At least 13 people were injured, five critically in two separate mass shootings at homeless encampments in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday. The first shooting took place at East Lake Street and Interstate 35W around 11am local time.

  • Nightlight@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    Not a magnifying glass. Giant tungton rods. No explosive need. Just drop them from space. Kinetic energy does the rest

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      5 hours ago

      Weaponizing giant tungsten rods takes a lot more than ‘dropping’ them, you can’t just let go when they’re in orbit and expect them to hit targets because … they’re in orbit, they ain’t going anywhere without some delta V. Plus, if they’re massive dense objects, getting them up INTO orbit is gonna take a ton of rocket fuel. At that point you might as well just use an ICBM with an explosive payload because the destruction-to-cost ratio is way better.