Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
For us ignorant people, what the fudge is an ROG?My point is they aren't a weapon of mass-destruction and they're far from megaton range weapons.
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For us ignorant people, what the fudge is an ROG?My point is they aren't a weapon of mass-destruction and they're far from megaton range weapons.
"Rod of God" A kinetic energy weapon that conspiracy nuts believe were placed into orbit for use in the next world war.For us ignorant people, what the fudge is an ROG?
I think the point he is making is there is no way a ROG could have been lofted into orbit in the first place.
The amount of mass needed to generate that sort of kinetic energy is beyond man's ability to place in orbit.
My point is they aren't a weapon of mass-destruction and they're far from megaton range weapons.
For us ignorant people, what the fudge is an ROG?
the U.S. Air Force is reportedly considering the deployment of a highly sophisticated new weapons systems in space, which is currently under development under ‘Project Thor.’
Project Thor will see telephone pole sized tungsten rods, 20 feet long and 1 foot in diameter, dropped from American satellites to strike hardened bunkers and underground nuclear complexes. These rods will not carry warheads, but will strike at approximately to 10 times the speed of sound allowing them to cause tremendous damage with the sheer speed of their impact.
WMDs do not need to be in the megaton range. Just a few kilotons is enough. In fact, they do not even need to do that, a missile alone with no warhead can be a WMD.
Thank you for playing, please keep looking though. Because the truth is still out there, somewhere.
None, because there's nowhere to go.Every part of every American spacecraft was made by private industry. What prevented American companies in 1969 from taking the project, or a more ambitious project, over themselves?
What impetus would there have been to do that? What impetus is there for us to do it today?
Are they no longer in the megaton range?
They have never been in the first place.
They are a chimera, a figment of the imagination of the lunatic conspiracy theory nuts. Like Fluoride in the water and vaportrails.
Why this obsession, are you mad because I think they are just moonbeams and stardust?
The space race was the thought-child of the sci-fi age that saw Mars, even the Moon, as habitable and when we got over that (there are still some scifi's about those but no one supposes they'll be terraformed anymore; it's all about space suits and pressurized domed cities)
How can they be measured in megatons if they do NOT explode?WMDs do not need to be in the megaton range.
But you said,
"What, are one that believes that a megaton plus weapon does not qualify, simply because it uses kinetic energy and not nuclear to do the damage?"
Have you done any research since that whopper?
Are they no longer in the megaton range?
How can they be measured in megatons if they do NOT explode?
The Sentry Risk Table estimates that Apophis would impact Earth with kinetic energy equivalent to 1,200 megatons of TNT. In comparison, the Chicxulub impact which caused the mass extinction event responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs has been estimated to have released about as much energy as 100,000,000 megatons (100 teratons). The exact effects of any impact would vary based on the asteroid's composition, and the location and angle of impact. Any impact would be extremely detrimental to an area of thousands of square kilometres, but would be unlikely to have long-lasting global effects, such as the initiation of an impact winter.
How can they be measured in megatons if they do NOT explode?
But that asteroid has a huge mass and would have incredible velocity. A 20 foot rod of tungsten would not have that mass to create any where near that kinetic energy.In that, it is used as a frame of reference. Just as nukes, which do not actually have TNT in them. Asteroids also typically use such references, to give humans a common scale to rate the impact damage.
99942 Apophis - Wikipedia
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How can they be measured in megatons if they do NOT explode?
They strike at something like Mach 10, they're very heavy and very dense.
They're the opposite of a WMD. They're pinpoint weapons. Meant to take out a deep bunker that would survive a surface blast from a nuke. There were also versions discussed that
would have been much smaller, to take out tanks.
How would you target a tank from outer space? They can move you realize, right?
But that asteroid has a huge mass and would have incredible velocity. A 20 foot rod of tungsten would not have that mass to create any where near that kinetic energy.