>The Pentagon’s New Super Weapon Is Basically A Weaponized Meteor Strike
>In the 1950s, Jerry Pournelle imagined the military equivalent of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
>Toiling away as a Boeing operations researcher in the afterglow of the Manhattan Project and the Soviet Union’s First Lightning nuclear test in 1949, the U.S. Army veteran envisioned a weapons system armed not with munitions and other chemical explosives, but massive rods forged from heavy metals dropped from sub-orbital heights. Those “tungsten thunderbolts,” as the New York Times called them, would impact enemy strongholds below with the devastating velocity of a dino-exterminating impact, obliterating highly fortified targets — like, say, Iranian centrifuges or North Korean bunkers — without the mess of nuclear fallout.
wtf are you talking about? That's not a kinetic weapon.
Stupid fuck
Elijah Hughes
weaponizing space is a Big No No! you signed up to not do that!
Leo Powell
nigga, 'kinetic' means anything non-diplomatic. hitting someone with a bat is kinetic option. fucking call of duty generation
Xavier Jones
kinetic means a weapon with kinetic energy, directed energy weapons like lasers won't have that
remember your russian science class terms "kinetic energy" and "potential energy" ?
Parker Lopez
That must be why it's in quotes, because he meant it could be anything.
Go back into the bottle Ivan
Robert Allen
signed up not to drop nukes or germs from space. We never promised to not accidentally drop massive tungsten rods from space.
Evan Miller
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Xavier Foster
Not this gi joe meme weapon again
Kayden Taylor
i guess someone could argue that photos from a laser weapon have a minuscule amount of kinetic energy to impart, and there are lots of them...
but really it isn't imparting force with the laser that is the primary mechanism
Jayden Gray
photons*
Jaxson Edwards
You're taking it too literally and aren't familiar with the sanitized double speak within the military. Kinetic = force. It's like when they're talking about raiding a compound and say they "reduced" a threat, ie they shot a guy.
Zachary Cox
the rod(rods from god) will strike the ring(ring of fire) the end is night witness
Jaxson Miller
oh, ok
Nolan Gomez
It only applies to WMD's
Justin Turner
Remember the TianJin explosion Sup Forums?
Kevin Williams
So you think stupid fuck
Chase Barnes
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Andrew Bell
Article IV States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.
Alexander Robinson
According to Jewpedia, the outer space treaty says nothing about telephone pole sized tungsten rods.
They're gonna launch rocks from the moon. At that distance hitting earth would be like multiple hydrogen bombs going off.
Levi Carter
Isn't this sort of thing prohibited by treaties reagarding the militarization of space?
Daniel Collins
S K U L L J A C K E R
Gabriel Brooks
You can't militarize space, and most satelites nowadays are launched either via the private sector or the Baikonur cosmodrome X
Liam Peterson
Oh shiiiiiiiiiit
Jack Evans
It's not technically a WMD. It's just a metal rod that can fuck up a bunker.
Dylan Torres
a tungsten rod isn't a wmd. They are positioned in LEO as well.
Lincoln Cox
>there's no military solution for NK Bring on the sci-fi solution >what do you mean, "fiction"?
Austin Roberts
incorrect. You can't put nukes or WMDs in space. There is nothing about god rods
Jonathan Brown
so is there a giant spinning magnet in the center there pushing something steel down a tube?
Zachary Stewart
>aol.com wow who knew they still existed
Nolan Reyes
It's not a weapon, It's just a rod of metal.
Camden Martin
Didn't they do an analysis about terminal velocity and how big the round had to be to drop? It was insanely big if I remember.
Samuel Sanders
what would it cost to launch a telephone pole made out of tungsten into space? aside from the fact they would have to design a new ship to carry it.
Benjamin Brooks
A telephone pole sized Tungsten rod traveling at terminal velocity is going to fuck some shit up.
Jordan Morales
No.
Besides what are you chimps going to do about it? You barely have a military.
Jackson Flores
don't blame me, when china/Russia start to weaponize space also
Andrew Lee
>implying they haven't
Connor Gomez
the weapon releases 20 of them at one forming a massive ring of destruction
Austin Gonzalez
detonating fatass's own nuclear weapons before launch would accomplish a lot of strategic goals
Kevin Adams
you think america gives 2 shits about such laws lol?
Easton Turner
Except it's not a meme. They developed this shit in the 1980s, look up Brilliant Pebbles.
Hollywood just is soft disclosure for shit like always.
Samuel Stewart
If such capabilities exist it would definitely be amazing to see in action. Basically if any norkie aggression happened the entire border could be bombarded nearly simultaneously and there'd be no obvious signs of what was coming.
Not calling these WMD seems like a technicality, the destruction would be immense.
