On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> The thing is, at a relatively low speed in space-weaponry terms (can't find
> it right now, and don't have time to derive it, sorry) the kinetic energy of
> a given mass equals the explosive yield of that amount of TNT. As energy
> increases with the square of velocity, for most plausible impacting space
> weapons, there's little point in making them explode; the energy of the
> explosion would be more or less a hiccup on top of the kinetic energy.

Oh, yeah.  But if we're close enough for dumb projectile weapons, that
suggests to me that we're not going fast enough.

Dan

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