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To: Abathar

Even if the asteroid is a carbonaceous chondrite, I estimate weight at 500 tons. It is nickel-iron it cold weigh over 1000 tons.

When used to fill reentry vehicles with individual guidance systems and reentering at 7 km/sec. you have the equivalent of several thousand tons of TNT delivered anywhere on Earth and without warning.

The NKs could not bury a facility deep enough to escape such a weapon.

The Chicoms have plenty of good engineers. The physics are simple.

He who controls the High Ground will win. It had better be America!


22 posted on 08/25/2011 10:47:57 AM PDT by darth
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To: darth

Oops, typos made in haste. Cold = could. It = if.


23 posted on 08/25/2011 10:49:08 AM PDT by darth
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I’ve heard talk and speculation about that very idea, you have the speed and all you need is the mass and guidance.

Still, if you’re going to weaponize space it would be a lot cheaper to just build a stealth weapons platform with nukes than go through all that trouble, its not like you could do it quietly enough that the world wouldn’t know what you’re up to.


31 posted on 08/25/2011 11:34:09 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: darth
Even if the asteroid is a carbonaceous chondrite, I estimate weight at 500 tons. It is nickel-iron it cold weigh over 1000 tons. When used to fill reentry vehicles with individual guidance systems and reentering at 7 km/sec. you have the equivalent of several thousand tons of TNT delivered anywhere on Earth and without warning.

Robert Heinlein covered this decades ago in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

TANSTAAFL!

41 posted on 08/25/2011 12:26:25 PM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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