Thread 16705777

From what altitude were the "Rods from God" supposed to be dropped from?

>>16705777 (OP)
Checked

>>16705777 (OP)
anywhere from low earth orbit is fine

>>16705884
you would have to wait for the mother fucker to get in position. It would take just a few hours for one to go from geo to sea level. They would need rocket guidance but still, you could cover half the planet with one satellite.

>>16705956
psst, same thing for laser satellites. Diffusion won't happen until you get like 60 miles from earth so you're good to have that sat in geo sync.

>>16705777 (OP)
This works and also doesn't work. You spend a lot of energy loading them. On top of that, people watching your launches are like
>hey why do you have giant tungsten rods on your shit
so you have to spend a bucket on fake satellites to run cover for it.
This weapon is much scarier in a space mining age.
Politically speaking, I would argue that each nation should be permitted to have one of these in space at our current paradigm. Like a fuck you button with the resulting judgement of the world keeping them in check. A sword of demascus hanging over a communities of peoples.
A single nuke would do the same, but there is not very effective(any?) means to ensure a country only gets one nuke, meanwhile a launch into space is significantly easier to monitor.

>>16705777 (OP)
you cant just drop them

>>16705956
>you would have to wait for the mother fucker to get in position.
Least of the problems with such a system. If you're going to go that far, might as well have at it with a strategic nuke.

>>16706000
Checked and /thread.

Another cold war schizo project. Why bother with all this shit when you just infect people with bat viruses.

>>16706090
Because you want to destroy the society's infrastructure not necessarily the slaves.