I've always wanted to be the one sitting at the sharp end of a 322 foot tall pile of explosives, but alas I'm likely too old for that now.
I'm reasonably certain that the reason for the urgency is to place a weapons cache on the moon so the next wave can defend our turf against Chinese incursions on it. We planted our flag, and therefore claim, to the moon 57 years ago, but now it looks like the time is coming to have to defend it.
Fun fact - rifles will fire in the vacuum of space because each bullet is a self-contained rocket engine. It has it's own fuel, and it's own oxidizer, so that it's not dependent on external oxygen to fire successfully. The "capsule" end of the bullet, when launched, will punch through anything a space suit has to offer... at which point the target is going to have a very bad, but mercifully short, end of their day. Aiming will have to be re-calibrated, because there is less gravity to affect the trajectory of the bullet in flight.
Yeah, folks have studied on that.
Stay tuned.
Humanity, carrying war to the stars since 1969! You don't really think all those Mars lander "failures" were really accidents, do you?
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I'm reasonably certain that the reason for the urgency is to place a weapons cache on the moon so the next wave can defend our turf against Chinese incursions on it. We planted our flag, and therefore claim, to the moon 57 years ago, but now it looks like the time is coming to have to defend it.
Fun fact - rifles will fire in the vacuum of space because each bullet is a self-contained rocket engine. It has it's own fuel, and it's own oxidizer, so that it's not dependent on external oxygen to fire successfully. The "capsule" end of the bullet, when launched, will punch through anything a space suit has to offer... at which point the target is going to have a very bad, but mercifully short, end of their day. Aiming will have to be re-calibrated, because there is less gravity to affect the trajectory of the bullet in flight.
Yeah, folks have studied on that.
Stay tuned.
Humanity, carrying war to the stars since 1969! You don't really think all those Mars lander "failures" were really accidents, do you?
.
“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake