Posted on 03/01/2017 8:08:54 AM PST by Heartlander
I read the article on kinetic bombardment. Evidently was is required are telephone-pole, 9 ton+ tungsten rods with fins and a guidance system. The shape minimizes air resistance, and tungsten is hard to burn. Downside: the guidance system would likely burn up after entering the atmosphere. (The other downside being to get these 9+ ton tungsten rods in orbit to begin with.)
telephone-pole-shaped
They’re very sharp in math also. Remember how many Americans were losing their jobs each month? According to Pelosi it was 300 million!
She actually isnt that wrong. The rock would need to be huge, and it would need to launched not dropped, but overall as a military resource it would be quite beneficial in the long term. As far as private enterprise she is totally wrong.
Brianna Wu ‘knows’ this is true, because she can see the Moon from her house.
The project was colloquially referred to as “Rods from God”.
Well the State Dept has been full of a bunch of Limpopos the last 8 years
That was in the article, but it seemed mildly irreverent. God’s bombardment left Sodom and Gamorrah an uninhabitable waste to this day. He wouldn’t fool around with tungsten telephone poles; He is far more resourceful than that.
Now, that post made me laugh!
I think I read something years ago about a concept for mining on the moon, where mined moon ore would be shot into lunar orbit for collection and return to earth...
Heck. I probably read that back in 1963...
It was used to send the Apollo astronauts to the moon and is used all the time to send satellites into orbit and replenish the International Space Station. GPS only works because we can put satellites into VERY VERY precise orbits.
A much harder problem would be to hit the Earth with something from the asteroid belt or the Oort cloud. There a few meters per second of velocity is the difference between a hit and a clean miss.
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I just looked her up, beyond scary. Let’s just say she won’t wu you with her looks or brain.
Less trouble to redirect some of the near-miss asteroids for an intercept trajectory. If one managed to put in place a course correction for an object approaching Earth from the Sun’s direction, poor viewing conditions with the current equipment would allow near closure without detection, limiting attempts to remedy only days from impact.
Beyond scary. Crazy people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GAk7jTxJdE
I don’t have time to engage in this. I wish that I hadn’t looked.
‘Less trouble to redirect some of the near-miss asteroids for an intercept trajectory.’
A fascinating idea. I wouldn’t have known it was possible.
Well, when it comes down to it, we don’t know how gravity
works. We know it’s effects and it’s the law but that’s
about it.
I’ll send ya’ll a text from the moon when I get it
figured out.
I get 3,096 fps (v2=2Gm/r).
NASA says 1.022 kilometers per second.
Good job.
Lots of small arms fire projectiles at above 1 K/S, including the AR-15. Of course, those small objects would not make it through the atmosphere intact.
But bigger objects could have heat shields and guidance systems.
We already have 155mm smart artillery shells that travel close to that.
No, I actually did the calculation wrong the first time. It comes to 2.375 kps when I tried it again.
Anyway, there is more than just escape velocity from the moon needed. The orbital velocity of the moon would also have to be cancelled for a projectile to reach earth, which requires even more velocity. But I think we’ve given this subject way more attention than it deserves, considering the motivation and intellectual prowess of the one who brought it up.
I must chastise myself and apologize to Heartlander for getting the attribution wrong. Heartlander did not demonstrate idiocy, only provided an example of idiocy for us to view. Bre Payton is in fact the idiot.
Again I apologize for my mistake. I should have been more careful.
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