Imagine how much damage a lump of metal might do if dropped onto a target from a great height. Now imagine the metal is tungsten — one of the heaviest rare metals — and it’s dropped from space, miles above the surface of the earth. Impacting at many times the speed of sound, the kinetic energy released by such a weapon would be immense; more than enough to destroy multiple types of ground targets.  That’s the theory behind the
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