On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Russell McMahon wrote: > > If you don't care how much stuff gets thrown around then there are > quicker ways to get stuff from down there to up here. > And just doing it may produce the desired result. > Say you hit say 20 of these simultaneously (or 10, or 3 or even 1) and > redistributed their contents over the immediate area - even quite > locally. Regardless of actual effect, how would that influence future > paths?. If a few jetliners can change the world so much, what can a > few cracked pebblebeds do? They're called terrorists because they like to terrorize - the best way to terrorize people is to cause the biggest shock effect possible. The "best" way to do this is to kill a bunch of people quickly, I'm sad to say. Blowing up a (moving) train, crashing an airplane, bringing down a building, very dramatic, traumatic, and terrorizing. Trying to blow 20 pounds of uranium pebbles out of a 100 feet deep hole covered in [a lot of] very heavy reinforced cover-material would take more than a few pounds of explosives, and probably wouldn't kill very many people for "shock" value. Now I don't claim to know how a terrorist thinks, but wouldn't you think they'd go for something easier? -- Martin K. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist