The crazy plan to explode a nuclear bomb on the Moon
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230505-the-crazy-plan-to-explode-a-nuclear-bomb-on-the-moon
The crazy plan to explode a nuclear bomb on the Moon
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230505-the-crazy-plan-to-explode-a-nuclear-bomb-on-the-moon
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[Austin Powers](https://clip.cafe/austin-powers-the-spy-who-shagged-me-1999/i-cant-believe-were-gonna-pay-madman/)
The President : Jiminy Jumpin’ Jesus, I can’t believe we’re gonna pay that madman. I got nukes out the ying-yang. Just let me launch one, for God’s sake.
Commander Gilmour : Sir. Are you suggesting that we blow up the moon?
The President : Would you miss it?
[looks around the table]
The President : Would you miss it?
I immediately thought of [this sketch from Mr. Show.](https://youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA)
The Moon was the best place possible for nuclear weapons – safer as there was no atmosphere, and the moon is already constantly bombarded by highly energetic particles, making radioactive fallout barely distinguishable from the moons normal environment. Calling the moon’s surface ‘pristine’ is an odd way of describing a cratered rock.
It was just too expensive – so naturally we nuked Earth, causing far more damage to well, everything. The author of this article is an idiot.
The crazy plan **from 1958**… Of course the title would leave that part out.
Would this be something we could see with the naked eye in the day I wonder?
Just the smallest flash maybe? Or if it happened on the edge (from our perspective) could we see the cloud?
So. A plan, by a small number of people, had a crazy idea, probably just an intellectual thought, by a small group of people went nowhere? Okay 👌
Until the moon chunks start hitting earth OR the moon inhabitant come out