Weapons systems or military platforms stationed in space, designed to prevent hostile actions by an adversary through the threat of overwhelming, rapid, and inescapable retaliation from orbit. This is the ultimate high ground, where a platform could hold kinetic bombardment rods ("Rods from God"), lasers, or surveillance systems. The deterrent power comes from the inability of terrestrial defenses to reliably stop an attack that begins outside the atmosphere and has mere minutes to impact.
Example: In the novel Seveneves, the "Cloud Ark" and its defenders become a de facto Orbital Deterrent against Earth-based aggression. The theoretical system of tungsten telephone-pole-sized rods dropped from orbit to strike with the force of a nuclear weapon—without fallout—is a classic sci-fi example of a terrifyingly clean, fast, and unstoppable deterrent. Orbital Deterrents
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Example: "He'd always assumed that human reason could eventually understand everything. Cognitive Determinism suggested otherwise: there might be truths his brain simply couldn't grasp, realities his cognition couldn't model. The universe was likely far stranger than he could imagine—not because he wasn't smart enough, but because he was human enough."
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He is for the economic moral determinism movement.
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Ever since "The Donald" came to power, most of the government branches have largely "jumped the fence" and consolidated themselves into one huge Department of the Deterior!
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