Party Of Science: Democrat Congressional Candidate Brianna Wu Doesn't Know How Gravity Works

The Federalist ^ | February 28, 2017 | Bre Payton

[Fantasywriter]

Somebody better at engineering than I am needs to help me out. The earth is in constant motion, rotating around the sun. The moon is in constant motion, rotating around the earth. Anything fired from the moon would take time to get to earth. A, How would accurate aiming be achieved? B, How big would the projectile have to be, in order not to burn up in earth’s atmosphere?

[KC_for_Freedom]

A great novel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.

Moon fights for independence from Earth using a mining tool to accelerate ore and fire it to waiting locations on Earth. The tool was adapted to fire large rocks at cities.

[central_va]

Can God create a rock so large that even He can’t lift it?

[central_va]

The Apollo Moon mission was basically firing a projectile at the moon, and back again.

[Vic S]

We should send her up there to throw rocks down at Russia until they fess up that they colluded with Trump to get him elected.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I get 3,096 fps (v²=2Gm/r). In any case, yes only a high-tech gun could fire something at that speed, but then it would be small enough to just burn up in earth's atmosphere if given that (very precise) trajectory. The meteor that hit over Russia recently was several meters across. Launching something like that from the moon would be a major undertaking.

[xkaydet65]

She must have read and completely misunderstood The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

[Vic S]

We should send her up there to throw rocks down at Russia until they fess up that they colluded with Trump to get him elected.

[silverleaf]

Yeah! And maybe Viagra can fix that “soft power” Linseed Graham is worried about exercising through the US State Department

[Little Ray]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein.

She is correct.

But the technology and infrastructure for bombarding Earth with kinetic energy weapons (rocks) from the moon is a long, LONG way off. Building a catapult to throw packages to Earth will be labor intensive - we’ll know about it.

[Kickass Conservative]

Starship Troopers? Keep the Bugs off the Moon.

[Fantasywriter]

Right. So the anticipated projectile would cost as much as an unmanned moon mission.

However, point of reentry for space missions is to slow down sufficiently NOT to burn up in the atmosphere. The question remains, how big would the offensive projectile have to be in order for some reduced part of it to reach (earth) ground level and do damage?

[Wallace T.]

Brianna Wu is a feminist activist who was the focus on the Gamergate controversy. She and several others complained about allegedly sexist and misogynist video games. This led to a huge controversy with verbal fights and harassment allegations between SJWs and mostly male, libertarian and conservative leaning gamers. This fight is one of the undercurrents behind the grass roots rejection of the uniparty candidates like Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton last year. The Left strayed into what was really not their business and the gamers fought back.

Ms. Wu is running against Stephen Lynch, a sitting Democrat congressman who is a moderate, at least by New England standards, being pro-life and pro-defense, although liberal on most other issues.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Actually your figure is correct. I messed up the calculation.

[IYAS9YAS]

U.S. House candidate Brianna Wu, a Massachusetts Democrat, is worried that people will drop rocks from the moon that will hit the earth and kill people.

Well, either she's read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and is worried something like that will happen, or she's a moron.

My bet is she's never read Heinlein...

[central_va]

2001 Space Odyssey: Bone becomes a space craft.

This scene blew my mind as kid sitting in a theater a long time ago.....

[central_va]

Depends upon velocity. The faster it’s going the more it burns up.

[central_va]

Read this.

[central_va]

Read this.

[IYAS9YAS]

Congressman Wu may be an idiot, but Heartlander is a dangerous idiot for proclaiming someone stupid by loudly shouting something more stupid.

Can you show me something that links Heartlander to Bre Payton, who is the author. Heartlander posted the article, Bre Payton wrote it. Bre Payton is also female according to her by-line, and Heartlander is male, according to his "about" page. I see no link between the two anywhere.