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Old 02-23-2020, 05:04 PM   #7
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Default Re: Coolant [Spaceships]

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Any spaceship that can traverse interplanetary space at a half-reasonable speed and which is of a decent mass is a WMD, if it follows physical laws as we understand them.
For some fun reading look up the "Rods from God" weapons platform. The basic idea of "Rods from God" is to put some telephone pole sized tungsten rods in orbit and then drop them on targets on the ground. Because of their size, shape, and composition they barely decelerate coming into the atmosphere and they hit with the equivalent force of a small nuclear weapon without any of the fallout.
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