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Wonder what a laser tracking 1kg slug of lead or iron dropped from orbit would be like...you know...idle curiosity.

• _abox 4y ago
  Probably like a meteor, mostly burning up in the atmosphere
  • kjs3 4y ago
    There you go killing my buzz with inconvenient facts. :-)
• inkyoto 4y ago
  It is not 1kg but 2kg, and it is not iron but tungsten. Which was, essentially, the Soviets response to Reagan's star wars programme: you deploy your satellites with lasers into the orbit, we deploy our satellites loaded with 2kg tungsten rods to perforate every single line of your defence. Unlike the Galra Empire that had Zaiforge cannons, humans have no protection against kinetic projectiles…
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