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as it is taught in the Kingdom of Limpopo
Where Maxine Waters thinks we should send military aid to resist the Russian invasion
Wu has since doubled down on her earlier assertions that the moon is dangerous because you can fire a large rock from it and hit the earth.
Maybe she can move to Guam and balance the island so it doesn’t tip over when those moon rocks hit it. /s
The escape velocity of the moon is actually far more than you could hit a golf ball. It’s far more than you could fire a bullet. Everything with mass has gravity, including the moon. We know that because of all the manhole covers that get stuck to Rosie O’Donnell when she goes out.
I rise to join my colleague and declare that her theory has merit. Remember what happened to Buenos Aires when the Arachnid sent an asteroid from the Klendathu system.
It is getting quite challenging to decide which Dem has the least intelligence: This idiot, who thinks that you “drop” things from the Moon on to the Earth, Johnson with his Guam tipping over comments, or the dumbass harpy who rattled on about our manned landing on Mars.
Yeah, they’re the party of science...as in, “Science Fiction & Fantasy.”
And per Demonrats, Guam will tip over if too many Marines are stationed there.
Firing a rock from the moon? I’m trying to wrap my head around this one.
She knows what she is talking about because she herself was likely struck with a rock from the moon.
Why do I say that? Because she appears to be a lunatic.
“lunatic” from Lunaticus (late Latin), literally “moon-struck.”
He isn’t Chinese and he isn’t female. John Flynt is mentally ill
You should understand what your talking about before going public. I’m referring to you Heartlander, not Wu.
The gravity well between the Moon and Earth makes it completely possible to fling rocks from the moon as high speed kinetic weapons containing the destructive energy of nuclear weapons. If you want an education on the method, read Robert Heinlien’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. It contains a detailed tutorial on the technique. As for the question of why from the Moon and not from orbit. The moon is a ready source of raw material and not easily countered from Earth. Anything in orbit must first be lifted there and is always a ready target for Earth based defenses.
Congressman Wu may be an idiot, but Heartlander is a dangerous idiot for proclaiming someone stupid by loudly shouting something more stupid.
From the Wikipedia article on Kinetic Bombardment:
In the mid-1960s, popular science interest in orbital mechanics led to a number of science fiction stories which explored their implications. Among these was The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein in which the citizens of the Moon bombard the Earth with rocks wrapped in iron containers which are in turn fired from an electromagnetic launch system at Earth-based targets.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
This scene blew my mind as kid sitting in a theater a long time ago.....