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"We've fired the missiles, sir" "Excellent... when do they hit?" "According to our calculations... ohhh about 6 weeks from now"
by cal5k 8y ago
"We've fired the missiles, sir"
"Excellent... when do they hit?"
"According to our calculations... ohhh about 6 weeks from now"
- isostatic 8y agoRevenge is a dish best served cold. I was thinking how Musk could do that. Launch some tungstan rods into a highly eliptical orbit, small thruster + control pack on them to adjust their orbit when required. When it's out at say 300,000k+ fire the engine for a few seconds, adjusting the orbit so it will crash into the chosen target a few days from now. The high apogee means not a lot of power to change orbit to collision, and almost impossible to detect. It would likely appear to be an asteroid hit.
- thrill 8y agoThat would certainly raise the level of Bitcoin blackmail.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoIt's rumored that the US military has a "Rod of God" satellite. No way to confirm its existence of course.
- rripken 8y agoYou may like Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
- ben_w 8y agoI’ve looked at this idea myself. At current cost per kg to LEO launch and kW/kg solar, even if you could totally ignore reaction mass (I dunno, invent a ramscoop for van Allen belts or something), it only becomes cost competitive with dynamite after a few years.
- DuskStar 8y agoDynamite doesn't come with a delivery mechanism though, which might change the equation a little.
- Tade0 8y agoI think his guy is in that Tesla Roadster in space.