Hi all,
People were discussing inter-ship, etc. collisions some weeks back. I just
saw in a newspaper (Sunday Telegraph 24/4/94), a short article about
space-based kinetic weapons which included the following:
"Such a bomb could be an interstellar spacecraft the size of a cross-Channel
ferry weighing 1,500 tons, which, to travel the vast distances between the
stars, had been accelerated to 600 million miles per hour, a speed close to
that of light. ... , if such a craft hit a planet at such a speed it would
produce a blast 150 times more violent than a full-scale nuclear war and
extinguish all life forms."
Of course, you've got to get the ship up to that speed...
Even, "...two InterCity trains which are both travelling at 125mph and whose
combined weight is 800 tons. The impact would cause an explosion equal to
1.3 tons of TNT..."
Hope this interests someone.
Andy
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