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Nuke the Moon
« on: July 25, 2014, 11:12:08 PM »
Remember that old joke proposal by Frank J. Flemming to nuke the moon?

Apparently, we actually seriously considered it at one point in the 1950s:

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As far back as 1949, Chicago’s Armour Research Institute (known as the IIT Research Institute today) had studied the effects of nuclear explosions on the environment and atmosphere. In 1958, the program was approached by the United States Air Force and asked to determine the hypothetical consequences of a nuclear explosion on the Moon. Sensing that national morale was low after the Soviets launched Sputnik, the U.S. government coined a plan: they’d nuke the Moon, causing an explosion so big that it’d be visible from Earth. They hoped the explosion would not only boost the confidence and approval of Americans, but serve as a show of power to the Soviets.

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Re: Nuke the Moon
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2014, 07:57:57 AM »
US version of "hold my beer and watch this."
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Re: Nuke the Moon
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2014, 11:09:16 AM »
What the *&&^&* did the moon ever do to us that leaves it deserving of being NUKED? [tinfoil]
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Re: Nuke the Moon
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2014, 11:13:09 AM »
'Druther we nuke 2013 YP139.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_YP139

Just for practice.  Hell, if we can plunk a comet with an 800 lb copper slug, we can throw a nuke out there to zap a .4km asteroid.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/04/deep.impact/index.html
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Re: Nuke the Moon
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2014, 11:17:02 AM »
Let that be a warning to them uppity Loonies!

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Re: Nuke the Moon
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2014, 09:38:19 AM »
I have to admit, as a means of improving morale, blowing *expletive deleted*it up can be extremely effective . . .
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Re: Nuke the Moon
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2014, 10:40:33 AM »
Can we set it off with 240,000 miles of detcord?
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Re: Nuke the Moon
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2014, 10:44:28 AM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on July 28, 2014, 10:40:33 AM
Can we set it off with 240,000 miles of detcord?

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