On 29 Jun 2015 at 12:01, Craig Berry 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.

Roughly 3 km/sec.

> 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.

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