Kevin Harris
a rod and ring will strike
Thomas Cruz
Because you're fucking dumb. A leaf made that shit up and admitted to it. Prophecies are all made-up horseshit. Kys.
Brandon Young
Ivan you are correct bunch of COD fags being ignorant in this thread.
Alexander Hernandez
Tungsten rod satellite are for dumb asses .. real warmongering pedofiend faggot use "slingatron" you retarded space /x/ faggots
Nathan Harris
Wrong faggot, you cant nuclearize space.
Jackson Gutierrez
yes, by mass the energy released is about 10 times more than a similar amount of tnt
which isn't much if you consider you have to send it up into space
Jeremiah Young
Is that like when you spin your arm round and round before throwing a ball?
Jose Gray
And if Norks have armed one sub...
Samuel Fisher
The Oracle of Delphi was just a drugged up little girl, still changed the world.
Sometimes divinity works through retards and outcasts. Pic related
Eli Bell
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Kevin Ward
You mean like the thing Cobra Commander used to destroy London in GI Joe Retaliation?
It is a meme you know we can see every man launched Satellite in orbit right. You can't something like that from the world retard.
Justin Price
is there any ring shapes installations in iran or nk? centrefuges or test sites that are specifically ring shaped? govt buildings in a O shape? that would be spoopy
Gabriel Lewis
rip quebec,tabanac merdes
Jordan Green
b-but Brexit!
Xavier Rodriguez
It's exactly like that
Daniel Price
at a high enough orbit it would out perform nukes of the same mass.
John Fisher
Canadian civil war when?
Colton Bennett
Canadian civil war when
Leo Hughes
You a fucking genius bravo twink
Xavier Moore
Yes.
Carson Wright
>I know exactly what a god rod satellite would look like goy... I mean guize
Kevin Rogers
Our space shuttle dropped off a few. I'm sure SpaceX has already sent some classified payloads up. It's the same size/shape as a large satellite payload.
Alexander Adams
Oh shit, I find this hard to believe. The bongs couldn't even fucking cross the sea to wage war. And the leafs would just have Quebec instantly surrender. But the leafs wouldn't kill the bongs because then they would win. So they don't fight, but the bongs are incompetent, and would bow down and give blowjobs to the leaf muslims and minorities. What a crazy war. Obviously America annex's both nations and takes their oil in the end.
Austin Long
How the fuck do you aim that?
Austin Adams
>admitted to it.
Jason Williams
IIRC this entire treaty started with Soviets testing R-36orb or something
Dominic Nguyen
Wrong. Go kick it on some real space forums. Anyone that actually satellite watches and follows space programs can tell you they are not up there. Sorry to ruin your circlejerk user.
Jose Martinez
>what would it cost to launch a telephone pole made out of tungsten into space? Based on the density of tungsten and size estimate, and $/pound of space launch, around $20 million per rod.
A rod would be pretty easy to send up covertly.
Zachary Brooks
Cool.
I've got my popcorn ready.
Gavin Stewart
It would be a waste of time and effort to build something like that as an artillery piece. Probably used for launching materials into space this its going to be on a boat
Hunter White
Don't mind us, guys. Just a research vehicle orbiting the earth for years at a time. It's for science. No we can't tell you what we, the United States air force is researching.
Levi Fisher
>Not calling these WMD seems like a technicality
Like the kind of TECHNICALITY the jew lawyers regularly use to get around this shit?
Sebastian Adams
It's called pilpul
Easton Ward
>New
That shit's like 30 years old.
You should see the real new shit.
Robert Cooper
yes
Chase Turner
But dinosaur extinction by meteor wasn't a certainty until the 80's, right? When they found the crater? How could he infer that the dinosaurs were killed by something falling from space if we weren't even sure if it wasn't diseases or just the ice age proper that did it?
Hunter Butler
wew lad what did kek mean by this?
Christian Sanchez
Totally.
There's no way they used a satellite as a facade for a weapons platform.
Only covers chemical, biological, and conventional arms like nukes and high explosives. There's a loop hole for kenetic weapons like these rods or even rerouting meteors and the like. Space can still be 'legally' weaponized because at the time of that treaty they couldn't imagine the technology required for unconventional arms.
Kevin Taylor
2033 is where it ends. You have 16 years.
Gavin Davis
If you invade yourself, you win.
Noah Ward
No you can't just send up a massive satellite up like that covertly. All space launches are watched around the world. There are forums of dedicates space nreds tracking all satellites. There is more than enough open source information to know what each satellite does and then there is the engineering and physics rules that would make identifying such a weapon very easy. OP just does not know that kinetic is diplo-speak for military/war.
Luis Peterson
They like to use old shit that's around their expiration date, like that MOBA that they used on sand dunes in afghanistan.
Brody Hill
>I thought the Rod from God was just theoretical It's not just theoretical. The question has always been: "Has any government done this yet?"
