At least 13 people were injured, five critically in two separate mass shootings at homeless encampments in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday. The first shooting took place at East Lake Street and Interstate 35W around 11am local time.
At least 13 people were injured, five critically in two separate mass shootings at homeless encampments in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday. The first shooting took place at East Lake Street and Interstate 35W around 11am local time.
So, what, some sort if orbital magnifying glass to burn them with? Wouldn’t the atmosphere make that really hard?
Not a magnifying glass. Giant tungton rods. No explosive need. Just drop them from space. Kinetic energy does the rest
Weaponizing giant tungsten rods takes a lot more than ‘dropping’ them, you can’t just let go when they’re in orbit and expect them to hit targets because … they’re in orbit, they ain’t going anywhere without some delta V. Plus, if they’re massive dense objects, getting them up INTO orbit is gonna take a ton of rocket fuel. At that point you might as well just use an ICBM with an explosive payload because the destruction-to-cost ratio is way better.
Probably the most expensive way to turn cash into 1/100th the energy of a nuclear bomb but I don’t want to give them any ideas.
It’s the rods from god program. It was not pursued for obvious reasons. I just wanted to sugjest an even more ridiculous solution than a giant orbital magnifying glass