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    30 days ago

    He can’t hit GPS/Galileo/GLONASS satellites (19k km to 23k km). And he can’t hit escape velocity, so that Model S that Elon Musk launched into an eccentric path wandering the solar system is probably safe. But he can hit a lot of stuff.

    Assuming the M2 has some kind of absurdly precise, even more advanced than a CIWS mechanical aiming mount and traverse system , connected to some kind of orbital trajectory calculator computer system, as well as a system that knows its own precise location, and trajectory and velocity, and the exact location and velocity and trajectory of his target… (you know potentially on the other side of the fucking planet, moving at about Mach 28 or 30)…

    suuure.

    Otherwise, no, the M2 will only be hitting things within visual distance, which are also travelling at a velocity and trajectory pretty darn similar to his own.