robkelk Wrote:I suggest you go re read it, KJ. because with certain exceptions (Norad Spacecom) that assumption is wrong. In fact, when they are talking about their target selection, the criteria is "Maximum instructive Schrecalect with minimum actual damage"KJ Wrote:I recall a Heinlein story that ended up with using mass drivers on the moon to destroy, among any capacity of Earth's major forces to get stuff into cislunar space, more or less every major Earth landmark.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - the first Heinlein and the first adult SF I ever read.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children