U.S. going back to moon

[Liz Not Beth]

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[First of Two]

Super-sized.

[REG]

Originally posted by Liz Not Beth

Hey, I'm the only one with double whop-

Ok, lets leave this one alone.

I agree. If this conversation goes any further, we may eventually have to talk about them onion rings.

[StyroFoam Man]

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[Liz Not Beth]

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[First of Two]

Google on "rods from God" or "Project Thor" and you'll get there eventually.

IIRC, the concept was originally proposed by military SF writer Jerry Pournelle.

The "hard" part of it is getting the tungsten (heavy) out of the Earth's gravity well and into orbit.

Or you could read "Footfall," by Pournelle and Niven, in which a similar attack is launched by aliens attacking Earth (using ice bits from Saturn's rings, IIRC), to rather signifigant effect.

Then they drop a bigger asteroid into the Indian Ocean -- bye-bye India, and all coastal areas anywhere nearby.

[Tobian]

Getting back on track..

First of Two - I don't think that anyone owning a weapons such as that would be a discentive to stop the enemy from building them.. It's all about brinkmanship. The American's are hardly likelly to start dropping them on to China if they start their own program are they ! Not unless they want to take on someone THAT large. I don't care how clever american weapons are.. there's just TOO many Chinese

[Liz Not Beth]

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[REG]

Originally posted by Tobian

It's funny but we all seem to be concerned about the Chineese developing technology that the Americans are developing.... why are the Americans developing space weapons!! I'm not sure i feel that confortable about the idea that the americans can have orbital weapons platforms either - because as ALWAYS has happened in the past - it leads to an arms race, meaning someone is going to want to have them too - if they didn't have them, then no one else would want to have one!

With all due respect, just because the Americans aren't developing the next generation weapon technology, doesn't mean others will not. The Chinese or any rich third world country would just do so, just in case we decided to begin development. If we stop, then threat nation will consider this an opportunity to catch up and surpass the American "superpower."

Just as we see Microsoft and Wizards of the Coast, other nations looked at us with green eyes of jealousy, now that USSR, a former superpower, no longer compete with the Americans. They'd like nothing more than to peg us down for being influential in the international community.

Come to think of it, it is human nature.

[Garet]

2 weeks ago a friend of mine figured out how to get us back to the moon. Tell Government that saddam is on the moon and we'll be back in no time

[Liz Not Beth]

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