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by ploynog 869 days ago
Wouldn't that be some form of kinetic orbital bombardment. Not sure that you want to have this in your backyard.
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I'm sure I want it. Unfortunately my house is too close to the center of my backyard.

My neighbours are too close too. Any stray parts would cut into the proceeds of ticket sales to the bunker at the center where you can watch live streams of the parcels hitting on top of you.

It wouldn't. Small objects, like satellites, decelerate to terminal velocity. The impact of one of those would be the same as if they fell from an aeroplane.
Why not use this energy for mining? What is the terminal velocity anyhow?