Nuke dampers is a reason not to use nukes when you want to get into damaging ecosystems, planetary economies and so on.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Grimmund <grimmund@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 06:50:22PM -0500, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply! Currently the dimensions aren't quite what you
>> have listed...the Mjolnir-A is 69.37m long by 7m in diameter, while
>> the Mjolnir-B is 38.6m long by 3.5m in diameter.
>
> Yes, those are fine and covered by "arbitrarily larger".  So about
> 50 000 tonnes for Mjolnir-A and 7000 tonnes for Mjolnir-B if made from
> solid tungsten.


That seems kinda damn expensive for slugs.

Is there some particular reason to not use nuclear weapons at that size?


Tim-  Any significant difference for just using scrap iron?  Maybe
with a little DU or tungsten cap?

Dan



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