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Question: What's the difference between a rocket that puts satellites into orbit and an ICBM?

Answer: Almost none whatsoever.

What a great idea. Declare war on the one private citizen on the whole planet that can park a GPS guided concrete telephone pole right in your back pocket using just the stuff he's got laying around in his garage in Boca Chica right now.

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can park a GPS guided concrete telephone pole right in your back pocket

Anyone reading this should know that ol BulletStopper is not being hyperbolic. There is already a weapons system nicknamed "Rods from God", which is essentially a satellite armed with several telephone pole-sized tungsten rods. When deployed, they can hit a target AS SMALL AS A DIME FROM FUCKING ORBIT. And the blast is enormous, IIRC, the energy from the blast is similar to one of the bombs we dropped on the Japs, but there's no radiation.

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Cinetic weapon...

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K

An orbiting tungsten rod is also a method of making an accompanying fission device into an X ray laser death beam. Other materials will lase, but solid tungsten is liable to make for a much longer duration effect since it won't immediately vaporize like zinc would.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excalibur

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Orbital weaponry is nightmare fuel. Familiar with Warhammer 40k? With the Space Marines?

They deploy "Exterminatus" upon condemned planets. This involves first bombarding the planet from orbit with "virus bombs", dirty bombs carrying a multitude of pathogens and corrosive substances. The virus called "Life Eater" causes rapid putrefaction after infection, leading to a horrific death via rapid decay and flesh-eating substances melting any organic things. An entire planet's surface worth of decaying gasses begin to fill the atmosphere, choking it and permeating the virus (which burns out rather quickly) into underground shelters and even the most fortified, well-protected, nuke-proof structures.

Gasses are allowed to build up to a certain point, where a ship in orbit now fires a single "lance" beam weapon at the planet; this "lance" is hot enough that it ignites a firestorm in the upper atmosphere, which quickly reacts with all of the gasses released from decay. The result is a planet that is reduced to ashes and glass, possibly seismically unstable and devoid of all life, eventually crumbling and shaking apart.

That's pretty over the top. But what isn't over the top, is launching an object into space that will orbit the planet several times and then come down and strike somewhere. Fucking dinosaur extinction type event, sky is blacked out with dust, thousands of miles around the impact completely flattened. This could actually happen accidentally with a variety of shit that's up in orbit right now, along with "space junk". Of course, a simiar outcome could be achieved with enough nuclear weapons. Just something more terrifying about the notion of being blasted from space to me.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221908/http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail404.html#Thor

https://infogalactic.com/info/Kinetic_bombardment

An interesting thing happens when objects reach or exceed Mach 10. Their kinetic energy becomes roughly equal to the same explosive energy contained by an equal mass of high explosives.

To try and put this into a context, the M829A3 depleted uranium rod penetrator fired from the 120mm L/44 M256A1 smoothbore gun on the M1 tank has a total mass of 22.3 kg (49 lb) and leaves the muzzle at a velocity of 1,555 m/s (5,100 ft/s). Not quite Mach 5. This still concentrates about 1,000,000 joules of kinetic energy onto an area about the size of a quarter. It's not a "death-ray", but it will do until the death-ray gets here.

During the second Iraq war, we were guiding 500lb practice bombs that were essentially a big hollow steel case filled with concrete, with a laser guidance package installed. Dropped from 15,000 ft AGL, they could be guided to a precise impact on the top of the turret of a tank parked right next to a school or hospital, penetrate all the way through, killing the crew and destroying the vehicle, and the people in the building right next to it would hear a sound like the worlds biggest hammer hitting the worlds biggest anvil.

And during it's landing approach the space shuttle would reach speeds in excess of Mach 25.

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No... It is called "The hammer of the gods"...

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Heyooo glad someone called this out. I've done it before other places and been scoffed at. If i was musk after i got the first falcon 9's running is do exactly that. Put about a dozen heat shielded concrete block payloads up as an insurance policy.

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Which is why guys like me will never be allowed access to orbital capable delivery systems anymore.

Because I just can't help but notice that there's an awful lot of fuckers walking around breathing my grandkid's air who couldn't help but be improved by having their wig stove in from about 60 miles up. Glad to hear that it's not just me.

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What do you think the (((US Government))) is paying (((elon musk))) to do? Starlink isn't about wifi, Tesla isn't about "green energy". They're about instituting control that's fully paid for by US tax payers.

The militarization aspect of starlink is very interesting. Never thought about it that specifically - I always knew it would be used for military aims but more in a data sense.

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Will never happen. Wanna know why ?? Because he is a globalist/ MIC shill Just political dog and pony brot und zircus kabuki theatre for the dumb useless eaters and breeders ...

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Can we stop pretending they aren't a rogue state now?

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Pedersky must be powdering his beak again.

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I like how they picked a picture of him where his toupee looks terrible!

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Isn't his StarLink thing helping them?

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Yeah but he had the gall to talk about charging them money for it. Can you believe the nerve of that guy, to not give the Ukrainian maf- government everything they want for free?

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Kikes hate being kiked by non-kikes as much as they hate being kiked by kikes.

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Not even close, in their religion a goy kikeing a kike is a capital offense.

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When they denied peace talks he should have pulled service till they paid an exorbitant amount to use it...

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Jews are known for terrorist tactics. This should be enough to cut off support of Ukraine.

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Please wait 3-5 weeks for your removal request to be fully processed. Until then, you will still be on some copies of the kill list. We are sorry for this inconvenience.

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What's all that gibberish?

Way to prove you're the good guys, Ukraine!

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Here's the transcription, it's hilarious. Classic jew ree'ing.

Илон Рив Маск /Iлон рiв Маск / Elon Reeve Musk Age of birth: 28.06.1971 Country: USA

(supposed crimes) Encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Participation in attempts to legalize Russia's annexation of Crimea.

14.10.2022 Elon Musk's company SpaceX refused to pay for Starlink satellite communications services on behalf of Ukraine, thus dealing a blow to the country's critical infrastructure. Elon Musk has also repeatedly contributed to Russian propaganda, for example, by publishing a "conflict resolution plan" in which he called for Crimea to be recognized as a Russian territory.

The Peacemaker Center (Mirotvorets) urges law enforcement authorities to consider this publication on the website as a statement that this particular individual has committed deliberate acts against the national security of Ukraine, peace, the safety of humanity and international law and order (lol), as well as other offenses.