From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 6/21/16 1:33 AM, Patrick Janecke wrote:   
   > The beauty of an orbital impactor is its simplicity.  A large chunk of   
   tungsten bar-stock is about as simple as it gets.  Massive destruction and no   
   moving parts.   
   >   
   > Once you decide to get fancy, you may as well air-burst some nukes.   
   >   
      
      
   	But it's very expensive and, if it's JUST tungsten bar-stock with no   
   guidance (which then needs some level of protection to function on the   
   way down, which makes it a LOT more expensive) then it has sucky   
   precision. Plus, if it's just tungsten bar stock, it can't decelerate,   
   which means you need some kind of station up in orbit to decelerate it   
   to re-entry speed and put it on-target.   
      
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