Counter Orbital Mechanics

[RainOfSteel]

Originally posted by Bhoins:
Actually it wouldn't have to be that thick. After all if a layer were dense enough it would work like chaff and you couldn't see past it.

But if it's too thick, the sun's energy gets blocked oout.

 

[RainOfSteel]

Hmmm. Originally I had thought the COPF idea was, well, bunk.

But with the way the discussion is going, I'm not so sure anymore.

 

[mike wightman]

Have you read Fallen Dragon by Peter Hamilton?

There's a planet that protects itself by putting so much junk in orbit that an invader would have to take a lot of casualties just to enter orbit.

There's a bit more to it than that but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't read it

 

[RainOfSteel]

Sigg Oddra,

After reading Mr. Hamilton’s, I think it was, The Reality Dysfunction, the first 85% of which I thought was excellent, only to reach the point were the cool cutting-edge hard-SF (except for minimal psi, which I was willing to live with) book was ruined by the introduction of the summoning (via magic) of demonic possessor beings who operated by what appeared to be more magic, and me tossing the book across the room, I’ve avoided his stuff.

That’s my roundabout way of saying: I haven’t read Fallen Dragon.

 

[mike wightman]

It's a stand alone book, set in a completely different universe.