted reflection. It's assured, on a physics level. Ballistics are commonly too slow, and covering too great a distance to not be interceptable without epic incompetence and repeatedly.
Accidents do happen, which is why you plan for this in the system itself. Redundancies fill the gap. In the unlikely even of redundancy failures then the failovers kick in. Concepts like sabotage are thoroughly amusing. As previously explained - multiple times, and another example of intentional beligerence and intentional fear mongery on your part - in order to simply sustain environmental conditions over an area to sensibly consider mass habitation to a scale of the current population will require a sensor network with hundreds of millions of sensors. No human is sensibly interfacing this, AI is watching and responding keeping everything cosy and within operational perameters. To do this sanely, the metadata generated by the equipments and sensors themselves are also watched. You're not getting close enough to anything to sabotage, and as you make the attempt your interception will be plotted - the worst case senario being that part of the system relies on it's redundancy for twenty mins until the replacement hardware arrives for install. And anything required will have lots of replacements, likey the capacity to create on demand.