[Frank_Discussion]

If your target has a 1 mile-per-second speed advantage on you, and can give itself a nudge during your targeting phase, it'll be out of range before you can react.

The Chinese economy is quite large right now, and is only going to grow if we don't address the problem. The largess will be there to build such a system, if they entrench themselves on the Moon before we can do the same.

[Fitzcarraldo]

The Chinese economy is quite large right now, and is only going to grow if we don't address the problem.

Then we nip the problem now, on Earth, before they get moondust on their shoes.

[listenhillary]

I don't think Fitzcarraldo believes that throwing rocks from the moon would allow China to call the shots.

[Fitzcarraldo]

If your target has a 1 mile-per-second speed advantage on you, and can give itself a nudge during your targeting phase, it'll be out of range before you can react.

Then we would cloak our targeting phase somehow.