[TML] Space Traffic Control (was Re: War rules)

[Knapp]

Undoubtably, yes. But in this case I was responding to the question
>> about hundreds of thousands of cargo containers. Small enough to be
>> destroyed or reduced enough to burn up in re-entry.
>>
>> For asteroids, you'd need detect it early to have a hope of getting it
>> to miss.
>>
>
> BTW it was said that all the containers would be destroyed in a collision
> (yes, I think it is unlikely, sort of like the Exon Valdes was but we are
> talking about many more ships with better navigation systems (I hope)). The
> assumption here is that it was head on but nothing says it must be or that
> that was even likely.
>

This got me to thinking, I wonder what would happen is the exon valdes was
in space on an intercept vector with a planet and all that oil was freed at
one time? Better yet, a ship 100 times bigger.


-- 
Douglas E Knapp

1. Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand
men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss
on the people and a drain on the resources of the State.
The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces
of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad,
and men will drop down exhausted on the highways.
As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded
in their labor.

2. Hostile armies may face each other for years,
striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.
This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's
condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred
ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height
of inhumanity.