Moon go boom

[Schieschkopf]

I just had the hugest breakthrough!

Let’s use the ideas from my previous post to dig around sizeable chunks of the moon, and then (for fun of course) we can launch them off using controlled detonations and rocket engines to intersect with other planet’s we don’t like! The Moon be damned! I want to knock Mercury into the sun like a billiard ball into a pool pocket.

And of course, since I thought it up, I get to launch the first few pieces of sizeable rock. Shoot, I think I’ll just file a patent on it, pick a popular business model, and file for an IPO… I can see the cover of Wallstreet now
“Nukes? Armies? He’s got the MOON!”

MmmmMmmm…

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Geez, I can’t believe I waded through this entire thread and nobody’s even mentioned Bruce Willis.

[JoAnneSchmitz]

I got one word for you: mice.

-JoAnne

[Schieschkopf]

I don’t want anyone here to say:

Dude! Let’s get Steve Buscemi and Bruce Willis to drill a hole into the middle of the moon and drop a nuke, just like they did in that one movie!

Use your noodle folks, not your torrid experiences of watching bad movies!

I know someone can figure out what the required velocity for a goat or some other type of animal is to actually knock the moon out of orbit.

So, come on! Let’s blow up the moon!

[Gollum]

Like the soccer mums idea. But i suggest we get them to hurl abuse at the moon till it cries and runs home. As plausible as it would be to have bruce willis blow up the moon i dont want him to be accorded any of the fame and glory and power that will surely be awarded to he/she that succeeds in destroying the eye in the sky. Mice is good. Giant, mutant, rock eating mice that can survive the harsh moon type environment. If we make them efficient enough they can convert the moon rock into energy which can be piped back to earth and used to power our robotic death squads. YAY! assuming we make mice with reactors as efficient at the sun, but able to process elements with a lower potential energy we should get 48.32 Trillion tonnes of waste and 6.032E28 Megawatts of energy. More than enough energy to expand Intracorps interests extensivly. We shall protect all our buildings from those pesky government forces via giant tesla coils, and electrify the ocean. If you wish to swim or boat or look at the ocean, you will have to pay.

Muahahaha…

Fish will just have to make that step onto land pretty damn quick. At least for a little while there will be toasty fish and fish for all.

tehehehe.

What? You are reading this! egad, you know too much. Guards-n sieze them.

Resistance is amusing.

[Montfort]

I think this is a neat thread, so I’m bumping it. While doing some searches on Swedish geography today, I stumbled upon this site, which details the plans the Soviets came up with in '58 to explode a nuclear bomb on the moon. Why? To prove they went there:

Like all the other projects the lunar surface nuclear explosion proposal came from the circle of Academicians. Its originator was the famous Soviet nuclear physicist Jakov Borisovich Seldovich. The primary aim of the project was to prove to the whole world that a Soviet spacecraft had really reached the surface of the Moon. Seldovich had the following in mid: The spacecraft would in itself be quite small and its flight to the moon would not be possible to observe for any astronomer on earth. Even if filled with conventional explosives, its drop on to the lunar surface would not be possible to observe from Earth. But, if a nuclear device was exploded on the Moon’s surface, the whole world would be able to observe the event and nobody would be able to pose the question: has a Soviet spacecraft really reached the Moon? It was assumed that a nuclear explosion on the Moon would be accompanied by such a light flash that it would easily be observable by all observatories on Earth.

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