Re: Earth-grazing asteroids as a military resource

On 2025-03-06 04:06, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 6/03/2025 1:45 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-03-06 03:05, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 6/03/2025 8:28 am, Dave Platt wrote:

In article <vq8jtq$299g5$1@dont-email.me>,
Bill Sloman  <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

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Do you really expect that any nation can do such a thing, and not have it
detected and traced back to the nation in question?  Outer space is
a lot more "visible" than something like the Manhattan Project was.

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But there is a lot of it, and most of the action would be happening a long way away from the earth - more than 93 million miles, on average.

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Russell's teapot :-p  :-)

 Not exactly. My claim was simply that observation would be difficult - not impossible - in the same way that it isn't impossible to intercept an intercontinetal ballasitc missile in mid-flight, but that the practical difficulties mean that nobody is trying to do it.
 Reagan's "Star Wars" proposal pretended that it was practical.

The thing is, it is impossible to prove that there are no objects out there in an intercept orbit with earth.
If you find one, you have proved it exists, but you can not prove the negative.
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Cheers, Carlos.