POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

[HellHound]

well, that's why you drop a telephone pole sized mass of solid tungsten from orbit.

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[PhantOS]

yeah kinetic bombardment would work because you're dropping it from orbit, so you only have to account for the speed at which the satelite is traveling when its dropped. on the moon there's like 2 opposing forces at once plus it would take a couple days for the projectile to actually reach the planet

[Ipquarx]

kinetic bombardment from orbit is a real, scary thing. small rocks dropping from the moon is not. Anything smaller than a car will burn up, and at worst, explode in the atmosphere.

[LeisureSuit912]

Who would you support if the 2020 race was Annoying Orange vs Brianna Wu?

a shotgun

[HellHound]

global warming is a myth created by liberals to lower the price of seawter

[Tezuni 2.0]

KB is just a cold war era fantasy that is both prohibitively expensive, and equally inaccurate for all practical purposes.

[Ipquarx]

KB is just a cold war era fantasy that is both prohibitively expensive, and equally inaccurate for all practical purposes.

Most definitely not, the size projectiles needed to be equivalent to a nuclear weapon aren't prohibitively big to get into space, and once you're actually in space the projectiles go fast enough that you can get very close with basic targeting techniques (Let's assume a country has the resources to read a weather map to see the wind speed)

[HellHound]

it's several thousand dollars per pound of cargo to get something into orbit. a kinetic bombardment system would cost a lot, and would be nearly useless once all of the ammunition for it is used up

[Tezuni 2.0]

Most definitely not, the size projectiles needed to be equivalent to a nuclear weapon aren't prohibitively big to get into space, and once you're actually in space the projectiles go fast enough that you can get very close with basic targeting techniques (Let's assume a country has the resources to read a weather map to see the wind speed)

ya you underestimate the cost of getting mass into orbit

[beachbum111111]

Isn't there a treaty where the us and Russia agreed to never weaponize stuff in orbit?

[Maxwell.]

yeeeah but that's probably not gonna hold up for much longer

also it's between most countries, including every superpower

[Nonnel]

It's the Outer Space Treaty and most countries signed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

[Tayasaurus]

it's several thousand dollars per pound of cargo to get something into orbit. a kinetic bombardment system would cost a lot, and would be nearly useless once all of the ammunition for it is used up

Because we haven't put effort into maintaining an on-going project in space before *cough* International Space Station *cough*

[HellHound]

but it would still cost over a million dollars to reload it. the international space station's upkeep is significantly lower.

[Foxscotch]

It's the Outer Space Treaty and most countries signed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

"However, the Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit and thus some highly destructive attack strategies such as kinetic bombardment are still potentially allowable."