That’s what I thought, small power stations using the same setup as
the grav drive car engines.
small, simple, and easy to install. The end of the power grid!
I figured there would be issues like this with that large of a missile,
I guess the AI’s will help a lot with the recovery. 218? NOT good…
I don’t see 218 getting through as bad.
It IS over 92% taken out.
No defensive system is going to be perfect,
after all.
Israel’s “Iron Dome” for sure isn’t and it’s easily the
best missile defense system in operation right now.
True, but that many depending on where they land,
can cause a lot of harm. I’ve heard about the Iron
dome and its actual limits vs the hype, it’s still the
best out there yes. I’m just worried about the
innocents on the planet is all.
I don’t know the full kinetic speed of the missiles but
only a couple hit a populated area and that is bad.
If one hits close enough to the coast that the
displacement wave takes out coastal towns.
If the missiles are “enhanced” (dirty or atomic),
you have fall out issues.
There is going to be some pain this time.
I just did the math, if those missiles weigh 34,000 kg
my guess on 70,000 lbs was short, that comes out to
just shy of 75,000 lbs. So we are talking bunker-buster
sized missiles with 2 stage engines. Fired at far orbit
range we’re talking at least 1-3 megatons of kinetic
energy, plus whatever type of war head they have.
Just 10 could wipe out one of the island’s life, be it
2 legged or 4.
project “Thor” drops rods from 250 miles…
and reach mach 10 due to air resistance,. otherwise mach 24.!
which happens to be the speed of an ICBM in space…
18,000 mph or mach 23.45.
I keep waiting for the Thorium salts small nuke reactors
to become affordable enough to buy one for my house.
Closest thing we have to a Shipstone so far.
I looked into that after seeing it talked about some years back.
The biggest issue isn’t the tech or the cost, just that they don’t
make weapon’s grade plutonium…
They make that 1% of the waste of the U-238 reactors and are
very easy to find the fuel for. Thorium is as common as sand
and is NOT toxic to the body.
Mass detectors are slower to respond than radar.
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I can see the advertisements now: ‘Keep Yellen for power!’
Double pun, BONUS!
Ow my head! Oh the puns, the puns!
LOL!!
I keep picturing Bruce from “Bruce Almighty”
singing “I got the power!” So… Yellen:
“I GOT THE POWER!” 😛
(face-palm) Yellen… Yellen…
*sigh…
That’s what I thought, small power stations using the same setup as
the grav drive car engines.
small, simple, and easy to install. The end of the power grid!
I figured there would be issues like this with that large of a missile,
I guess the AI’s will help a lot with the recovery. 218? NOT good…
I don’t see 218 getting through as bad.
It IS over 92% taken out.
No defensive system is going to be perfect,
after all.
Israel’s “Iron Dome” for sure isn’t and it’s easily the
best missile defense system in operation right now.
True, but that many depending on where they land,
can cause a lot of harm. I’ve heard about the Iron
dome and its actual limits vs the hype, it’s still the
best out there yes. I’m just worried about the
innocents on the planet is all.
I don’t know the full kinetic speed of the missiles but
only a couple hit a populated area and that is bad.
If one hits close enough to the coast that the
displacement wave takes out coastal towns.
If the missiles are “enhanced” (dirty or atomic),
you have fall out issues.
There is going to be some pain this time.
I just did the math, if those missiles weigh 34,000 kg
my guess on 70,000 lbs was short, that comes out to
just shy of 75,000 lbs. So we are talking bunker-buster
sized missiles with 2 stage engines. Fired at far orbit
range we’re talking at least 1-3 megatons of kinetic
energy, plus whatever type of war head they have.
Just 10 could wipe out one of the island’s life, be it
2 legged or 4.
edit: 34,000kg = 74.957.1lbs or 37.4 tons.
project “Thor” drops rods from 250 miles…
and reach mach 10 due to air resistance,. otherwise mach 24.!
which happens to be the speed of an ICBM in space…
18,000 mph or mach 23.45.
I keep waiting for the Thorium salts small nuke reactors
to become affordable enough to buy one for my house.
Closest thing we have to a Shipstone so far.
I looked into that after seeing it talked about some years back.
The biggest issue isn’t the tech or the cost, just that they don’t
make weapon’s grade plutonium…
They make that 1% of the waste of the U-238 reactors and are
very easy to find the fuel for. Thorium is as common as sand
and is NOT toxic to the body.
Damn, this triggered a migraine for me:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_pCJWiC_HnI