phred14 t1_it5bunp wrote
Reply to comment by MasterFubar in China looked at putting a monitoring satellite in retrograde geostationary orbit via the moon by OkOrdinary5299
So if I'm not mistaken, according to what you've just said, the toy soldiers are lined up so precisely that one bullet taking them all out isn't unreasonable. I know, it's not really that bad, if only because the bullet would be deflected by the first collision and you said 10cm. But the cloud of retrograde ball-bearings sounds like it might really be devastating.
Captain_Hadock t1_it6k1vu wrote
To make an american metaphor, it's like driving thousands of motorbikes the wrong way on a nascar race course, without allowing the cars nor the bikes to deviate from their race trajectory.
Sure, you probably won't hit all the cars on the first lap, but by the end of the day....
andygates2323 t1_it6pa94 wrote
No, all the things in that analogy are big and close together. It's not even mosquitos in a stadium.
Captain_Hadock t1_it6zeyn wrote
They also don't generate new debris upon impact that will keep crossing the race course forever, so...
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