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To: Andrei Bulba

Again I remember a sci-fi novel where a war involved changing the trajectories of asteroids to impact a planet, some were even aimed by attached booster rockets.

Imagine some nation with the ability to launch rockets into space, land on a nearby orbiting rock and the make it change course to strike a specific part of planet Earth.


23 posted on 02/16/2013 12:58:35 AM PST by Eye of Unk
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To: Eye of Unk

Do you remember the name of that novel?


25 posted on 02/16/2013 1:12:34 AM PST by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: Eye of Unk

Better yet is “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert Heinlein. The “Loonies” (inhabitants on Earth’s Moon) rebel against an oppressive Earth Gov. & plunk the Earth with steel jacketed 100 ton boulders launched by magnetic catapult.

Great read: That book did more to make me a conservative back in my late teens than anything my parents could have done or said.


32 posted on 02/16/2013 1:43:39 AM PST by Paul R. (We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
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To: Eye of Unk

Wouldn’t it be easier to drop a bomb?


110 posted on 02/16/2013 8:22:38 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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