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.

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

the ICBM would collapse on the pad

Hm...

We'll see.

Gotta look into this a bit more..

the tsar bomba had to be delivered by plane, too, because it was TOO HEAVY TO BE PUT ON A MISSILE

Then again we're in the future and NASA has been researching how to lower the cost of putting stuff into orbit so by this time they could of done that.

this plan is a disaster waiting to happen and a huge waste of money

HM..

Fuck. Tried thinking of a pun to take the mick out of Communism but can't think of any way to phrase it...