Realization from a question on reddit: if you were on ISS you could fire regular crossbow bolts down out of orbit.
A decent commercially available hunting crossbow fires at 120 m/s, a typical targeted deorbit burn is usually only around 80-90 m/s. If you're with your crossbow on a spacewalk, like normal, and fire off the back of the space station, you will have created the smallest "rods from god".
If you fire forward, it goes into a higher orbit and you get in trouble.
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2024-09-11 18:30:07
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