Episode 53 - War in Heaven

Recorded: 10 June 2016
Released: 11 june 2016
Duration: 98 minutes, 44 seconds

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Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Adam Smith, Marsha Barnhart, and Nick Nielsen to talk about
the future of human conflict.

• Intro
• Cyber warfare
• Snowden and the NSA information
• Snowden hero or traitor?
• Drawing the line where cyberwar starts
• Defining warfare
• The cold war and limited war
• War in low Earth orbit and cyber warfare
• Easy and cheap to bring down big expensive satellites
• Anti satellite weapons
• Kessler syndrome
• Weather satellites and the military value of weather data
• Warfighting platforms in space
• GPS and their military value
• Boots on the Ground in space.
• Supersoldiers?
• DARPA does proof of concept.
• Asymmetric warfare
• Camouflage and concealment
• Suicide bombers as smart bombs
• The enemy gets a vote
• Counterinsurgency warfare
• Suicide bombers in space?
• Humans really a warlike species? Are we done with big wars?
• What purpose would war in space serve?
• Proxy wars and shadow wars
• Plausible to send large military forces into space?
• Private companies quietly supporting government spying?
• An analogy to Chinese new islands?
• Transhumanism a moral horror? Would it make wealth inequality worse?
• The first CRISPR baby soon? The first cloned baby?
• The great firewall of China
• Weapons in space  and the Soviet pistols
• Space the next flashpoint?
• recommendations
• recruiting,nagging, begging
• brief pitch for the Wow! Signal
• Final round of goodbyes
• outro

Links

TheCosmonaut's TP-82 pistol

Avoiding War in Space
NOAA Weather Satellites
The Weather Forecast that Saved D-Day
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Chiquita admits to paying terrorists
NSA Infiltrated RSA Security
AT&T Helped NSA Spy on Internet
The TP-82 Pistol
Chinese Test Anti-Satellite Weapon
The Outer Space Treaty and Lucite Balls

Recommendations:

Marsha: DARPA
Nick: Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety
Adam: Star Wars Audiobooks: Darth Bane Trilogy
Paul: Raging Bitch

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky