SWM wrote:
Our own moon has over 100,000 impact craters and earth has some as well. Who says the kinetic strikes have to be an atomic weapon, just a very large solid object like a massive astroid is going to mess the planet up. Sort of like the badly made move derived from Starship Trooper.
Nobody has said anything about the kinetic strikes being an atomic weapon. In fact, the original post was specifically making a distinction between atomic strikes and kinetic strikes.[/quote]
With a high enough velocity the result is much the same. In fact with a kinetic weapon, the damage is potentially greater than a nuclear weapon. but the nuclear is useable at a slower range and can irradiate the surrounding area. Six of one and half a dozen of the other depending on what you're using them for.
