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To: MARKUSPRIME
A Tungsten steel rod twenty feet long and one foot in diameter?

Gee, that sounds like an absurdly expensive waste of semi-precious metal.

3 posted on 03/30/2006 3:29:21 PM PST by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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To: The KG9 Kid
Gee, that sounds like an absurdly expensive waste of semi-precious metal.

That's nothing compared to the cost of hoisting that much mass into orbit.
4 posted on 03/30/2006 3:31:22 PM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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