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Spoliers.............................No staging on the missiles?

posted 9 years ago by JSouth1
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Spoliers......................

As the nuclear missiles are approaching the asteroid...they seem to make the WHOLE distance of over 2 hours of flight...burning their engines !! There appears to be NO staging of the missiles and they arrive to the asteroid INTACT !!

A NOVICE interest in science KNOWS that large missiles do NOT stay intact to their target. They have several 'stages", which "fall away" as their fuel is consumed and they burn out. By the time they made it to the asteroid...there would ONLY be the warhead section--since all of the acceleration needed would have already been done before....

Among the MANY errors of tihs film...this is a BIG one...and I am QUITE surprised the writers would have though it through a bit more....

[–] ryan-anderson 9 years ago

As the nuclear missiles are approaching the asteroid...they seem to make the WHOLE distance of over 2 hours of flight...burning their engines !! There appears to be NO staging of the missiles and they arrive to the asteroid INTACT !!

Yeah, I thought of that once myself. Perhaps because Hercules was originally intended to intercept a meteor, it's "rocket" stage was designed to last longer....maybe even the whole way (for the purposes of course correction perhaps?).

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