Re: Earth-grazing asteroids as a military resource

On 12/03/2025 2:07 am, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-03-11 14:18, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 11/03/2025 11:43 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-03-10 15:28, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 10/03/2025 11:52 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-03-06 17:44, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 6/03/2025 10:54 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:

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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Obviously I refer to objects of a dangerous size.

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And that means that you don't know what you are talking about.
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There's a whole distribution of space junk up there. The bigger they are, the more damage they can do when they hit the surface of the earth.
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The historical record - in terms of meteor craters big enough to have survived for a few million years - demonstrates that big earth grazing asteroids are pretty rare. I imagine that somebody has worked out what the distribution is, at least roughly.

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There is evidence of dangerous "objects" hitting the earth and causing destruction in the "historic" age.
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Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
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We were just fortunate that it hit a non populated area, otherwise it could have destroyed a city. The explosion was between 3 and 50 megatons.

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You really are a twit. If you had bothered to read all the way through my post, you would have found exactly the same url (so it shows up twice in your post, which is a touch comical).

 I did read it, later, and I decided to leave my text, as my reasoning is different than you

I wouldn't call what you've posted "reasoning". More like scrabbling for stuff to post that might look relevant.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney