Stop bombing the frikkin' moon for Christ sake!

You just have to bomb something, huh!

LUNATICS!!

Originally posted by debunky
The math:
F=m*a
E=m*v

F=ma
FEma

I would imagine it's cheaper to drop a house sized metal block from space than it is to engineer nukes, safeguard them until use, and properly deploy them... as well as clean up afterward.

Nobody here seems to have heard of conservation of energy. The only way to get energy out equivalent to a thousand tons of explosive it to put the equivalent energy in. And a rocket is not a particularly efficient way of converting into kinetic energy. So, no free superweapons.

Kinetic penetrators are already widely used in tank warfare (they're made of depleted uranium for all the obvious reasons). A larger version might be useful for attacking deeply buried or hardened bunkers, but doesn't have many other applications.

Interesting theory, but why would the test so public.

You guys have it all wrong....the rod isn't some HUGE rod that's dropped from space...yes, it is a metal rod made from tungstin (if I remember what I have read correctly), but it isn't enormous...It's actually rather small in size, and is ment as a tactical weapon for removing "individual targets" while reducing the amount of collateral damage that so commonly occurs during the detonation of conventional munitions.

The weapon is also dropped from a "defense satellite", and is called the "Finger of God"...sorry if I'm coming off as being pushy, this being my first post and everything...

Yea,that is right. They already knew there is water on the moon before that bombing. Sooo,even if it wasnt to test "the rod from god" it still wasnt just to find something they already knew existed.

Originally posted by Chevalerous
Stop bombing the frikkin' moon for Christ sake!

You just have to bomb something, huh!

LUNATICS!!

During the Apollo Missions we had Bendix manufacture explosive charges to use in space and the Astronauts placed the bombs around the moons surface and set up some mortaring equipment. After they lifted off the explosives were set off.

We've bombed the crap out of the moon more than once. Were they using the Bendix explosives back then for any scientific purpose? Kinda. We wanted to have bombs capable of working in space to use against other countries. Turns out the company that makes brake pads for cars makes some good space bombs too!

I wonder when we'll bomb the moon again? Somebody should run a betting website so the world could put money down on when America will bomb the moon next.

An Australian manufactured one of the Lunar Surface Dust experiments which the Apollo missions put on the moon. NASA recorded data from the equipment onto reels and to this day, nobody ever looked at the reels to see if that experiment discovered water in the dust. You can google the story. They are saying now there is no equipment to even reveal whats on the reels of data.

Maybe if they looked at those reels they could have avoided Bombing the moon. Nahh....americans are more of a blow it up country aren't we? Read something.......nahhh C-4 dat chet!