• @CanadaPlus
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      62 months ago

      Shit. So I should have gone with the “oversized hyperloop” idea and just said zero. My bad.

      • @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        122 months ago

        So I did some math, and I’m assuming we need about 1/3 of LEO velocity, it would take 707 SpaceX Starship launches to throw USS Abraham Lincoln to Kremlin.

        This is of course ignoring air resistance, other physics and common sense + we’re assuming spherical aircraft carrier

        • @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          72 months ago

          Okay this might get little bit too credible, but if we were to disassemble the aircraft carrier in 150t pieces and launch to low earth orbit, assemble it again there and then use 1 more starship to slow it’s velocity to deorbit and drop it to target, we would need little over 2100 starship launches. Little bit more if we cover the ship with heat tiles to protect during re-entry.

          Honestly this seems well worth it considering how much cooler it would be than the usual designs for kinetic orbital strike.

        • @CanadaPlus
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          2 months ago

          Did you get the 1/3 number somewhere? St. Petersburg is on the Baltic, and Moscow is only like 600 km away.

          I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I can’t stop.

          • @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            2 months ago

            Yeah I did some research and calculations, and pulled that number out of my ass

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            Based on this guys math which I trust as much as anything in this community, you’d need 9522km/h velocity, which is pretty damn close to 1/3 LEO velocity (28000km/h).

            This makes my ass scientifically proven