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'ETs Attacked Me With Meteorites' - Bosnian Man
Five meteorites have fallen on Radivoje Lajic's house in the past six months. There is only one possible conclusion. Lajic says:
Belgrade University scientists have confirmed that all of the rocks presented to them by Lajic are meteorites.
The first meteorite smashed into his house last November. Since that time, four more have hit his home.
Lajic has since installed a steel-girder reinforced roof on his home in Gornja Lamovite.
Although this story is somewhat hard to believe, it is as good a reason as any to discuss orbital kinetic energy weapons.
The first time I read about kinetic energy weapons in orbit was (I believe) in Footfall, the 1985 novel by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven.
Greg Bear made use of a similar technology in his 2007 novel Quantico:
Via Ananova.
"I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate."
"I am being targeted by aliens. They are playing games with me. I don't know why they are doing this."
"You take a big iron bar. Give it a rudimentary sensor, and a steerable vane for guidance. Put bundles of them in orbit. To use it, call it down from orbit, aimed at the area you're working on...
(Read more about flying crowbars)
"Lancets - essentially guided steel telephone poles tipped with a chemical warhead. They're designed to fall from low Earth orbit and punch a hole in the ground..."
(Read more about Bear's orbital weapon lancet)
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