you seem dazed and confused enough to be president. On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM Douglas Goncz A.A.S. M.E.T. 1990 via Nnagain wrote: > Hello Dr. David. > > > The gravity at the surface of the Moon is larger than might be expected > since the volume to radius ratio is as r squared, so that with a difference > of 100 times that is a factor of 100x in gravity at surface we can predict > that the rocks they'll be throwing at us we'll be falling up that is thrown > out of the gravity wall for 1/10 the trip roughly and falling down that is > falling into that gravity well for 9/10 of the trip causing an overall > Factor of enormous acceleration. Offhand I would say the process would > achieve 80% of escape velocity. > > The Australian science agency has a nice chart out for asteroid type > objects on their website. It summarizes the relationship between the many > many small rocks which are in our system and the very few large rocks which > accompany them as they move at various speeds knowing only statistical > information about how many rocks of which size and how fast they're moving > and what energy the net result is > > They quote figures of atta joules. So once given the upward that is > towards the Earth impetus a mere Boulder could do really significant damage > assuming that the transit time could be controlled carefully in their was > either accurate aiming or some type of midcourse correction to get the > target secured. > > Trying to find my way back on topic to Net neutrality. Maybe a moon base > could be set up with a transmitter powered by a small nuclear reactor > receiving signals from Earth and retransmitting them to make the > connections for data and voice. Compared to lofting a satellite having the > time to construct such an item on the surface of the Moon would be > advantageous the way it seems to me. I'm pretty sure that a satellite would > have to be put into place in orbit with its power supply and all that and > that's what starling does bloody bloody blah. > > By the way I'm running for president. > / / < GONCZ2028 > / > > > Cheers > Doug > > > > >> >> On Mon, Oct 7, 2024, 10:04 AM David Bray, PhD >> wrote: >> >> ... >> > >> > Meanwhile China probably will land humans on the moon within the next >> four >> > years of whomever is the next U.S. President. That may happen before the >> > U.S. returns to the Moon. Either way, a "base" on the Moon by 2035 >> (which >> > is PRC's goal) even if it's robots - or humans with the risk of loss of >> > life) raises some challenges in terms of SIGINT, GEOINT, and the general >> > ability to hurl rocks into Earth's gravity well.... > > > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > Nnagain mailing list > Nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain >