Re: psychoceramics: Archimedes Plutonium horning in on Abian

[nathanshumate @ juno.com (Alex N Shumate)]

>Oh, that's OK then.  For a minute I thought that this man was
>completely and utterly barking mad.  I sincerely hope no-one ever
>tries to dock the moon with the Earth, however `softly' they think
>they can do it...  Does anyone on the list know enough astrophysics to
>calculate what would happen if anyone tried dropping the moon from
>orbit?  I've done a `boe' calculation (below) of the kinetic energy
>transfer involved in a 1km/year impact, but I reckon there's a good
>chance it's wrong, and I'm not taking any other factors into account
>(like the fact that the blasted thing is going to reenter at about a
>bazillion miles an hour and kill everyone on the planet, no mistake).
>Perhaps this is how the dinosaurs died?

What -- the dinosaurs had their own nutcase who tried to land the moon?


Nathan
(sorry -- didn't mean to reproduce the entire digest yesterday)