"Rick Sobie" <ricksobie@spamnotshaw.ca> wrote in message
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"Doktor DynaSoar" <targeting@OMCL.mil> wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:54:42 GMT, "Rick Sobie"
<ricksobie@spamnotshaw.ca> wrote:
If it were 5 miles thick, it would have to be so dense that it massed
the equivalent of 1086 mile radius of solid rock. It would have to be
over 200 times denser than basalt. There is nothing like that.

If there were, and you built a sphere out of it, it would collapse.

4 or 5 miles of dirt and rock, and several miles of solid titanium
alloy. 

This would be a god opportunity for some genius to do the math.

How thick would the titanium need to be, to withstand an impact,
which resulted in a crater 2,200 km in diameter, and an average of
10km deep, keeping in mind that 4 or 5 iles of that depth, would be
the dirt layer, and the reaminder, titanium alloy, resulting in an
internal dent of about 1 mile.

There is no titanium. The whole structure is supported by a Level 16 (or
above?) force field. 



































































Just to make 100% sure, here's the spoiler: IT'S A JOKE.