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Sonny Howell
Coalton, WV · 2 months ago

the moons gravity what morons

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Inkswich
Lexington, KY · 2 months ago

Assuming it was fired from the largest and most powerful railgun of 15kg at 7km/s and lost 2.38km/s to escape lunar gravity, accelerating by 9.8m/s^2 due to earths gravity, it would strike the earth at 20km/s and provided it didn’t burn up and it was still aerodynamic enough to not loose too much energy to drag and arrived with all of its original mass, it would generate the equivalent of 1434 pounds of TNT.

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Benjamin Phillips
Eugene, OR · 2 months ago

You guys do realize that the earth rotates, right? So anything you are aiming at won't be where you fired your projectile at.

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AAron
Oviedo, FL · 3 days ago

isnt that the weapon in GI JOE retaliation

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Guy Mitchell
Windermere, FL · 2 months ago

there is a point between the earth and moon where the pull of gravity from each is identical. if a non explosive missile can be launched from the moon to reach that point in space, and pass it, the missile will fall to earth accelerating as it nears. The energy it would release upon impact would be a function of its mass and speed.

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David Ard
Springfield, PA · 2 months ago

massive rail gun and small impact crater never go together. fake video. And at a certain point.... you just make a tungsten bullet. no tungsten core

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Ian Richardi
Harrisonburg, VA · 2 months ago

the thing we already have nukes in space that split into like 14 nukes add that to middle of tungsten core with bunker buster capacity and heat shields goes about 600 feet underground hit let's say san andreas fault you could cause massive earthquakes or set off volcanos

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John Finney
Windsor Locks, CT · 2 months ago

you can guarantee a nickel tungsten type of material that maintained its integrity to impact would create a far bigger hole than that considering a rail pushes something a mache 4+

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pax
2 months ago

this is why it wouldn't be shot from the Moon. it would be shot from the last layer of our atmosphere where the satellites sit

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RuffCutz
2 months ago

Jesus Christ, that’s a terrifying idea

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Victory or Death
Berthoud, CO · 2 months ago

Would be a much larger impact than a tiny crater....