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Originally Posted by Cohaagen
Right, so you're advocating the "survivability", a paranoid concept at best - this is presuming World War III, yeah? - of a terrestrial system over something floating in space? In that scenario (and it's the only credible or likely one) it's a question of which one outlasts the other by minutes or seconds.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
It's not just war, natural events could render satellites useless. Not saying it's likely, just good to have a backup, just in case.