[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 occurred in Turkey on February 6, causing serious loss of life and property.
In the face of such tragic casualties, a video circulated on social media recently declared that "this earthquake is not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster", and vowed to have an interview with Serdar Hussein Yildirim, director of the Turkish Space Agency. Speak as "proof".
Could Turkey Earthquake Really Be Man-Made?
The Russian "Viewpoint" reported on the 25th that according to the video circulated on social media, Yildirim said in an interview: "A 10-meter-long metal rod made of hard alloy material is placed on the satellite. Released from space when needed. These metal rods themselves have no explosives, and only rely on kinetic energy to hit the ground at high speed and penetrate 5 kilometers underground, causing an earthquake of magnitude 7-8. Everything around the impact site is destroyed. This is a kind of space Weapons that cannot be found, cannot be defended, and cannot protect themselves." The report said that although there was no other evidence, the Hollywood movie "Special Forces 2: Strike Back" used computer stunts to create this space-based weapon. The horrific scene of destroying and triggering a super earthquake brought a bit of sensational effect to the rumor.
Judging from the content of Yildirim's interview, he is likely to be introducing the rumored "God's Rod" space-based weapon developed by the United States.
However, the report stated that relevant verifications showed that the Turkish official's speech was said in 2021 before the earthquake.
The Turkish Space Agency also refuted the rumor that someone was deliberately taking it out of context.
According to Russian media, it is not that major military powers do not want to manufacture seismic weapons, but that they "really cannot do it."
Because when falling from space at high speed, the friction of the atmosphere will slow down the falling speed and generate high temperature to burn most objects.
From the process of returning to the ground from the satellite and rocket debris, it can be found that they will be broken and burned, and the debris that finally reaches the ground has the same impact force as the crashed plane.
It is said that as early as the 1940s, various countries were considering the idea of making earthquake bombs. At that time, the idea was to let the bomb fall from a high altitude, use the acceleration of gravity to achieve supersonic speed, and detonate after penetrating the surface at a depth of 10-30 meters.
Relevant calculations show that such an explosion can create a certain level of artificial earthquake, "enough to destroy nearby underground fortifications."
The ultimate version of this type of bomb is the American 20-ton T-12 Cloudmaker, one of the heaviest conventional aerial bombs in history.
It is carried by a specialized heavy bomber, can accelerate to supersonic speed after being dropped from a high altitude, and can penetrate the ground of 20-30 meters or concrete structures of 3-8 meters.
But whether it was the "cloud maker" of the year or the later earth-penetrating nuclear bomb, they can only penetrate into the very shallow surface of the earth, and the destructive effect mainly depends on the explosive equivalent, not the kinetic energy falling from the sky.
According to the report, ballistic missiles are essentially weapons that fly in outer space and return to Earth, with warheads as heavy as the "rod of God".
In fact, the latter has about the same energy as a ballistic missile warhead after passing through the atmosphere.
ICBM warheads can re-enter the atmosphere at a top speed of Mach 15, but they still cannot destroy targets with kinetic energy alone.
Humans have not found any material that can penetrate hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters of formation after returning to the ground at super high speed.
In addition, the control and precise positioning of this space-based weapon cannot be solved. If the alloy rod dropped from space wants to accurately hit the target, it requires complex control systems, propulsion, targeting systems and communication systems.
The Soviet Union discovered during the Cold War that such space-based weapons were indeed unfeasible.
In addition, military powers are equipped with space surveillance systems, and large objects like the "Stand of God" are completely within the monitoring range, so they are unlikely to be "undetectable".
The report concluded that humans currently do not have the technology to create weapons that can cause large-scale earthquakes.
"Thank goodness, really not".
(Liu Yupeng)
(Source: Global Times)