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- Nov 4, 2017
I'm waiting to Wu to blame her dog's death on a weaponized "cow-killer" asteroid.
Well, you couldn't exactly hack into a rock, or blast a large rock into pieces, since rocks are dumb and blasting it into pieces would result in, say, 11,000 one ton rocks hitting an area rather than just one large goddamn rock hitting one city.
Also, I'd be a tad concerned about the idea of the smaller rock fragments now being radioactive due to being nuked.
Granted, considering the closest thing we actually had to a space weapon was Nazi Germany's sun gun...
(Protip, if you haven't been melted by space Nazis with solar lasers, it didn't work. Mostly due to the lack of space travel, but they say they totally could have done it if nobody interfered with them for 20 years.)
You'd want to blow the rock up before it hit atmosphere, then the 11,000 1-ton rocks would all burn up- or at least you'd create an aerodynamic flaw that might cause it to break up once atmospheric friction took over. The radioactivity from moonrocks being nuked would be a non-issue given the times and distances involved. Especially since you'd want max yeild from your asteroid killer, so you'd want to make sure it was a 3-stage at full power. The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuke ever detonated, was also one of the cleanest. The triple-stage warhead was allowed to fully react so almost all of the radioactive material was consumed and the fallout was minimal. :tmyk:
This is assuming they don't just see you when you go there to the Moon and start setting up shit to do this. This will take months. And I don't know if John has noticed this, but you can kind of look up and see the Moon and we have these things called "telescopes" and we routinely look at it. There is absolutely zero chance of anything like this getting started without the entire world immediately extremely curious as to what you're doing with these structures you're building on the Moon. And you'd better have a good answer if you're Dr. Evil or we're just going to retrofit a few nukes and nuke whatever it is off the face of the Moon.
I can't believe John is so bafflingly stupid that he'd fail to realize he completely got his ass kicked like this and made himself look like an even bigger moron than he already looked, and now he wants Moon Rocks 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Yeah, I didn't bother addressing huge holes in Wu's Moonrocks paranoia because I even if you were a Bond villain who got your gigawatt nuclear reactors built and powered up with no one noticing because you said it was something else, and assuming you had a launch vehicle that could hoist 2000tons (11,000,000 Kg of mass) at enough velocity to escape lunar gravity, its STILL going to be almost impossible to launch rocks at the earth with any sort of accuracy. And again, with current technology, you'd need to use nuclear energy of some form. So you've got nukes, why not just use those?