Dr. Merkwurdichliebe
Kiwiminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda
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Double or nothing motherfuckers!!
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EDIT TO CORRECT: Thought Flynt/Wu said "thousands" of nuclear bombs. He actually said hundreds, so everything below has been corrected -- and, even reduced by an order of magnitude, the numbers are still ludicrous.
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Notice that the calculations provided by the Ph.D. in astrophysics involve nothing more than very simple algebra.
And calculating the kinetic energy of an object of a certain mass moving at a certain speed is a common homework assignment in high school physics.
As an engineer,™ Flynt/Wu would have been expected to be able to do the math on this problem as a college freshman.
Finally, the idea that a "rock" that was "dropped" from the moon would on impact release the energy of "hundreds" of nuclear weapons is something that our hypothetical high school physics student would laugh at and disprove in a matter of minutes.
One of the standard nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal is the B83, with a yield of 1.2 megatons. I'll be charitable and use 200 of them, the minimum number specified by engineer Flynt/Wu.
So, how large of a moon rock would be needed to generate a yield of 240 megatons?
Depending on its composition, speed and angle of entry, it would need to be a spherical "rock" with a diameter of around 175 meters (575 feet -- a sphere with the diameter of a 50-story skyscraper), with a volume of at least 2,800,000 cubic meters (99 million cubic feet) and a weight of at least 7,280,000,000 kilograms (16 billion pounds).
I hope that Flynt/Wu will reveal how this "rock" is going to be launched from the moon and guided to its target on earth. With our current technology, it would require tens of thousands of Saturn V rockets.
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