Ranting to /dev/null

How to go after Iran

We need...

Rods from God.

20-foot long tungsten telephone poles launched from orbit.

All the fun of nuclear weaponry but none of the unpleasantness. And it'll take out hardened, underground targets too. Coordinate a series of strikes and you can probably burrow as deep as you want. Furthermore, as with nuclear weapons "almost" does indeed count, so pinpoint accuracy, a difficult goal from 100,000 feet, wouldn't be strictly necessary.

For those who doubt the ability of such a weapon system to actually destroy targets, we're talking about a highly accelerated dart of solid tungsten (so chosen for its high tolerence of heat) slamming into the ground in speeds measured in kilometers-per-second. This is, potentially, billions of joules.

Cool.

Posted by ryan at January 31, 2006 09:20 PM | TrackBack