reply to post by seagull
Just for clarity, launching a nuke into the moon was once considered:
www.space.com...
But never done of course.
[edit on 10/10/09 by Chadwickus]
Since when did a exploding a bomb become like dropping a washing machine?
Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment Office. They literally fall out of the sky, in all shapes and sizes, from specks of comet dust to full-blown asteroids, traveling up to a hundred thousand mph.