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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] I believe that several SF stories dealing with invasions from space ("Footfall" comes to mind) postulate the use of orbital bombardment using kinetic-energy weapons. These weapons could be made very small, with limited guidance systems, since their trip is one-way, targeted from orbit, and dropped on numerous installations and infrasructure points. I beleive project "Thor" considered this use, with merely crowbar-sized projectiles. Fairly small mass + Lots of KI = lots of damage, with no attendant radioactivity. Of course, the elephant-aliens in Footfall also dropped a good-sized meteor or comet in the Indian Ocean, the effects of which were global and wiped out a lot of potential defenders. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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