Originally posted by SajeevJino
Revealed: ...

Tabloid media at it again.

How on earth could this in any way be "REVEALED" when all the details about this story have been known for years.
It even has its own wikipedia page, (started last year) that clearly states the Sagan angle was "revealed" back in 1999.

The article makes it seem as if the united states wanted to completely destroy the moon by repetitively saying "blow up the moon".

I wonder if intimidating the Russians was the true goal of the plan. Maybe they'd just discovered someone living there and felt the need to eliminate them. I don't know but it could be a decent science fiction movie anyway.

Strict

Originally posted by Strictsum
I wonder if intimidating the Russians was the true goal of the plan. Maybe they'd just discovered someone living there and felt the need to eliminate them. I don't know but it could be a decent science fiction movie anyway.

Strict

Thats what I've read. Look anyone with half a brain and the time to do research knows that something is on the moon, its just too obvious. I think the russian part was a ruse for those in the project without a need to know and those that did were crazy enough to think they could take out an advanced race with a firecracker. Its a good thing they didn't do it. That we know of.

I smell a fish.

Why would they need to do this? Obviously they were trying to kill the aliens who were telling the astronauts not to go near there. The fact that they didn't blow the moon up and that we've not gone back, proves beyond the shadow of a doubt the legitimacy of this claim. The Aliens won the moon war.

Are they preparing to retaliate though? Are they preparing to send moon rockets to earth, to annihilate the human species?

Thank god we have Richard Branson taking the wheel as we head back into space. Commander Branson will make sure we don't fly away with our space tails between our legs. not this time.

Moon people, who are they anyway? A bunch of space hippies, good for nothing greys. Nukes are too good for 'em.

So they hoped to create a flash on the moon with a nuke? I recall them trying that a few years ago and it was an absolute dud. Could barely even see a flicker with a telescope let alone the naked eye.

I thought the US was saying they were bombing the moon to "find water"

correct me if im wrong; but isnt the the moon the reason we have waves in the ocean? if we didnt have waves wouldnt water be stagnant? would we still have wind without the moon?

The Earth can't exist in it's current state, without our moon. We've known that for quite some time. I doubt the US ever even thought about blowing up the moon.

They didnt go through with the plan for it would have had one big backfire....an insignificant result. From a Lunar Distance away no one would have seen the flash. Russia would have laughed their way into a nuclear war.

lol.. an old coldwar era nuke would NOT 'blow up the moon"... I don't know why media reporters are saying that.. it would take 8000 megatons at LEAST to 'blow it up', and thats only after drilling down to the core, or close enough..

silly.. thank god for Sagan.

We couldn't "blow up the moon" if we wanted to.

Hell, we couldn't blow off a nice sized chunk of it. Nukes seem really really powerful, and they are in terms of what they can do to a small city. But look at the awesome damage done by all the underground test shots - wait - there wasn't any really awesome damage was there.

The energy required to "blow up" a planet ala Star Wars is roughly that required to place the planet's mass in orbit about itself. Go figure.