[EdnaMode]

The moon of Yavin? Or Endor?

[pa_dweller]

Bad, bad, bad idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves

[HighSierra5]

That would be cool. But I settled for a fantastic view of Elon’s Starlink sattelite parade the other morning. At first I thought it was a meteor but then quickly realized what it was. Impressive.

[DoodleBob]

As far-fetched as both these ideas seem, the author says that nearly 25 years of collecting government documents has taught him that we shouldn’t rule out the possibility of current or future nutty space schemes. Who knows how the military might be involved in upcoming launches.

I think going to Mars without field-testing long-term activities on the Moon (where you can still get AAA to come out and fill your tire if need be) is an idea that is as dumb as dust.

[dayglored]

> ... explode the bomb on the moon’s “terminator” — the area between the part of the surface that’s illuminated by the sun and the part that’s dark...

Good lord, are people still really that stupid, or is this satire?

There IS NO DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (Sorry, Pink Floyd).

Any given location on the moon is iluminated by the sun for half the (Lunar) month and in the dark for the other half of the month.

What I suspect the author MEANT was that the would explode the bomb on the “limb”, the edge of the moon’s disk, as viewed from earth. If that were done at a time when the limb was in darkness, the glowing explosion would possibly be visible from Earth. Maybe. Or maybe not.

[Redwood71]

They weren’t trying to blow the moon up. The military aspect is aided by investigation of space environment, detection of nuclear device testing, and capability of weapons in space.

The areas discussed in some detail are optical lunar studies, seismic observations, lunar surface and magnetic fields, plasma and magnetic field effects, and organic matter on the moon. Probably part of the fore runner of the star wars project.

If you’re curious:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon02.pdf

rwood

[ConservaTeen]

Very bad idea! Didn't they know the moon I helps tides. I have to get that scientist who is well known (Greta Thunberg) to get her views on it. CNN thinks she's an edpert.😀

[kaehurowing]

Trump’s fault

[rlmorel]

Didn’t Gru steal the moon in “Despicable Me”?

Sigh. We have to keep Trump from blowing up hurricanes with nuclear weapons, now we have to be concerned about the moon!

[Wilhelm Tell]

That would have been just great. Pollute the moon with radioactive fallout. The eventual inhabiting of the moon will be hard enough without that.

[rey]

Didn’t Chairface Chipendale try that?

[Dr. Sivana]

I wonder if they got Jax-Ur to help?

[Fiji Hill]

Don’t touch the moon.
I need it for loving.
Don’t touch the stars.
I need them, too.
All you frantic scientists,
Find somewhere else to go.
—Cornell Blakely, 1958

[Dogbert41]

From the wonderful movie Oblivion with Tom Cruise

[\/\/ayne]

[a fool in paradise]

India HAS sent a bomb to the moon.

[rfp1234]

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/emersonlakepalmer/lendyourlovetometonight.html

[Wuli]

No matter how nutty was the U.S. Air Force idea, the title is expresses a lie and is dumb and incendiary.

The nutty idea of exploding a device on the moon would not have “blown up the moon”.

As far as the space colony idea is concerned, it was just about a century ahead of it’s time. I think by 2050 we will have a research “station” on the moon, and like Antarctic so will Russia, Europe, China and others.

[moovova]

Big Wave surfers hit hardest.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

“We will blow up the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they’re easy, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD!” — apologies to JFK.