To: Norm Lenhart
Re: 'Rods from Gods'
The tech is 1950s to make it reality. Modern comps could target it to insane precision. The only cost is the payload getting a few dozen Tungsten phone poles into orbit.
Must be no profit in it for Defense Contractors.
But it sure would solve the Iran problem in 10 seconds with no fallout.
Hell it would solve our problems in Washington! LOL
53 posted on
02/25/2012 3:16:31 AM PST by
mkjessup
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To: mkjessup
Robert A. Heinlein’s novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress employs the concept of kinetic bombardment of the Earth from mass drivers on the Moon during a war of secession between the two planets.
73 posted on
02/25/2012 10:08:34 AM PST by
STD
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