New bunker-buster weapon? - "Rods from God"....(Holy shit!)

[Webster Green]

Imagine a bundle of telephone poles hurtling through space at 7,000 mph

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/12/INGS6HID5A1.DTL

[charlyvi]

1. Rods from God?

It sounds so repuke....kind of exemplifies that fascist/religious extremist/homosexual repression thingy.

[C_U_L8R]

2. They need to be tipped

like penises.

That would be a more appropriate symbol.

[Ian David]

3. Was it Larry Niven or Arthur C. Clarke that thought of this first? n/t

[Nihil]

5. Think it was Niven but wouldn't fight over it. (n/t)

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[Nihil]

4. Old news

They've been around for a while.

(This is not to denigrate the effectiveness of such a KE weapon
but merely to state that as the concept has been around for years,
it has probably been implemented by now and there are suitable
launch satellites in place today.)

[BringEmOn]

6. Sounds like the Gannon wing of the WH Press Corps.

[AX10]

7. WHO THE F*&$ got the name "Rods from God"?

:wtf:? That is sick as HELL! :puke: :grr:

[Ian David]

8. Over a year ago I said that this was real reason Bush wants base on Moon

I posted my conspiracy conjecture here on DU somewhere.

The idea is that one could build a mass-driver weapon (for example, a solar-powered electric railgun) on The Moon and have a virtually limitless supply of kinetic-kill projectiles to rain down upon the Earth.

Everything from precision "Rods from God" to just plain old giant rocks for carpet-bombing civilian populations or vaporizing lakes.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. IF and WHEN some of his kind return, they are NOT going to

spare the rod on people who have the tendency to use his name to play a killing game.

[Cocoa]

9. sounds expensive

space weapons sounds like a good way to give a lot of money to someone.

[OneBlueSky]

11. humankind needs to ban the development of new weapons . . .

and new weapons systems . . . those already in existence are more than sufficient to wipe out every vestige of life on the planet many times over, thank you very much . . .

[Daphne08]

12. Will mankind NEVER tire of finding ways to kill one another? n/t

[Random_Australian]

13. No. All a weapon ever is, before it is used,

is a way to assuage mans conscience that he will prevent another from killing him; to do that in a nuclear age means you must be able to kill all of your enemies before they destroy you; ergo the sum total potential damage is irrelevant.

Concordantly, man will never abate from his quest of seeking 'better' ways of killing one another.

Then a weapon is used, and all that ceases, it becomes merely an extension of the hands of the False Emperor to throttle the life from anything deemed 'enemy'.