know, it's never been built. I'm quite confident it hasn't, but it's a concept that's been discussed because what it would do, it would fire these tungsten rods to earth so that the impact would be that of a nuclear weapon, but without the radiation. So when would you use something like that? They're bunker busters. They could get deep into the earth without causing the radiation that is associated with nuclear weapons. It has been at various times billed as a rapid response, but what scientists have shown is we could do much the same thing quicker and faster from earth with land-based missile systems. So some of this gee-whiz stuff is the function of people whose jobs it is to sit around and think of gee-whiz stuff. And much of that in the military, that's your job. It's not necessarily to build it and use it, but to what could I possibly do? We joke about somebody has the job of trying to invent unobtainium or impossibilium, and rods from God was one of those gee-whiz crazy ideas (37/57)
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