Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

ravenlynne wrote:
> Mac Breck wrote:
>> Jack Bohn wrote:
>>> Mac Breck wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jack Bohn wrote:
>>>>> And, of course, the final question for making a movie of it: what
>>>>> can we, as concerned citizens, do about dwarf star material on
>>>>> the Moon?
>>>> Not a thing.
>>> Well, besides giving the scientist a Space Shuttle full of nukes
>>> to go to the Moon,
>>
>> Since when can a Space Shuttle make it to the moon?  And if it could
>> make it there, how would it land?
>>
>>
>>> plant them in a fissure, play a little "red
>>> wire/green wire," and make a big 'xplosion.  That's always worth
>>> a try.
>>
>> Maybe a kamikaze run?
>>
>
> Well, they'd just fly by, open the hatch and drop the
> 'splosives...duh...;-)

Shuttles aren't designed to do bombing runs (no bombsights, no
atmosphere for bomb or rocket fins to guide against, etc.), let alone
upside down and dropped/pushed out of the roof.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"The Dresden Files" (2007)
Harry Dresden: [re. Bianca] What is it about bad girls?  They lie,
cheat, won't suck your blood even when you beg them to, and for some
reason, no matter how badly they treat us, we still can't walk away.