Heinlein did something similar in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress . . . the lunar rebels kept hitting the mountain until, as Mike put it, "It's not there anymore."TazManiac wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:37 amThere is a element I've been looking to put into a story where a weapons strike is successful against its target, bu the events that drew the wrath of elimination down upon them was seen as so grievous that the instigator of the strike just kept on sending bombs to the same spot, relentlessly.
The hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper, the dirt never gets a chance to cool off.
I'm still working on 'what happens then...'.
--FreeFlier