hang on

Depends.

"Using the Space Shuttle to get a pound of something to the Space Station, for example, costs around $10,000."

We could hire Space X to do it

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so how big would these rods be

Or attach weaponry on our satalites and strategically shoot down foreign satalites that then fall to Earth and hit the ghettos.

about the size of telephone poles I'm guessing?

Depends.

for the sake of simplicity

yes

I'd say more of a street light

But hey, the bigger it is, the more land it destroys.

okay I did the math

anyways, since we're talking ghettos, probably going to be in urban areas we'd need to reconstruct and all

it would cost 185,514,584 dollars to launch one fucking rod into space

so approximately 200 million dollars per rod

yeah that's impractical

yes

How the fuck did you do that math?

telephone pole average radius: 21.5 inches

height: 25 feet

(300 inches)

volume of a cylinder is Pi x r^2 x h

Pi times radius squared times height

so a telephone pole is about 436000 cubic inches

tungsten's density is 19.3 grams per cubic inch

19.3 x 436000 = 8414800 grams

convert that to pounds and you get 18551.45844 pounds

it costs 10,000 dollars to put 1 pound in space

there was some rounding

so it's probably higher than 185.5 million dollars

HM..

How about firing them into the atmosphere to then drift down?

Wait.

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