i think first really we should be racing to exploit the asteriod belt

Trump has a more economy-efficient plan

Economic warfare,

Dry other countries economic independence away, so that America can just hold all the cards and strings

one tungsten rod impact would have the same energy as a blast of 11,5 tons of tnt
that's a small nuke 😃

the thing you gotta remember about energy transfer trough the air, is that it tends to lose effect quadratically with distance

@mer.at yes. And it will require a lot more energy to bring it down than it will impact.And even more to bring it up AND the neccessary fuel to bring it down up as well

when you hold a frozen turkey in the air right next to a radio tower, you can bake it in no time, but even 10 meters away and you will stand there for a lifetime trying to cook that turkey

thats bullshit

it's only 9 tons

9 tons of tungston?

9 tons are 9 tons, regardless of the material X-D

Yeah that will require more than 11kilotons of tnt to get into and out of orbit.

so?

a fully loaded spacex dragon has 6 tons

so you could just drop tnt instead. or better yet, a nuke which would actualy make sense to drop from orbit.

6 tons of useable freight capacity

nope

the rod would penetrate much deeper

Heres a better plan, instead of making Earth look like the Moon,

Lets not use such wasteful antics, and just win through economics? 😛

the MOAB has 11 tons of tnt equivalent

what are you, a lunarphobe? @Dr.Wol

but you have to deliver that fucker somehow

try to drop a moab on kim

I see Luna as our little sister,

To immitate it is just plain weird

dude Kim is a nice guy, he loves Trump

fly your B52 over north korea ... good luck

sends him lovely letters

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tungsten rods could work as ammo if we can mine it off-planet

instead of carrying all that shit up

while you can drop a tungsten rod in under 10 minutes on him 😃

doesn't matter if he is sunbathing, or 50 meters underground

we must protect earth-chan

https://youtu.be/mUctQdT0irk?t=2m20s

you can only drop it in under 10 minutes if either you have many of those rods in orbit or the one you do is allready centralised on him.

12 rods would be enough to have a 8 minute response time globally 😉

well, *guranteed* in under 10 minutes that is

actually we should just keep hitting the same place with those 11mt rods and dig deeper than we have before

carve out our planet

well not globally, but you won't bomb penguins and polar bears

12 rods would be 12 spacex starts