Message from @DA GOMMIE JOO

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2018-06-10 19:49:43 UTC  

I'd say more of a street light

2018-06-10 19:50:08 UTC  

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

2018-06-10 19:51:09 UTC  

okay I did the math

2018-06-10 19:51:34 UTC  

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

2018-06-10 19:51:37 UTC  

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

2018-06-10 19:52:24 UTC  

so approximately 200 million dollars per rod

2018-06-10 19:52:29 UTC  

yeah that's impractical

2018-06-10 19:52:29 UTC  

yes

2018-06-10 19:52:36 UTC  

How the fuck did you do that math?

2018-06-10 19:52:53 UTC  

telephone pole average radius: 21.5 inches

2018-06-10 19:53:00 UTC  

height: 25 feet

2018-06-10 19:53:04 UTC  

(300 inches)

2018-06-10 19:53:44 UTC  

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

2018-06-10 19:54:19 UTC  

Pi times radius squared times height

2018-06-10 19:54:41 UTC  

so a telephone pole is about 436000 cubic inches

2018-06-10 19:55:15 UTC  

tungsten's density is 19.3 grams per cubic inch

2018-06-10 19:55:47 UTC  

19.3 x 436000 = 8414800 grams

2018-06-10 19:56:02 UTC  

convert that to pounds and you get 18551.45844 pounds

2018-06-10 19:56:11 UTC  

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

2018-06-10 19:56:34 UTC  

there was some rounding

2018-06-10 19:56:46 UTC  

so it's probably higher than 185.5 million dollars

2018-06-10 19:57:05 UTC  

HM..

2018-06-10 19:57:27 UTC  

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

2018-06-10 19:57:34 UTC  

Wait.

2018-06-10 19:57:41 UTC  

I just made an error

2018-06-10 19:57:45 UTC  

>Trying to kill people because I want to legalize breast milk

2018-06-10 19:57:45 UTC  

YEET

2018-06-10 19:58:03 UTC  

tungsten is 19.3 grams per cubic CENTIMETER
not cubic inch

2018-06-10 19:58:15 UTC  

So what does this change?

2018-06-10 19:58:17 UTC  

so it's actually like 463,786,400 dollars

2018-06-10 19:58:28 UTC  

for 1 pound?

2018-06-10 19:58:30 UTC  

after I did the cubic inch to cubic centimeter conversion

2018-06-10 19:58:31 UTC  

no

2018-06-10 19:58:33 UTC  

Right, we're doing this ICBM style.

2018-06-10 19:58:48 UTC  

this is for a telephone pole sized object, which was the original plan for kinetic bombardment

2018-06-10 19:58:59 UTC  

almost 500 million fucking dollars for one rod

2018-06-10 19:59:01 UTC  

Firing them into the atmosphere to then drift down

2018-06-10 19:59:30 UTC  

Literally gonna use metal rods like ICBMs

2018-06-10 19:59:59 UTC  

that'd be really tough because the missile would have to carry 23 fucking tons of tungsten

2018-06-10 20:00:17 UTC  

Eh

2018-06-10 20:00:31 UTC  

the tsar bomba (largest nuke ever built) weighed 5 tons