You know, I love machines like this, but that Sonar is not gonna be good for sea mammals. Running 24/7?

Go shill somewhere else comrade. Whether or not it's rightfully theirs is unimportant; they took it back by force.

The sexy steam games can be patched usually to have their content restored.

With myself.

Correct. Kinda hard to trigger a nuke on impact when they detonate in mid air to optimize their effecitveness due to utilizing the shockwave bouncing off the ground to increase the concussive qualities of the blast.
Von Neumann was the man who made the determination that nuclear warheads should not be detonated at…

I guess it doesn’t matter as long as it work? But to do that, you’d need to bring the gun up, the solar panels, the ability to store energy from the solar panels in sufficient enough quantities to accelerate the slug at the required velocity, and a slug itself.

Seems like a lot of stuff to haul up into space for one…

No necessarily true. You have to store that energy in a capacitor bank or battery bank, and those can be very, very heavy.

We can definitely know if there’s enough energy to make a significant enough rock travel to Earth though. Simply calculate the smallest rock that could be dangerous, and make sure you don’t put enough energy up there to accelerate that rock in a way that it’ll hit Earth.

Um, I’m certain they do represent a big enough market.
And I seriously doubt they think they’re fine, they’ve just given up hope on improvement.

They’re incredibly depressing though. Read some of their stories, a lot of them have seriously tried. These people are a little bit beyond help, to a certain point. They’re…

I perceived you judging someone else directly, and was sad about the action, I did not judge you as a person.

Not the point I was even making.

I was looking for an excuse to write it now, so people could see it before they posted something along the same lines themselves.

Because even if you were kidding, somebody was going to say what you said seriously.

And you also did a fantastic job of attracting attention to the post by putting the massive picture in…

Going through the greys, looking for people asking good questions... Not the best, this time.

A MIRV launching several volleys of warheads could potentially be very effective.

The rock isn’t in orbit...

Small debris has increased surface area which slows it’s descent more and increases the effectiveness of aero-breaking which means a large quantity of it would have been burnt up in the atmosphere and what did make it down would have FAR less kinetic energy.

I remember, vaguely, where you’re getting your information…

Eh, you’d need a lot of energy to make the rail gun cost effective from a fuel standpoint. The smaller the round, the fast it needs to go to be effective. Nukes are nothing if not weight efficient for energy.

Yeah, I thought about adding that as an after thought. I’ve been playing a lot of Kerbal lately.

Hell, changing the angle of descent alone could make it far less deadly.

We’re blown up nukes way in the upper atmosphere before, the fallout is negligible because of how thin it spreads.

That and most people’s mental image of fallout comes from either Chernobyl, which involved launching ridiculous amounts of unspent fissable material into the lower atmosphere, or video games.

I was wondering is someone was going to mention this.

Nuclear bombs still provide energy in a vacuum, though of course far less. Most of the relevant energy will be thermal, which can melt gaseous deposits and break it apart, I guess. Thankfully, it’s recently been discovered that larger asteroids can have an…