Posted on 07/05/2005 9:22:13 PM PDT by orionblamblam
The arrogantly named "Rods from God" weapons from space weapons of mass destruction "WMD" program (see the second article below) is well underway and has received a substantial boost from the successful trial attack on comet Tempel-1.
Capping a series of other recent planetary death weapons tests such as the failed space mirror test conducted by the Planetary Society, the NASA probe "Deep Impact" provided military observers with significant data and analysis concerning the proper design for kinetic energy weapons configured to slam into an Earth ground target, releasing an explosion similar to an atomic weapon but without the radiation.
For further research on "Rods from God" see:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22RODS+FROM+GOD%22&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=i\ w
For other recent space weapons research, see:
PLANETARY SOCIETY TO TEST DEATH RAY WEAPON PLATFORM IN SPACE Islamic Community Net Tuesday June 21, 2005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/islamiccommunitynet/message/8380
Re: PLANETARY SOCIETY TO TEST DEATH RAY WEAPON PLATFORM IN SPACE Islamic Community Net Wednesday June 22, 2005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/islamiccommunitynet/message/8386
WESTERN SCIENTISTS SEE TROPICAL PEOPLE AS ''STEPPING STONES'' FOR SPACE PROJECTS Islamic Community Net Tuesday June 28, 2005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/islamiccommunitynet/message/8407
These crimes against all humanity are committed and recorded in broad daylight before a world public that is so stupefied by Hollywood imagery that it does not see the steady progression towards the weaponization of space. The world does not see the forest, because there are too many trees in the way.
(Excerpt) Read more at groups.yahoo.com ...
Still though, the idea of obliterating a bunch of Islamic fundies with a weapons system that sounds like the name of a 70's porno flick really appeals to me. ;)
You'd want highly elliptical orbits which could be slightly altered to make them intersect the figure of the earth, as we might put it abstractly.
To put an object into orbit at the same height at which its at rest requires half the ( negative ) potential energy of its rest position, so putting an object into LEO requires half its escape energy. This means that there is no orbit that requires more than twice the energy of LEO.
So, green light !
That is the whole point of Ortillery (ORbital arTILLERY)! Not only that, it would destroy very deep bunkers too and there would be no radiation-related deaths!
I won't develop an opinion untill a washed up limo-lib tells me what to think. < /liberal logic >
The "Rods" are a decendent of the "Thor's Hammer " idea proposed in the 80's as part of the 'High Frontier" initiative. It got together a bunch of Sci Fi types (RAH and Jerry Pournelle among them) retired military types and policy wonks. It proposed putting bundles of dense metal rods in polar orbits equiped with various sensors. On command the rods would deorbit, and become what amounted to a guided meteor shower. Apparantly the military is finally moving on this idea.
It could be used against fixed targets, armour, airfields, naval units, you name it.
You'd want highly elliptical orbits which could be slightly altered to make them intersect the figure of the earth, as we might put it abstractly.
Not sure I follow. Wouldn't you want the rod container vessels in a nice stable orbit? Then maybe launch the rods so that they go into your elliptical orbit?
I don't know for sure he was being egregious. I happen to remember the "Thor's Hammer" idea from a book I read of Pournelles which talked about the "High Frontier" initiative that predated Reagans Star Wars proposal. But thats ancient history now, and I've tried Googling it in the past and come up with very few hits. Maybe he just wasn't aware of the history.
Need a cheap heavy lifter for this to work at all.
But I think the country that has this rules the 21st century. It allows you to call down a massive precision artillery strike anywhere on earth within an hour or two.
We can fling pigs in at the mosques... yee haw!
Agreed. Of course we could always start up a mining operation on the Moon... ;)
www.jerrypournelle.com
He was associated with the "Standard" for years, and was pushed out for some reason he's never stated that I've seen. He seems rather bitter about it.
You're right, Project Thor was associated with the original "Space Truck" idea of the Shuttle, before it was down-rated by Nixon. The thought that every time the shuttle went up, it would take as many Thors as weight permitted after the primary mission allowed. They would be kicked out into various orbits and left. When cancelled, they were down to working on terminal guidance IIRC.
Between the NASA bureaucracy and Carter, that dream was killed off until NASA was just concerned about keeping the 20k second raters that were left in the Shuttle program in their jobs. (frown!)
By the time Reagan was elected, all the best people at NASA had moved on, and the ones left were pretty much middlin' to sub-standard IMHO.
If they used a gold colored alloy they could give the ragheads a golden shower
If we were really conscientious, we would resume research and development on the Neutron bomb, which destroys human targets without affecting infrastructure (buildings, bridges, roads, etc.).
I believe it was Jimmy Carter who ended this program.
Well, we need some real movement at NASA. The shuttle needs to be replaced, we need something that can get big payloads into space reliably and cheaply. There's no law that says we will always be dominant in space. I'd hate to see those Rod's marked PRC instead of USA.
The same group got upset when Armstrong walked on the moon.
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