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the problem with weaponizing space is that people are gonna want to defend against them. Remember when china blew up a satellite to prove they could? What that did was make a shitton of small, 5.7mm pieces of shrapnel that are also in orbit and won't de-orbit by themselves until they damn well want to. The more weapons in space, the more is gonna get blown up, whos pieces are gonna shred other satellites, which will make a cloud of sharp pointy fast metal bits that will prevent any satellites from being safely launched up, military or otherwise. THAT's why we don't want space weaponized, even though rods from god would be totally badass.