Posted on 05/08/2017 10:28:21 AM PDT by blam
To be effective, shouldn’t Rods from God be smart?
I'm pretty sure those four guys are ground crew and those are hazmat suits not space suits.
The Shuttle caused a double sonic boom as it neared the Cape. Usually over Daytona Beach.
Depends on the return path. Where I live, we heard them about 50% of the time with the shuttle. Yesterday made me look out the window for the source of the big boom. If there were two booms, they were close enough to sound like one. I live in the center of Polk County.
Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons are banned from space.
Kinetic weapons are not.
It would have returned earlier, but the GSV (System Class - Special Circumstances) “Hubris Knows No Bounds” bound from Altair was delayed by a small brush fire war and had to wait until the locals were eliminated with a liberal Canister Anti-Matter dusting of their so-called Orbitals administered by the famous GOU/PS (Abominator Class) “Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints”. Special Circumstance had no comment.
The cargo of rare earths was successfully displaced for previously agreed on amounts of gold-pressed latinum. No penalties were attached as the mitigating factors were beyond the control of the crew of the GSV (System Class - Special Circumstances) “Hubris Knows No Bounds”.
S-3 Viking.
“Kinetic weapons are not.”
Yes, they are. Some dweeb on the Internet might try to claim a certain provision only stipulates weapons of mass destruction, but the “peaceful purposes” clause stipulates otherwise.
Small guidance package is all that’s needed.
Plausible deniability for a vaporized impact weapon. Shooting star just happened to hit something...
They would be structural stiffeners unless one got dropped by accident!
My mistake.Thanks for the correction.
Then the thing to do would be to hit UN first then the target /s in case NSA is looking
Probably. When I lived in Daytona, every landing that came over, and that was most, was accompanied by a distinct boom-—boom. Always cool.
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Hi.
I’d wager there are cameras on board. High res, and infrared.
5.56mm
Do the UN first???
The Outer Space Treaty represents the basic legal framework of international space law. Among its principles, it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise stationing them in outer space. It exclusively limits the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations, and fortifications (Article IV). However, the Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit and thus some highly destructive attack strategies such as kinetic bombardment are still potentially allowable. The treaty also states that the exploration of outer space shall be done to benefit all countries and that space shall be free for exploration and use by all the States.
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