de- prefix
1 (forming verbs and their derivatives) down; away : descend | deduct.
• completely : denude | derelict.
2 (added to verbs and their derivatives) denoting removal or reversal : deaerate | de-ice.
3 denoting formation from : deverbal.
ORIGIN from Latin de ‘off, from’ ; sense 2 via Old French des- from Latin dis-.
Just more BAD SCIENCE...
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Re: Just more BAD SCIENCE...
Exactly my same thoughts on the Star Wars Death Stars, those things are as big as moons but an Ion Engine attached to the surface of a 5 miles asteroid could efficiently devastate any Class M planet. Talking about suggestive thread titles...SandChigger wrote:
I think we've pointed this out before, but why waste all those munitions Why not, instead, just spend that time towing a sufficiently large asteroid into a collision course and letting it do all the work?
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