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Congressional candidate: Moon-colonizing companies could destroy cities by dropping rocks (funny)
The Washington Times ^ | February 28, 2017 | Bradford Richardson

Posted on 02/28/2017 3:12:42 PM PST by jazusamo

Democrat Brianna Wu claims that Moon valuable militarily because rocks ‘have power of 100s of nuclear bombs’

A transgender-issues activist and Democratic candidate for Congress says the advent of the space tourism industry could give private corporations a “frightening amount of power” to destroy the Earth with rocks because of the Moon’s military importance.

Brianna Wu, a prominent “social justice warrior” in the “Gamergate” controversy who now is running for the House seat in Massachusetts’ 8th District, suggested in a since-deleted tweet that companies could drop rocks from the Moon.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 8thdistrict; briannawu; congress; democrat; gamergate; lgbt; moonbombwu; spacerocks
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To: Magnum44

You must have read mostly his very late stuff. Little of his early to mid career work went there - on the other hand, the ‘orgy’ books seem to have been prescient about how society is going anyway.

You should probably go give The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress a try. It’s available in eBook format cheaply from the usual sources. The math and physics in the book are dead on - and if you weren’t alarmed about the US’ retreat from space and current cession of the moon to the Chinese, you will be afterwards. Heinlein spent the rest of his life after the Apollo program ended up going nowhere desperately trying to get the US Government to realize what they’d done. Thanks to Democrats like Senator Proxmire, most of the government still doesn’t know or care.


61 posted on 02/28/2017 3:55:30 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Sidebar Moderator

That video is hilarious. Hank sounds like a doper hippie out of the ‘60s.


62 posted on 02/28/2017 3:56:16 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: reg45

A lunar mass driver can target and hit literally any fixed structure on the surface of the earth and anything in a fixed non-adjustable orbit. This includes military bases, factories, spacecraft launching facilities, naval yards, the GPS satellite system...


63 posted on 02/28/2017 3:57:15 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: jazusamo

Yes, he does! LOL


64 posted on 02/28/2017 3:57:15 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: RegulatorCountry

They have to be propelled at the mom’s escape velocity.


Yes. That is 7,800 fps. Some cannon have attained that velocity (big, experimental gas guns, Gerald Bull guns) and rail guns have far exceeded it.


65 posted on 02/28/2017 3:58:19 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: NorthMountain

We earthlings could screw up the Moonie’s aim by building yuge rockets parallel to the surface on both coasts aimed toward the oceans. When we detected a rock coming our way we could accelerate the earth’s rotation and they would hit San Francisco instead of New York. Then we’d fire up the opposite rockets to rotate the earth back to normal. Really.


66 posted on 02/28/2017 3:58:26 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: Magnum44

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is my favorite book from Heinlein for just an enjoyable scifi read.


67 posted on 02/28/2017 4:08:09 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Fiddlstix

You just can’t make stuff like this up, nobody would believe you.

Wow


68 posted on 02/28/2017 4:08:25 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: KC_Lion

The stupid, it BURNS!


69 posted on 02/28/2017 4:12:35 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sidebar Moderator
What Can I Say But........

GMTA


70 posted on 02/28/2017 4:20:40 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: dayglored
Yes Indeed
71 posted on 02/28/2017 4:21:34 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: gaijin

Aahhhhh! [runs away in terror]


72 posted on 02/28/2017 4:22:43 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: BwanaNdege

Call me when your trebuchet (or even your EMRail gun) can make 2.4 Km/sec


73 posted on 02/28/2017 4:23:12 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (I never ever set out to make anyone feel safe. - S E Hinton)
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To: jazusamo

What she says is true.


74 posted on 02/28/2017 4:27:50 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: jazusamo
Already been done...


75 posted on 02/28/2017 4:29:14 PM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: Sirius Lee

That was a wonderful book.


76 posted on 02/28/2017 4:30:29 PM PST by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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To: jazusamo

This is second greatest concern....right after Guam flipping over


77 posted on 02/28/2017 4:32:35 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Publius

You do understand that the book is a work of FICTION


78 posted on 02/28/2017 4:33:41 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

In the real world “she” is a “he” and I’m not convinced about the rest. :)


79 posted on 02/28/2017 4:34:17 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Nifster

But it’s based on sound science.


80 posted on 02/28/2017 4:34:28 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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