From: mvp@web1.calweb.com   
      
   In article <358f2299-603c-47a2-b617-b041e4004cb6@googlegroups.com>,   
     wrote:   
   >On Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 6:38:20 PM UTC-5, Mr Anderson wrote:   
   >> Ok, so I had a brake from science fiction related topics, but today a   
   thouhgt came to me: If   
   >>we have a two planets, in two solar systems, a few lightyears apart from   
   each other, and they   
   >have specialized relativistic speed spacecrafts serving as interstellar RKVs,   
   and they are   
   >precise enough to hit the enemy planet in enemy's system, could this mean a   
   MAD but on truly   
   >space scale?   
   >   
   >You don't need the super-super-superweapons.   
      
   Yeah... if you have relativistic speed spacecraft, nukes add nothing   
   significant to the destructive power of just plain dumb rocks.   
      
   Over about .87c, even antimatter becomes superfluous.   
      
   I've idly wondered how fast a medium asteroid would have to be going   
   for its Bragg peak to be in the core of the planet.   
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