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Originally Posted by Brain  I just finished reading 'At All Costs' and there was a line in there about not wanting to let a stray 95-ton missile hit an inhabited planet at 50% light speed. Ouch. |
Ouch indeed.
If I am doing my math correctly, that would do about 1.3 x 10^21 joules of damage. This is about the same as a 310 gigaton nuclear warhead, or 118 earthquakes that were 9.5 on the Richter scale.