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An orbit that start on the surface ends on the surface, in a single turn. That can be a while if you near the escape velocity, still a slim chance to hit anyth
by jojobas 3y ago
An orbit that start on the surface ends on the surface, in a single turn.
That can be a while if you near the escape velocity, still a slim chance to hit anything.
There's a huge gap in hit probability between "dangerous enough to consider safety" and "good enough to be a weapon".
- dredmorbius 3y agoThe mechanism would loft a cloud of particles with a wide range of trajectories through a notoriously uneven gravitational field. The odds that a sufficient fraction of particles would remain in orbit for long enough to make routine operations in low lunar orbit or on the surface itself seems ... plausible. And of course, the situation could be compounded by multiple burns and/or at multiple points on the surface, at a somewhat increased cost to the attacker.