Science, but not as they planned it

A while ago in a game that never really started an idea was proposed for the use of low level orbit dropping of non explosive munitions as a kind of carpet bombing technique for insane amounts of destruction. The exact effects of this was thought to be pretty devastating, huge impact craters, massive damage to the local area, etc etc. But we didn't really know.

Now thanks to the sadly faulty parachutes (or battery that was meant to fire them at least) on the genesis project to collect solar wind particles we have a picture of exactly what an impact crater from 80 miles up (thats around 426,500 feet, fact fans) looks like and it's frankly pretty dull, even at an impact speed of around 193 mph

Baring in mind not only is this is a heat shielded object that was designed to come through atmosphere and that it weighed a not insignificant 420 lbs - thats nearly a 1/5th of a tonne the amount of effort required to get the damn thing up there and drop it, not to mention getting this *accurate* as you have around 80 seconds before the thing hits the ground and at that height even a small amount of drift is going to give you massive inaccuracies.

I suppose thats why old aircraft bombed at a generally more favourable 18,000 feet or thereabouts.