To: Callahan
Cool idea.
Reminds me of a Sci-Fi story (Heinlein?) about moon (or maybe even Mars) colonists who get treated to the old "taxation without representation" delio
They don't possess offensive weapons (or do they?). They put together a "catapult" system that flings over-sized clods of rock at the Earth (with devastating results).
Low-tech solution to high-tech problem.......
16 posted on
07/05/2005 9:50:28 PM PDT by
rockrr
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To: rockrr
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (RAH is correct)
See also
Footfall (Niven & Pournell)
Lucifer's Hammer (ibid)
High Frontier (Niven et al)
Rocks are good enough, if you are high enough.
28 posted on
07/05/2005 10:45:45 PM PDT by
ASOC
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To: rockrr
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
The residents of the Moon are tired of being an oppressed colony of Earth and decide to fight with kinetic energy weapons. They launch big rocks from the moon, one by one, and let them fall on various targets on the Earth, making very large craters, until recognized as sovereign.
29 posted on
07/05/2005 10:56:13 PM PDT by
spinestein
(The facts fairly and honestly presented, truth will take care of itself.)
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