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Everything in low earth orbit has 30MJ/kg worth of kinetic energy. TNT has 4.6MJ/kg worth of chemical energy. A rule of thumb: when the kinetic energy of things goes above the chemical energy of high explosives, you can assume that nothing survives.


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