Message from @DA GOMMIE JOO
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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
HM..
How about firing them into the atmosphere to then drift down?
Wait.
I just made an error
>Trying to kill people because I want to legalize breast milk
YEET
tungsten is 19.3 grams per cubic CENTIMETER
not cubic inch
So what does this change?
so it's actually like 463,786,400 dollars
for 1 pound?
after I did the cubic inch to cubic centimeter conversion
no
Right, we're doing this ICBM style.
this is for a telephone pole sized object, which was the original plan for kinetic bombardment
almost 500 million fucking dollars for one rod
Firing them into the atmosphere to then drift down
Literally gonna use metal rods like ICBMs
that'd be really tough because the missile would have to carry 23 fucking tons of tungsten
Eh
the tsar bomba (largest nuke ever built) weighed 5 tons