Posted by
michael
on from the tungsten-rods-dropped-from-500-miles-up dept.
anzha writes "Space.com is running an article on a RANDstudy about space based weapons and their potential effects on wars on more solid ground. Fascinating stuff."
Star Wars? Looney Toons more like it.
by
caca_phony
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· Score: 2, Funny
From the article: Then there are the thunder rods. Tossed down from orbit, these long and slender kinetic-energy devices use their own mass and very high velocity to create a destructive effect.
Lastly, for those looking for a celestial "big whopper" of a weapon, how about using natural meteoroids? Good-sized fireballs of metal could be sent to Earth, aimed at targets of choice. These impactors leave a nice crater.
so the only really reasonable weapons are basicly fancy hi tech names for dropping an anvil on the other guys head like they do in Looney Toons. Finally, my sig is appropriate;)
-- ...and this lie crawls out of its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.'
In the basement at Rand headquarters
by
Hard_Code
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· Score: 3, Funny
Eric: *puff* so here we are again guys Fez: Hey hey, let's play that game...joo know...where we think about ways to annihilate ourselves from space! *puff* Kelso: Yeah! Annihilation! Cool! *puff* Hyde: *puff* Ok - check this out - what if we like put LASERS up on satellites, and like, shoot people from space. Like in Star Wars! Eric: Haha yeah! *puff* No no wait - what if we just toss junk down and let the kinetic energy gained through falling through earth's atmosphere yeild an inexpensive but highly destructive bomb! Kelso: Like bowling balls! Fez: Well, guys, what if we just divert asteroids that are already up there? You know not *all* of us have money for expensive space programs. Eric: *puff* But...wait...what if something happens to our satellites? Hyde: *puff* Like anti-satellites? Fez: Aye...we need like anti-anti-satellites! Kelso: I say we just drop conventional weapons - this sci fi stuff is too confusing. Donna: *snorkle* Hahahah...You said balls!
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From the article:
;)
Then there are the thunder rods. Tossed down from orbit, these long and slender kinetic-energy devices use their own mass and very high velocity to create a destructive effect.
Lastly, for those looking for a celestial "big whopper" of a weapon, how about using natural meteoroids? Good-sized fireballs of metal could be sent to Earth, aimed at targets of choice. These impactors leave a nice crater.
so the only really reasonable weapons are basicly fancy hi tech names for dropping an anvil on the other guys head like they do in Looney Toons. Finally, my sig is appropriate
...and this lie crawls out of its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.'
Eric: *puff* so here we are again guys
Fez: Hey hey, let's play that game...joo know...where we think about ways to annihilate ourselves from space! *puff*
Kelso: Yeah! Annihilation! Cool! *puff*
Hyde: *puff* Ok - check this out - what if we like put LASERS up on satellites, and like, shoot people from space. Like in Star Wars!
Eric: Haha yeah! *puff* No no wait - what if we just toss junk down and let the kinetic energy gained through falling through earth's atmosphere yeild an inexpensive but highly destructive bomb!
Kelso: Like bowling balls!
Fez: Well, guys, what if we just divert asteroids that are already up there? You know not *all* of us have money for expensive space programs.
Eric: *puff* But...wait...what if something happens to our satellites?
Hyde: *puff* Like anti-satellites?
Fez: Aye...we need like anti-anti-satellites!
Kelso: I say we just drop conventional weapons - this sci fi stuff is too confusing.
Donna: *snorkle* Hahahah...You said balls!
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