Kinetic Bombardment Help
Kurt Feltenberger
(28 Nov 2014 16:51 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help
Tim
(29 Nov 2014 23:31 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help
Ian Whitchurch
(29 Nov 2014 23:46 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help
Kurt Feltenberger
(29 Nov 2014 23:50 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help
Tim
(30 Nov 2014 07:48 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help
Grimmund
(01 Dec 2014 02:44 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help Kurt Feltenberger (01 Dec 2014 03:25 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help
Ian Whitchurch
(01 Dec 2014 05:14 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help
Tim
(02 Dec 2014 04:11 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help
shadow@xxxxxx
(02 Dec 2014 13:07 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Kinetic Bombardment Help Kurt Feltenberger 01 Dec 2014 03:24 UTC
On 11/30/2014 9:43 PM, Grimmund wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Tim<xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote: >> >On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 06:50:22PM -0500, Kurt Feltenberger wrote: >>> >>Thanks for the reply! Currently the dimensions aren't quite what you >>> >>have listed...the Mjolnir-A is 69.37m long by 7m in diameter, while >>> >>the Mjolnir-B is 38.6m long by 3.5m in diameter. >> > >> >Yes, those are fine and covered by "arbitrarily larger". So about >> >50 000 tonnes for Mjolnir-A and 7000 tonnes for Mjolnir-B if made from >> >solid tungsten. > That seems kinda damn expensive for slugs. > > Is there some particular reason to not use nuclear weapons at that size? There are a couple reasons. First, getting the weapon to the target through what might be a very effective integrated defensive system of small caliber kinetic and missile defenses. A nuke could go as fast, but once past a certain velocity you'll have more energy released on impact than a similar sized/mass nuke. Second, they're clean with regards to radioactive fallout. Third, they're easier to create. Fourth, they make a very big hole in the ground and will pretty much collapse must subsurface structures within 100+ km of the impact point. At least that's the reasoning within the BSG universe as I've developed it. -- Kurt Feltenberger xxxxxx@thepaw.org/xxxxxx@yahoo.com “Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me