Congressional candidate: Moon-colonizing companies could destroy cities by dropping rocks (funny)

The Washington Times ^ | February 28, 2017 | Bradford Richardson

[jazusamo]

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[JoeFromSidney]

You can't drop rocks from the Moon. They have to be propelled at the mom's escape velocity

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[KarlInOhio]

As shown during Apollo 15 when David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon they both flew upward to Earth and hit it.

[Robert DeLong]

Wu Wu, I'm so pretty, pretty and gay.

[csvset]

Donna Chang

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

[dp0622]

ROFL!!!!

[Fiddlstix]

Next she’ll be sayin’ Guam is gonna capsize ....or..sumpin like that....

[Trump20162020]

Brianna Wu is a man whose real name is John Flynt.

What a total nut.

[jazusamo]

It’s a relief to know we survived that feather and hammer impact. :)

[reg45]

Destroy cities! What's the loss in that? If you take out Chicago, Illinois becomes a Republican state. If you take out New York City, New York becomes a Republican state. Etc.

Even so, it's far more likely that socialist governments would destroy cities than that capitalist corporations would.

[Spktyr]

The math and physics actually works for it; whoever ‘owns’ the moon can actually do that. Robert Heinlein (who keeps looking more and more prescient as time goes on) wrote the novel The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress about it, as others have noted. Lunar mass drivers would be shooting down into Earth’s powerful gravity well and could deliver nuclear class kinetic energy releases without the radiation. Think “Rods From God” but larger and with a longer delay.

Whoever owns Luna possesses the ultimate high ground upon which you cannot sneak up and any attack launched on it can be seen coming a long, long way off.

[RegulatorCountry]

They have to be propelled at the mom's escape velocity

[sphinx]

Only Bugs can do that.

[Spktyr]

A Lunar mass driver isn’t exactly hard to make and would indeed be the common sense system for regular return journeys from any lunar colony to earth. Lunar escape velocity is just 2.38 km/sec vice 11.2 km/sec from Earth.

[TomGuy]

I can see it now — a military drops a big moon rock, it hits Guam, and Guam flips over.

O the huge manatee!

We need to start a ‘Save Guam!’ movement NOW!

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[jazusamo]

Hey Hey Hey.

[Magnum44]

I never read ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.’ As a youngster I read Heinlein’s ‘Starship Troopers’ and loved it from the very beginning, though it slowed down after the first few chapters. I tried to read some other Heinlein, and he could have some fascinating plot ideas, but too many of them seemed to eventually just devolve into sex orgies between the characters and I lost interest in Heinlein books after seeing this in more than one of his works.