US planned to blow up the Moon, report says

[Goker]

Spoiler: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a ***** in space

Gunnery Chief: This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kilotomb bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-***** in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's First Law?

First Recruit: Sir! A object in motion stays in motion, sir!

Gunnery Chief: No credit for partial answers, maggot!

First Recruit: Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!

Gunnery Chief: Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this husk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

Second Recruit: Sir, yes sir!

Oh, Mass Effect.

 

[G36E]

This is how we could detect a 1 MT nuclear detonation on the moon and the hypothesized effects of a nuclear detonation on the moon, plus the possibility of biological contamination on the moon due to microorganisms.

US PLANS TO DESTROY MOON UNVEILED

OMG US y u do dis

And you guys like to pretend to be smart.

 

[K-64]

And pretend this is a new revelation

 

[Mage246]

Figured as much, but it was more fun to play along.

 

[Tibertus]

Kirtland AFB, I spent a lot of time on that base. There's lots of cool **** there.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

And you guys like to pretend to be smart.

I think we're progressing onto the more-fun topic of "what would theoretically actually happen if somebody tried to blow the moon up".

 

[Dante.]

There's lots of cool **** there.

Please tell - that kind of stuff interests me.

 

[Tibertus]

Huge lasers and fusion reactors for instance. Everything I can tell you is right on wikipedia. For example the Airborne Laser I got to see in person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1

 

[Dante.]

Oh wow, I remember watching something on the YouTubes about that a while back.

 

[El Perro Finlandese]

 

[Lord Burgess1]

Spoiler

 

[Sir Saladin]

They never followed through with the blowing up the moon idea but there were a couple of very high altitude atom bomb blasts that everyone agrees now were very irresponsible and crazy. At least one blast was so high it was practically in space and they had hoped it could nullify the Van Allen Belt or something but it spread radiation all over the earth and knocked out the phone lines in Hawaii.

I don't remember the specifics and I'm not going to bother finding source material so as Jack Palance used to say: "Believe it...or nahhhhhhht." Or just look it up somewhere.

 

[Elenmmare]

Or a huge ass-crater. That impress the Russians more.

Really would bring the concept of 'mooning' to a new level

 

[Tralfaz]

Or a huge ass-crater. That impress the Russians more.

 

[Kobrag]

...
I'd only be impressed if they sculpted it like David.

 

[Apolllo]

Wow.

This may just be the stupidest idea ever.

This. 

I think this is going into my sig soon

 

[Mage246]

It's also not actually true. Or could you not be bothered to read the whole thread?

 

[Dante.]

Where does it state in the thread that it isn't true?

 

[Mage246]

This is how we could detect a 1 MT nuclear detonation on the moon and the hypothesized effects of a nuclear detonation on the moon, plus the possibility of biological contamination on the moon due to microorganisms.

US PLANS TO DESTROY MOON UNVEILED

OMG US y u do dis

And you guys like to pretend to be smart.

So lazy - it's only a 3 page thread.

 

[Dante.]

I thought you meant the whole thing was fake. They still planned to detonate on/near to the moon.