Toby Howell
speaker
33,615 appearances
347 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 2d ago
Toby Howell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Was it a bird?
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A plane?
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Nope.
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It was an orbital weapon deployed by Space Force.
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This week, Air Force Secretary Troy Mank confirmed that the shooting star you saw might have actually been a space control weapon.
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The first time the Pentagon has openly admitted that such weapons are orbiting us right now.
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Space control weapons is an intentionally broad term and can include anything.
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From a simple radio frequency jammer to laser dazzlers that mess with optical sensors.
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It also includes so-called kinetic weapons, which have the ability to physically destroy satellites.
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If that all sounds scary, hand-wavy, and futuristic, that's sort of the point.
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Secretary Menck said that the disclosure is meant to act as a deterrence to other nations without fully disclosing the weapons' capabilities.
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Talking publicly about
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Space weapons is part of a chess game going on hundreds of miles above your head, with Russia and China already sitting at the orbital table.
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The US has been keeping an eye on Russian testing of anti-satellite weapons as far back as 2020, while a 2025 space threat assessment deemed China has the ability to form, quote, a formidable counter-space arsenal.
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Neil, it appears that the US is saying we also have things in space that go pure.
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Pew pew.
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And this also provides us with a potential peek into a future where what's going on in space influences warfare down here on Earth.
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I'm trying to figure out how a lightsaber weapon would work. 'Cause that is a personal sword that you wield and yet you it's a
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A lightsaber in space.
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Is it just spinning around slowly and just already?
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