On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 01:19:00PM -0400, DataPacRat wrote: >Is there a handy reference, either printed or online, for the stats >for a Project Thor system, in which rods (the size of crowbars or of >phone-poles) are dropped from orbit?
I don't believe there's a canonical reference, but the USAF standard concept was a 20-foot-long, 1-foot-diameter rod made of tungsten - so that's around 9.4 US tons - with an impact speed around M20 - implying around 47GJ energy release, around 12 tons of TNT. That ignores atmospheric ablation, of course. R _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
