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Shooting a meteor with a stinger missle?

posted 15 years ago by Asteri-Atypical
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OK. If this show hadn't proved its mentality yet, it sure did with that one!

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[–] TCMFan13 12 years ago

A meteor is typically made of nickel and iron so it's unlikely, particularly at the speed of desent.

[–] Asteri-Atypical 12 years ago

Precisely my point. Not only is it moving WAY too fast to hit with such a device (usually meteors come down anywhere between mach 25 to 50 or more whereas a stinger peaks around mach 1.5, with a limited range), it wouldn't be likely to blow up a solid chunk of metal ore, anyway, even if you hit it. Not to mention what would happen to the shrapnel.

It's about as realistic as shooting down an ICBM with a trebuchet.

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[–] poserpro 12 years ago

Still kind of cool.

[–] Asteri-Atypical 11 years ago

Still kind of cool.

So would freezing it by throwing a snowball at it (by hand) but it doesn't mean it's not stupid

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