<story><title>Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test</title><url>https://breakingdefense.com/2019/04/indian-asat-debris-threatens-all-leo-sats/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msravi</author><text>&amp;gt; We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.&lt;p&gt;Sure. Just that the &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; cannot be one of the nations that did this before, as is the case here. That&amp;#x27;s hypocrisy and entitlement.</text></item><item><author>tomrod</author><text>This smacks of a justification through tu quoque fallacy. Just because other nations destroyed satellites doesn&amp;#x27;t mean this type of weapons testing should continue. We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.&lt;p&gt;Polluting LEO to the point where we endanger our ability to get off the earth is extremely myopic.</text></item><item><author>r3bl</author><text>Worth noting: India is the fourth(!) country that destroyed a satellite in orbit.&lt;p&gt;While I would love nothing more but for it be the last country to do so, the precedent was set some time ago. The one that China destroyed in 2007 (or 2008?) was by far the biggest, creating thousands of pieces of debris bigger than a golf ball. 270 pieces (detected so far after India destroyed a satellite) seems pretty insignificant in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justin66</author><text>Plenty of people &lt;i&gt;within&lt;/i&gt; the US objected to ASAT testing when the US planned it and then did it. We&amp;#x27;re not all blind followers defined by our citizenship, in the US or in India.</text></comment>
<story><title>Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test</title><url>https://breakingdefense.com/2019/04/indian-asat-debris-threatens-all-leo-sats/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msravi</author><text>&amp;gt; We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.&lt;p&gt;Sure. Just that the &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; cannot be one of the nations that did this before, as is the case here. That&amp;#x27;s hypocrisy and entitlement.</text></item><item><author>tomrod</author><text>This smacks of a justification through tu quoque fallacy. Just because other nations destroyed satellites doesn&amp;#x27;t mean this type of weapons testing should continue. We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.&lt;p&gt;Polluting LEO to the point where we endanger our ability to get off the earth is extremely myopic.</text></item><item><author>r3bl</author><text>Worth noting: India is the fourth(!) country that destroyed a satellite in orbit.&lt;p&gt;While I would love nothing more but for it be the last country to do so, the precedent was set some time ago. The one that China destroyed in 2007 (or 2008?) was by far the biggest, creating thousands of pieces of debris bigger than a golf ball. 270 pieces (detected so far after India destroyed a satellite) seems pretty insignificant in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glennpratt</author><text>By that argument &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; can&amp;#x27;t criticize and resist nuclear proliferation. I completely reject that assertion.</text></comment>