KOOL! Interesting note, can we do it without a nuc, and direct its impact into an unpopulated area?
At 10:47 AM 12/19/03 -0600, MARK BOSTICK wrote:
Paper: Herald Press
City: Saint Joseph, Michigan
Date: Thursday, October 30, 1958
By Rex Stanley
Written Especially for Central Press and This Newspaper
If an American or Russian space rocket hits the Moon with a nuclear warhead, the explosion will blast lose tons of lunar surface and send blazing bombardment of meteors against the Earth.
Some of these huge chunks of Moon rock will burn to nothing as the streak through our atmosphere. However, the biggest pieces may survive the long space drop and smash to Earth with the force of atom bombs. Terrible death and destruction could occur in populated areas.
The reasoning, based on known arguments being used by world-recognized scientists against any attempt to hit the Moon with an explosion.
Tremendous Danger
Men like Dr. H. H. Nininger, director of the American Meteorite museum in Arizona, flatly warn that "a lunar surface explosion can rip loose a great meteor "attack" against the Earth, unprecedented in history and tremendously dangerous."
According to Dr. Nininger, an explosive Moon shot could send down meteors seen larger thant he massive "shooting star" that struck Siberia in 1908 and leveled everything for 30 miles. Or bigger than the 50,000-ton chunk that gouged an Arizona crater in prehistoric times - half a mile in diameter and 700 feet deep.
Most scientists agree that a nuclear blast on the Moon will tear out tons of lunar material. The light gravity field, only one-sixth that of the Eart, won't hold the debris to the Moon.
Foresee "Avalanche"
An "avalanche" of rock, soild and dust will be blown into space at untra-sonic speeds, caught by the Earth's gravitational field, then litterally hurled through our atmosphere toward the ground.
The interval between the actual lunar explosion and the Earth bombardment - separated by 233,000 miles - might be several days time.
"No matter how important to our prestige a 'Moon shot' may be," warns Dr. Nininger, "proving it with an impact and nuclear explosion could bring disaster against which have no defense."
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