Re: DIY SF

On Mon, 28 May 2007 08:42:46 -0400, Sea Wasp wrote:

> mimus wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:51:40 -0700, lal_truckee wrote:
>> 
>>>mimus wrote:
>>>
>>>>This seems to be turning into just another lousy disaster flick, when
>>>>what I was really wanting to stress was the giant steelies.
>>>
>>>Hey now! It wasn't me who set the conditions that 400m (440yd) diameter

>>>nickel-iron (AKA "steel") objects "fell from outer space onto the 
>>>Earth," which of course implies impacting with a minimum of earth
escape 
>>>velocity.
>> 
>> Well . . . the idea was, really, that people would suddenly just have
to
>> deal (mentally) with these big steel balls around the place . . . .
>> 
>> But suddenly people are going all ballistic on me.
> 
> 	Is it ballistic if we assume the falls are straight in?

Sure.

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