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Set in the Cold War, the story is based on the use of (relatively inexpensive) information-based "intelligent" systems to overcome an enemy's numerical advantage. The orbital kinetic bombardment system is used first to destroy the Soviet tank armies that have invaded Europe and then to take out Soviet ICBM silos prior to a nuclear strike.
Due to limited maneuverability, Rods from God platforms will also need to ride higher orbits: to avoid ground based anti-satellite missiles, to avoid orbital denial conditions (such as the growing volume of space junk in lower orbits), and to hide from less sophisticated trackers. This increases the flight time of the projectiles.
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (/ p ʊər ˈ n ɛ l /; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. [1]
The Mote in God's Eye (originally titled Motelight) [2] is set in Pournelle's CoDominium universe, where a union of the United States and the Soviet Union produced a world government and a number of colonies in other star systems, followed by nuclear war on Earth and the rise of the First Empire based on the planet Sparta several centuries before the events of the novel.
William Scott, coauthor of the techno-novel Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III and former Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine believes that with X-37B, the Air Force might test weapon delivery from a space plane in low Earth orbit. He mentions Rods from God as a possible scenario. [30]
I think I made contact with outer space.’” Years later, Hawn spoke with an astrophysicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He told her he'd been researching alien encounters for ...
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The new Apple TV+ show 'Drops of God,' loosely based on the hit manga series, provides another window into the world and vocabulary of wine. What you can learn about wine by watching new manga ...