intersting theory....that would make more sense so that at least the area bombed can be occupied afterwards...

Originally posted by chrisd250
intersting theory....that would make more sense so that at least the area bombed can be occupied afterwards...

Exactly! Say for example if the USA wanted to bomb Iran...but didnt want to risk that radiation would kill its troops in Iraq. What do they do? Now they have the weapon to do it.

And the problem with that idea is that the physics of dropping stuff on people to kill them are very, very, very well understood.
We even managed to drop stuff on people horizontal (We call that bullet or arrow) to kill them.

The math:
F=m*a
E=m*v

It's highschool level physics. Everybody knows about them. There is nothing to test.

You know, I gotta say: That IS an interesting theory. NASA themselves already made the press conference saying that they found the water. Obviously the pretense on this one is that they want to analyze...

Regardless, this could very well be a whitewash. Who knows...

Originally posted by debunky

It's highschool level physics. Everybody knows about them. There is nothing to test.

You are right. We should just add this weapon to our war machine and spend the billions of dollars in developing it ... without ever testing it out.

That makes much more sense than doing a test run on the moon.

Are you serious?

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What a good day to join. I think you are spot on. i have heard of these rod weapons before and anything can do serious damage aslong as their is enough kinetic energy.

The question is, what type of trace is left behind?

I was thinking that it would be very funny if there was a big explosion like say 100 megaton or more. A blast that took out a good chunk of the moon. I can just see it now. Every one at NASA looking at each other asking the same question. "WHAT DID WE HIT!!!!". People keep saying there are alien bases on the moon. What if they hit an alien anti-matter reactor. Now that would be a blast.

im so excitedddddddddddddddddddddd

i personally like this theory of the rod from god (typically what i tell the girls in the bedroom :lol. something like that would be an incredible instrument and a huge advancement in weaponry, granted i know its already in the wrong hands... i just like to see new things

but, to break it down, 400 tons of material blown into space? i'm going to be watching.

Originally posted by Phage

It was created by an object which weighed 300,000 tons and was moving at 28,000 miles per hour. The LCROSS impactor weighs 2 tons and will be moving at 5,600 miles per hour. "Rods from God" would be about twenty feet long and a foot in diameter.. See the difference?

No. I believe I am familiar with the crater you are using as an example and to the best of my knowledge it is still unknown if the crater was the result of an impact or a near earth explosion of a meteor that broke up in the atmosphere because the mining company that purchased the rights to mine there never found the iron they were expecting.

On the point of the size of the Tungsten rods, yes they are 20 x 1 but that doesnt tell the whole story as Tungsten has a much higher density than you might think.



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I think your on to something thier and thiers a plan to attack Iran on Halloween. thats only a few weeks away they need thier test to make sure it works before they attack Iran, that Rod of God sounds pretty cool at least won't leave radiation.

Now that they have this can we get rid of all of the nukes now before one of these morons use one.

If this is the case then i worry about this. The way we do it now with bombs is something but imagine if ya shoot em from space and you can target with it. Now imagine every country with thier own base to shoot from. Thats going to be bad. Now imagine all that force of bombs slamming the earth if it went off how its going to effect the earth. I feel that bombs and stuff like that mess with the earths orbit. I feel that objects slamming the moon affects its pull on the earth. Not by a great bit but maybe a smudge. Those smudges could add up assuming my theory is right.


This thing with the moon impact aint really to discover water. They already know thiers ice or water on the moon. They want to see if its enough ice and water to put a station on the moon. If they could use the water from the moon. So they are going to see if its worth fooling with. How much water is there and can it be harvested. Could you imagine if they did find enough water? They will probably build stations and if they do. What are they going to do about the objects that slam the moon like meteors or space debris?


As far as the reason being to test a weapon. Yes i could agree with this since its not a bomb but will produce alot of kinetic energy plus supposidly its going to be traveling twice the speed of a bullet. Thats ALOT of force.

So maybe they are killing two birds with one stone? Doing the real mission and testing a weapon at the same time. They did call it a weapon i think on the msn site so.. hmmmmm

Anyways i hope when i wake up in the morning i aint awoken to the sound of moon rocks slamming my tin roof. lol Moon water anyone? lol

[edit on 9-10-2009 by gerg357]

Originally posted by Where2Hide2006
Think about it... they expect this 2 ton metal hunk to cause a 5 mile wide crater on the moon, and the moon has only a fraction of the gravitational pull of the earth.


[edit on 8-10-2009 by Where2Hide2006]

Wow. I never thought about that. Excellent point. Excellent post.

I have been saying for months that it makes no sense that we would "bomb" the moon to find out if there is water on the moon, when we somehow know the exact chemical makeup of all the other planets around us.

I mean, think about it....we know the atmosphere of Venus, Jupiter, and Mars from satellites. We know the chemical makeup of many of the stars around us. But we can't find out if there is water on the moon without bombing it? Nope....don't buy it.

Why not send a rover to the moon like the type we sent to Mars? It would have been a heck of a lot cheaper than sending one to Mars.

I think we could have easily found out if the moon had water on the poles wtihout bombing it.

I think your theory is the most plausible one I've heard so far. I will definitely read the links!!

Thanks.

Edit to add:

After reading those 3 links, I thought of something: Anybody ever see that video taken from the space shuttle, of what happened when that huge long tether broke free (during an experiement), and then all those glowing balls started gather around it, like they were checking it out?

What if the glowing balls were UFO's (they looked like they were under intelligent control of some kind), and they thought that the tether was one of those rods. I'm sure that they are keeping up with our weapons projects. Or....what if it was not a simple tether.....but a rod-like weapon that they were trying to test out, and then....

Well, anyway....those articles made me think of that NASA video.




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double-post, my bad

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