when Gandalf said "Fly! You Fools!" This is what he meant

Hobbit rockets never leave the ground. They use pipe-weed as fuel and, by T plus 60 of any launch, the engineers are all giggling on the launch pad eating funions as a quick post-elevenses snack.

"I mean it's not rocket science, guys." - Boromir on using a catapult to launch the ring into Mt. Doom

one does not simply ICBM into Mordor.

Also. we can easily create temperatures far exiding mount Doom's lava.

This is more of an orbital nuclear defense question since Mordor has a pretty in depth strategy against this sort of threat. Frodo probably didn’t consider this option because of the Pan-Middle Earth nuclear deescalation agreement of the second age, sub section 2, page five, which if violated could have big international downstream effects.

Legit question. Can the ring influence targeting computers over long distances? Or modern LLMs?

Counterpoint.

What if they buried it, like real deep, like 50m+ deep.

It was at the bottom of a river for 2500 years, it’s honestly more effective than taking the ring right into enemy land.

Because Elrond cut the the budget of Revendell NASA to spend more money on some project to make elves self-deport.

Question, if I have an unbreakable ring, what cool things could an engineer do with that?

I mean, it all looks so simple.

And my Δv!

B'cause XOR!!!!

This is what I was waiting for. You know the theory of the eagles and Tom bombadil having the power to save everyone and not using it? What if the reason they didn't is because they can't. As in when they enter mordor they lose their power. Whereas the hobbits were removed from the magical doings of the world and therefore somewhat immune. Even galaxriel was temtpted by the ring. Bobmbadil probably only has power in his forest and the eagles only showed up after sauron's defeat but the eagles were on the spot right quick. Meaning they had to be close by. Which means they probably intended to be there and were waiting for wards to drop so they could help. Maybe.

https://youtu.be/p1-ExbgKUUI

There was a gif or a video montage of Boromir trying to catapult the ring to Mordor. Im on the move and cant search properly. But would be ideal for this discussion.

Edit: as per rule of the universe, found it after posting.

What's your equation to enter the cave?

it's gravity's rainbow not gravity's bilbo

Well for one, if they missed then they would basically be express shipping the ring back to Sauron...

What in the heck is that graph? Abundance as a function of time?? What? But the data looks a lot more like some kind of EMR spectrum?