Insane View of Earth From Space

[BeachBum Unreal]

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

nuke it

 

[OfTheCross]

 

[hashmander]

in case you don't feel like clicking: kyrie is right, the earth is flat.

 

[Leasy]

shyt crazy and you can't even tell life is all over that planet every inch. Imagine what other planets look like in the universe

 

[Professor Emeritus]

My mind is messed up cause I look at that and think of what crazy weapons you could drop from that height:

A system described in the 2003 United States Air Force report[citation needed] was that of 20-foot-long, 1-foot-diameter tungsten rods that are satellite-controlled and have global strike capability, with impact speeds of Mach 10.

The bomb would naturally contain a large kinetic energy because it moves at orbital velocities, around 8 kilometres per second in orbit and 3 kilometres per second at impact. As the rod reenters Earth's atmosphere it would lose most of the velocity, but the remaining energy would cause considerable damage. Some systems are quoted as having the yield of a small tactical nuclear bomb. These designs are envisioned as a bunker buster. As the name suggests, the 'bunker buster' is powerful enough to destroy a nuclear bunker. With 6–8 satellites on a given orbit, a target could be hit within 12–15 minutes from any given time, less than half the time taken by an ICBM and without the launch warning. Such a system could also be equipped with sensors to detect incoming anti-ballistic missile-type threats and relatively light protective measures to use against them (e.g. Hit-To-Kill Missiles or megawatt-class chemical laser). The time between deorbit and impact would only be a few minutes, and depending on the orbits and positions in the orbits, the system would have a worldwide range.

In the case of the system mentioned in the 2003 Air Force report above, a 20 ft × 1 ft tungsten cylinder impacting at Mach 10 has a kinetic energy equivalent to approximately 11.5 tons of TNT (48 GJ). The mass of such a cylinder is itself greater than 8 tons, so the practical applications of such a system are limited to those situations where its other characteristics provide a clear and decisive advantage—a conventional bomb/warhead of similar weight to the tungsten rod, delivered by conventional means, provides similar destructive capability and is far more practical and cost-effective.

The highly elongated shape and high mass of the projectiles are intended to enhance sectional density (and therefore minimize kinetic energy loss due to air friction) and maximize penetration of hard or buried targets. The larger device is expected to be quite effective at penetrating deeply buried bunkers and other command and control targets.

The weapon would be very hard to defend against. It has a very high closing velocity and small radar cross-section. Launch is difficult to detect. Any infrared launch signature occurs in orbit, at no fixed position. The infrared launch signature also has a much smaller magnitude compared to a ballistic missile launch. The system would also have to cope with atmospheric heating from re-entry, which could melt non-tungsten components of the weapon.

The phrase "rods from God" is also used to describe the same concept. An Air Force report called them "hypervelocity rod bundles".

 

[BeachBum Unreal]

My mind is messed up cause I look at that and think of what crazy weapons you could drop from that height:

Yeah man thinking about a weapon dropped from that height is a scary ass thought.

 

[Hood Critic]

My mind is messed up cause I look at that and think of what crazy weapons you could drop from that height:

The earthquakes and after shocks that would generate would get it banned.

Its funny, me and one of my old heads was just talking about how you could feel the after shock miles away after we dropped bunker busters in Afghanistan.

 

[Yessir_Araphat]

Ya’ll should look up Project Thor. The idea was to drop telephone pole sized tungsten rods from space, and the kinetic energy it would generate, it would hit at 10X’s the speed of sound. It supposedly would penetrate hundreds of feet



that shyt would be expensive as hell, as it would cost hundreds of millions each rod to get them to space