JS: Sorry. It’s a very old joke. Those things you call shooting stars are meteors. They are the debris left over or cast out by a moon or planet’s destruction.

SK: And that proves or proved what?

JS: That there are conditions where gravity, whatever it is, won’t hold a planet together. The secret then, is, and was, to build a device of some sort which can replicate one or more of those conditions…once you figured out what those conditions were.

SK: So, you are saying the people who lived on this planet before the Microsoft Wars knew the conditions that could destroy a planet?

JS: They knew one, which turned out to be more than enough.

SK: Why is that?

JS: The only people interested in funding the research into gravity were the people and entities looking to build a planet- cracker bomb. Had the job been easy, this planet wouldn’t be here today. We had a lot of psychopaths running around back then, and all of them claimed to be doing God’s work.

SK: God?

JS: Ask that question a bit later, okay?

SK: Okay, but what do psychopaths have to do with gravity and planet cracking?

JS: A massive amount of research proved that it was impractical to attempt to overpower gravity from the outside. One of the dominant theories about planet destruction was that it was most common when two planets collided or a large asteroid with a planet or a comet. This led to many theories about the how of the destruction.

One theory was that the gravity of the colliding object was ofthe exact same polarity as the object being impacted, which exponentially increased the force of the impact with the polarity of each object attempting to repel the other, long before contact. As the event horizon for the repel energy crossed over the portions of the planet or moon, the bonding or cohesive effect of gravity would be voided, and those portions of the planet or moon would break off. The first object to lose pieces of itself generally lost the engagement.

Another theory was that the gravity of the colliding object was of the exact opposite polarity. As the gravity of the two objects attempted to attract each other, they increased the speed of the impacting object. Likewise, when the event horizon crossed the solid portions of the planet or moon, the pull on the new side would be stronger than the pull from the other side, and portions would break off to join the other object.

SK: And this has what to do with my question?

JS: All of this led to a conversation about what gravity really was and a debate about whether the planet really had to have a north and south pole to maintain its gravity.

SK: You aren’t making any sense.

JS: From there, the great minds determined that gravity, at least in part, must be based on magnetic properties. They all knew how to defeat various magnetic devices and fields, and most believed that the iron core of the planet was largely magnetic, giving us our north and south poles.

SK: So?

JS: So they combined two of the biggest weaponry advancements of the day, a bunker-buster bomb and a nuke. The bunker-buster was designed to spin/chew/drill, or otherwise penetrate, all of the concrete, re-bar and steel plating protecting an underground bunker. It was extremely heavy and provided a hardened enclosure to protect its payload until it could drill no more and would detonate that payload.

SK: I’m not following this.

JS: Early bunker-busters never had to move through more than half a mile of earth before churning through thirty to sixty feet of concrete, steel and re-bar. Scientists took what they learned in the various desert wars and envisioned a design that would be able to drill through over 1,500 miles of dirt and rock to get halfway to the earth’s core or more.

SK: Are you trying to tell me that there is a hole somewhere on this planet that is 1,500 miles deep?

JS: Goodness, no. They could never test this design. It had to be built assuming it would work when needed.

SK: So you are telling me you can blow the planet up if you place a big enough pile of explosives at least 1,500 miles deep?

JS: Not explosives—the biggest nuke we had. You weren’t paying attention when we talked about magnets and gravity. Among the many things released when a nuke detonates is an invisible shock wave known as an EMP or electromagnetic pulse. Any electrical device that is powered on when the EMP passes by will be fried and, more importantly, unshielded magnets will get scrambled. We learned this in July of 1962 with the Starfish Prime explosion. A small, 1.4-megaton detonation knocked out street lights in Hawaii over 1,400 miles away.

Remember, I told you one of the main theories was that gravity, or some portion of it, was based on magnetic energy. One of the main theories of planet destruction was that two planets, or a large object and a planet, would mostly shred before impact because the like magnetic poles would be trying to either repel or attract each other, thus no longer holding the original objects together.

SK: I’m having trouble understanding what this has to do with anything.

JS: Have you ever seen two children fighting over a toy?

SK: Of course.

JS: Have you ever seen one of those children break the toy when someone in authority told them they had to share?

SK: Not often but yes.

JS: Those children never grow up. They simply become old enough to be called adults. Their philosophy in life never changes: “If they can’t have it, nobody can.”

SK: I’m still not following.

JS: Those are the people who had the money to fund the research. If they didn’t get their way and eventually manage to rule the world, there would be no world to rule.

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