On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:29:52 -0500, Doktor DynaSoar
<targeting@OMCL.mil> wrote in alt.fan.art-bell:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:45:38 GMT, "Rick Sobie"
<ricksobie@spamnotshaw.ca> wrote:

} 
} "Doktor DynaSoar" <targeting@OMCL.mil> wrote in message
} news:0mvn30t7ma8371m00bi0u0as1bhmm34nh9@4ax.com...
} > 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.

5 miles of rock and 5 miles of titanium would still require something
else that was 99% the mass of the moon.

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