Posted by Shawn Kelly on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/feasibility-tp1503275p1503278.html

I thought a lot about that and came to the conclusion that it would indeed
be within alien capability to use asteroids and also to do so in a way that
we would not be significantly effective in stopping. They could pound us
so that we simply tolerated their incursions - to stave of their wrath, or
until we stopped being able to fight effectively.

In 'Conflict' The aliens had a reusable device that was being used to move
and alter trajectories of spacecraft, even doing so against the vehicles
control systems fighting back. A bunch of these pushing 20-30 meter
diameter nickel-iron asteroids (slugs) into 6 month Earth-impact
trajectories could do all the damage needed. Of course more of them and
larger versions of these little ROVs could do even more damage but it seems
very possible with just two of the ones like those seen in 'Conflict'.
**see below for supporting data.

With just a little bit of orbital mechanics and a few months patience and
perseverance, a single ROV could easily send dozens of slugs to the Earth
arriving in insurmountable waves. A second ROV would be there to provide
only precision targeting course corrections to some of them.

One ROV out in the asteroid belt sends slugs one by one into an Earth
intercept at varying speeds and trajectories so that they arrive in waves
perhaps 10 within an hour, every few weeks, way too many for interceptors
to even shoot at them all. The second ROV sits about 1G to 2G miles out
(5-10 times lunar orbit) rendezvous and precisely adjusts the courses of
incoming slugs to target specific sites. Launch facilities, SHADO HQ, nuke
facilities and stuff are the first targets to be hit on earth, to ensure
that effective new defense cannot be mounted. Moonbase would also of
course be given special attention with a bunch of slugs addressed just to
it, probably the very first batch. Those slugs that can't or don't get
their course correction would still impact untargeted. Each of these
metallic asteroid slugs would pack the punch of a tactical nuke and be very
difficult to track and destroy compared to a stony asteroid which at 20-30
meters in size would not be dense or strong enough and would break up in
the atmosphere.

All of the UFO demonstrated technology wouldn't be able to cope with the
incoming material provided by just two ROVs, we'd be done for if there were
10 of them or if they were bigger. Even if there was only one ROV, Earth
could still be randomly hammered by nuke-force metallic slugs. Slugs could
even be put on varying trajectories so that 100 of them fell all at once
after a year of ROV work, though only a few could be precisely targeted
this way.

**Some numbers & stuff. Circular Earth orbital velocity is in the ballpark
of 7,000 Miles per hour (high orbit) to 17,000 MPH for (low orbit), the
Shuttle's speed is about 17K MPH. The Lunar speed around the earth is only
2300 MPH while the return orbit from the Moon for a vehicle is over 25K MPH
and highly elliptical. Asteroids would be coming in probably at around 20K
or more and at a near perpendicular trajectory to any circular earth orbit.
The ROV in Conflict went from somewhere probably in Low Earth Orbit with
the space-junk at 17K MPH and made it around the planet as needed and
adjusted it's motion to over 25K going a different, possibly perpendicular
direction, intercepted another vehicle, then reversed direction after
entering the atmosphere and came back out into orbit. That ROV has *lots*
of power in order to do so, plenty enough to give us a nice steel rain.

Also: Today's real technology says that if we find anything really headed
our way; we're boned if we have less than 2 years to deflect it, the bigger
it is the more time we would need. That's why astronomers are hunting
these things so much and for the ones they find, predicting their orbits
for hundreds of years into the future. There are thousands of them out
there and the only thing we have going for us is that space is *real* big.

S (TMCM) D:-)

>I personally think the idea of bombarding the earth into submission isn't
>feasible, to put it politely. The military cold openly destroy such
>asteroids with current technology (?).
>
>Besides, the aliens have such reduced resources, it would take more
>resources to implement such a plan than they have. Besides, what about
>'storage' of the 'raw' materials, on limited alien resources?