Re: Hitting planets with comets

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Kyle Klingler wrote:

> I've been told that in the Japanese animation series Gundam (sp) movie
> Char's Counterattack Char purchases an asteroid from someone (Earth, I
> believe) and then turns around and launches it at Earth.  

Yup... they do this A LOT in Gundam. They chuck down big rocks, big
rocks 
with bases on 'em and even (uninhabited) O'Neill stations. Sydney and 
Tibet are among the casualties, and I think Ireland in ZZ. But they
never 
chuck rocks at spacebases.

> I wish I had
> seen, just to see if enough mechs could stop it or did they have to
use a
> "special" bomb. 

Actually, they used psychic powers to stop it... But they did try to 
capture it before it crossed the point-of-no-return and failing that, 
blowing it up from inside.

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