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Re:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics... by hdivider on Saturday March 12, 2022 @11:58AM (#30652730)
Extreme scifi-level scenario: could the Russians commandeer the ISS and use it as an impactor weapon on US or Allied soil? My guess not; super hard to do, and impact doesn't release that much energy anyway. Any space expert opinion?
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Re:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics... by spaetzleesser on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:21PM (#30652939)
That would probably have the worst cost/impact ratio of any weapon ever. They might as well build catapults that launch bricks of gold at the enemy.
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Re:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics... by gamegoblin on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:02PM (#30652769)
ISS has many components with different drag ratios and would break up unpredictably upon entering the atmosphere, making it impossible to aim reliably.

This is a big part of the difficulty in decommission planning for the ISS in general.

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Re:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics... by OrlandoHakim on Sunday March 13, 2022 @04:54AM (#30659355)
A more plausible scenario is Russia refusing to bring back American astronaught, Mark Vande Hei and leave him stranded on the ISS to find another way home - at least according to this article. [0]

[0] https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/03/russia-threate...

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Re:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics... by pvaldes on Sunday March 13, 2022 @10:22AM (#30661435)
Then, not one Russian astronaut would be allowed in a NASA project in a spatial scale of time, probably.
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Re:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics... by OrlandoHakim on Sunday March 13, 2022 @10:46AM (#30661657)
I suspect we are already way past that point no matter what.
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Re:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics... by spywaregorilla on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:01PM (#30652763)
Not really. If that were to happen we'd be at the point of nukes anyway.
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Re:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics... by GekkePrutser on Saturday March 12, 2022 @10:02PM (#30657485)
No, it would break up and just rain debris over a large area.

Also, why would they ever want to? They have far more precise and effective weapons.

It sounds like a good plot for a call of duty game though!

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