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Impact Sizes: The Centaur impact will excavate greater than 350 metric tons of lunar material and create a crater 66 feet (20 m) in diameter to a depth of 13 feet (4 m). The Shepherding Spacecraft impact will excavate an estimated 150 metric tons and with a crater 46 feet (14 m) in diameter to a depth of 6 feet (2 m).
BTW, even NASA uses the term "bomb the Moon"...
Originally posted by Chovy
reply to post by DoomsdayRex
so what's your opinion smart guy? are you okay with nasa launching a nuke at the moon? does that sound ethical to you?
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
...BTW, even NASA uses the term "bomb the Moon" which would imply the use of some explosives, and that's what I thought this was all about...
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Well, not sure it was NASA, but when Scientific American did it in their headline, it was a sad day for journalism, and a "win" for hyperbole.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
BTW, I did not say anything about "aliens"...if you do "due dilligence" you will find my statements were about the possibility of debris falling to Earth from the Moon from this impact.
Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
The article you cited did make the claim NASA could be bombing alien bases on the moon. As did others I addressed in my first post.
it may cause a war with an alien race on the moon
it may cause a war with an alien race on the moon
it may cause a war with an alien race on the moon
it may cause a war with an alien race on the moon
it may cause a war with an alien race on the moon
Originally posted by Aeons
I hate the stupid laws that people in the 60s put on the floating rocks of the Universe.
Idiots.
Violate away. Those laws should not be there. The ethics of floating space debris and barren rocks.
BTW that member who claimed that a water ballon could be called a bomb has got to be kidding.... Talk about "due diligence"....
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
BTW that member who claimed that a water ballon could be called a bomb has got to be kidding.... Talk about "due diligence"....