• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    271 year ago

    The problem I remember is that it is expensive to get the rod up there in the first place.

    Also every other nation would hate us and make jokes about the collective small penis of the US state.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      That’s why the eventual strategy would be to build them in space with minerals from the asteroid belt.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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        111 year ago

        That would involve building a factory in space. If we’re capable of doing that, creating a kinetic OWP with which to bombard the earth would be small ambition.

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      1 year ago

      Also the tungsten oxides produced in high velocity impacts are potentially worse than fallout.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Gotta mine them in space, but there’s still a whole host of other issues with the idea including aiming them, having enough stations to deploy them anywhere on the planet in a reasonable amount of time, and the other non-radioactive problems that result from throwing a fuckton of tungsten at terminal velocity into something.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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        81 year ago

        Yes. The United States of America is, itself a federated state that also represents the fifty states. It’s why we have a state department and a Secretary of State in the White House.

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          1 year ago

          I never said otherwise. Petition to call it the United States State from now on. Let’s also call the UK as the United State Kingdom State.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            Just remember, they answered your joke seriously agreeing with it. It’s always gonna be united states state along with atm machine and pin number for me.

          • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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            21 year ago

            I’m assuming USKS is willful absurdity. It would be the United Kingdom state, or state of the UK (not to be confused with a UK state of the union speech).

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              41 year ago

              No because each nation within the United Kingdom, in example Ireland, Scottland, England, and Wales is it’s own State and United they form the UK State so it’s the United State Kingdom State.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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        21 year ago

        It’s well within the character of the US federal government and the armed forces to go forward with an OWP platform program right now, even despite the risks and ethics concerns, sadly.