I thought we had in roleplay planetary shields due to the Phantom attack on Cambridge. Soo...if a shield can survive orbital bombardment, I'm sure it can survive ships/debris crashing into it...
In the original Gundam story concept, during the first weeks of the war between the Principality of Zeon (the guys in space colonies) and the Earth Federation involved something very much like this:
They'd gas the populations of enemy colonies and then drop them onto Earth. Eight mile long metal cylinders, shoved straight down. They only sent two or three, but by the time they were done, two or three major cities were wiped off the map and the climate of the entire planet was drastically affected.
I'd say it depends on how it falls though. A space colony with that size behind it shoved straight through the atmosphere would work well, but a much smaller battleship "drifting into the atmosphere gradually" would probably burn up a hell of a lot more before it went through and did any damage. Of course you have the argument that we have super indestructible alloys, but who can tell?
Such a battleship won't do that much damage. Not even by a long shot. I think it would leave a crater - yes - but most of it will burn up along the atmospheric entry. It may cause some damage though I think most planets have to be less crowded than the earth, meaning, that the wreck would probably hit some uninhabitat area or an ocean. Even if the ship won't burn up that much, it still hasn't the power (speed) of an meteorite.
Also the ship is build more "aerodynamic", it wouldn't push so much air with it...but - that's just a guess. And the ship is NOT massive, not as dense as some meteorites ...
Though it could damage a "smaller" area it wouldn't be a threat as big as a meteorite.
Simple! Someone invented a
Phase Interdimensional Shifting System - Overarching Field Facility.
Someone pushes a button somewhere and it works!
No more battleships crashing into the planets.
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you also have to remember that the crews would do EVERYTHING 9litrerally)in there power to stop said ship,retro thrusters reverse main drives decompressing foreward compartments of the atmposphere,,angles of attack aiming for barran places ectra jetasoneing the reactor9or its fuel)to prvent a fusion exposion it might upset a area for a time but i dont think it would end the world
' Wrote:Simple! Someone invented a
Phase Interdimensional Shifting System - Overarching Field Facility.
Someone pushes a button somewhere and it works!
No more battleships crashing into the planets.
I got it. Funny one.
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' Wrote:...Unless they were all, oh i dunno, DEAD.
*waves at Jimmy*
fleet and ships computer core overides to the propulsion systems dreadnaughts dont just go missing theres countless safeguards in ships their sizeyou dont allways need a crew and as most ships need the computer connected unless they would be willing to gut the ship to remove the comms and various other failsafes.....
As far as I can understand it, those ships are built for war of the hardest possible alloys, construction techniques and hardiest resources possible to find.
Yet..
We argueing a rock might hit the surface but a spaceship won't?
There are a few arguements here that are intersting. For onw thing if the battleship got the angle of re-entry right it could very simply wipe out a city just by flying over it. The change of air pressure of something moving that quickly and displacing that much air is immense.
What I think would make more sense is surface-space guns. Place one every 20 odd kilometers and try break up the really big bits into smaller bits.
O.. And to people arguing mass isn't as relevant:
Mass x speed = momentum.
Its the momentum that creates the impact. Would you rather get hit by a cyclist going at 60 kms/h or a bus? What will have a greater impact.
Space hitting planet - bad.... However. Who can say how good terraforming is to get it back in shape again hmmmmmmmmmm?
O.. And "spaceship game" ololol