copperhead Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Apparently, sceintists wanted to nuke the moon back in the 1950's, to see what would happen. http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/nuke_moon_000514.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FBody Addict Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 lets nuke the hell out of iraq, just to see what would happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black ITR Guy Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 thats fucked up. but think about it, its the cold war when two countries were standing nose to nose flexing their muscles and waiting to see who would flench first. doing something like that would have really made a statement, and mabey its not sounding like the best idea now but back then it was better than making kids practice hiding under their desks in case we were nuked first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Originally posted by copperhead: Apparently, sceintists wanted to nuke the moon back in the 1950's, to see what would happen. Nuke as in Destroy? Catastrophic tidal waves, meteor showers of apocalyptic proportions, cataclysmic climate shifts, no more steady calendar, earth would spin off orbit and into the sun, dark nights. Lobbing an old 1950's weapon of relatively low yield at the moon? Not much, a glass coated hole, and a circular smoothy spot, and radiation...like the moon doesn't have any of that. It would be a visible detonation, if done in the dark side of the waxing or waning moon, but the crater would not be visible or necessarily distinguishable from any other on the moon. Why? No air, A bombs are augmented by the forces of displaced and super heated air. If you don't have that, you have a seismic concussion, a flash of light and head, and short lived shock wave. The plume though, that would be something to behold. Its not at all impossible for debris to reach escape velocity. Rockets weren't reliable enough though, not wortht he risk of it filing and falling back to earth. Carl Segan, one of the great minds of our time, R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FBody Addict Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 not to mention that large glassy spot being large in diameter would create a really shiny spot on the moon, as well as a bright spot on the earth wherever it happened to reflect the light, but we would probably not really notice the bright spot unless it created a parabolic shape just right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Originally posted by Slow As Hell 86 T/A: not to mention that large glassy spot being large in diameter would create a really shiny spot on the moon, as well as a bright spot on the earth wherever it happened to reflect the light, but we would probably not really notice the bright spot unless it created a parabolic shape just rightIt would probbly be less then a mile wide, and not smooth and even, so not with the nekkit eye. It'd be like a frozen lake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FBody Addict Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 and the dust kicked up by the shock wave would probably settle on it but uncovered, you would probably be able to see it with a 3" or larger reflecting teloscope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 That really wasn't a bad idea at the time and I don't see why it would be now. Who really cares if a bomb hits the moon. Rocks in space traveling at very very high speeds have hit and continue to hit the moon. Cosmic radiation far worse than the alpha, beta, and gamma rays that are produced by a bombs hit the moon all the time as well. Our earths magnetic field stops most of the bad radiation from hitting us. We wouldn't want to destroy the moon though that would be bad for us. Evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Total Sign Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 I bet John Kerry is in support of this idea! Wow, just to see what would happen? Why not put a gun to your head and pull the trigger, to see what would happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 is that supposed to be satire? Originally posted by Tractor: Rocks in space traveling at very very high speeds have hit and continue to hit the moon. the fewer the better We'd like to keep the moon at the same distance and speed its at right now, dont wanna upset it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Lee Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 i thought the moon was made of cheese. Why would they want to destroy a bunch of cheese? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraGlue Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Nice breakdown on the physics, Eric and Evan. graemlins/thumb.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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