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General => Philosophy & Scholarly Debate => Topic started by: Daddy on October 08, 2009, 10:38:22 PM

Title: Bombing the moon
Post by: Daddy on October 08, 2009, 10:38:22 PM
Tomorrow we will bomb the terrorists on the moon to find water.

I think we should also send more probes to venus and mars.  What do you guys think of our SPACE PROGRAM
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on October 08, 2009, 10:39:16 PM
I wonder how the rest of the world feels about this... n_u
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: ME## on October 08, 2009, 10:53:59 PM
I believe we should really try to get to Mars sometime in our lifetime.  Let us reform the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics so we have somebody to compete against.
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Daddy on October 08, 2009, 10:54:46 PM
Quote from: Дави́д on October 08, 2009, 10:53:59 PM
I believe we should really try to get to Mars sometime in our lifetime.  Let us reform the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics so we have somebody to compete against.
Let's have atheists and christians race to spac.  akudood;

Pray your way to mars. baddood;
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: wawi on October 08, 2009, 10:58:08 PM
NASA’s lunar bombing violates intergalactic space law and must be stopped!
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: ME## on October 08, 2009, 11:00:41 PM
Quote from: Ensign Halibar on October 08, 2009, 10:54:46 PM
Let's have atheists and christians race to spac.  akudood;

Pray your way to mars. baddood;


Pft, I shall do one better.  I shall pray my way to Zeus Jupiter.  baddood;
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Travis on October 08, 2009, 11:13:29 PM
I can't wait to bomb some Moons!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: sans culottes on October 08, 2009, 11:18:00 PM
I blame Bush.
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Boogus Epirus Aurelius on October 08, 2009, 11:29:15 PM
I've got a ten inch mirror on my scope so I'm going to see if I can watch it happen.
I dont know if the sun's going to be too high when it happens though.
Too much light is going to kill any chances.
The central time zones are probably not the best places to view.

That means getting up early though.
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: YPrrrr on October 08, 2009, 11:30:56 PM
I think it's a really bad idea to mess around with environments you don't understand
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: ME## on October 08, 2009, 11:34:49 PM
Quote from: YPR on October 08, 2009, 11:30:56 PM
I think it's a really bad idea to mess around with environments you don't understand


Yeah, but just imagine.  We could actually put global warming to a good use on Mars.  n_u
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: wawi on October 08, 2009, 11:39:22 PM
We're getting rid of evidence akudood;
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on October 09, 2009, 12:30:15 AM
We think that one of the moons of Jupiter is filled with organisms, and what's more they're developing biological weapons , so we're going to impose sanctions on it and insult its culture until it's class of lower organisms creates an uprising against the elite.
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Travis on October 09, 2009, 12:43:28 AM
Quote from: YPR on October 08, 2009, 11:30:56 PM
I think it's a really bad idea to mess around with environments you don't understand
...what?
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Dullahan on October 09, 2009, 12:46:30 AM
Quote from: Дави́д on October 08, 2009, 10:53:59 PM
I believe we should really try to get to Mars sometime in our lifetime.  Let us reform the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics so we have somebody to compete against.
Yeah, maybe that will get it a magnetic field.
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Andria on October 09, 2009, 12:47:09 AM
Bombing the moon?  baddood; that sounds like a good way to send chunks of space rock hurdling into the earth causing the next mass extinction
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on October 09, 2009, 12:53:00 AM
Quote from: Echo on October 09, 2009, 12:47:09 AM
Bombing the moon?  baddood; that sounds like a good way to send chunks of space rock hurdling into the earth causing the next mass extinction


Um.

So let's assume the rocket hits the moon with force Frocket, where Frocket=a fuckton = 26.54 shitloads. the force will be directed at one point in the nearly spherical moon, with enough energy to vaporize a good deal of shit near the moon, turning it into dust. The dust poses no threat to us.

Any fragments of which you speak would be propelled away from the the explosion, i.e. away from earth, increasing their radius in the universal gravitation equation. And...that shit'll orbit. Anything massive enough to harm us will stay in orbit, anything smaller will be attracted, and do little more damage than a satellite falling. There really isn't much chance of a mass extinction from the moon, even if the moon is mostly broken and not mostly incinterated; universal gravitation is our fried.

Much worse would be the effect on the tides, which would destroy ecosystems and homes, and generally cause shit to hit the proverbial fan.
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Bushy on October 09, 2009, 02:31:15 AM
I eagerly await this baddood;
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Thyme on October 09, 2009, 02:34:15 AM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on October 09, 2009, 12:53:00 AM
Much worse would be the effect on the tides, which would destroy ecosystems and homes, and generally cause shit to hit the proverbial fan.


But we'd get a ring, Pqqu. I think all of that would be worth it for an awesome planetary ring.

A RIIIINNNGGG THE POWER OF GOD
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Zach on October 09, 2009, 03:20:45 AM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on October 09, 2009, 12:30:15 AM
We think that one of the moons of Jupiter is filled with organisms, and what's more they're developing biological weapons , so we're going to impose sanctions on it and insult its culture until it's class of lower organisms creates an uprising against the elite.


well the idea there is that we drill a hole in the surface, which is solid ice, and send shit down to search for extraterrestrial sea life

this is sending a fucking bomb into the moon
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on October 09, 2009, 03:44:30 AM
Has anyone else realized that JMV was making an interstellar analogy to the US involvement in the middle east
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: rdl on October 09, 2009, 03:47:01 AM
Wait, are you fucking serious?

Why wasn't I informed?
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on October 09, 2009, 03:48:15 AM
Quote from: RDX on October 09, 2009, 03:47:01 AM
Wait, are you fucking serious?

Why wasn't I informed?


terrorists

SPACE PROGRAM

happydood;
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Zach on October 09, 2009, 04:23:35 AM
isn't there a way to do this without bombing the moon

edit: after reading an article about it, this is pretty much what happens with space rocks a few times a month anyway
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Selkie on October 12, 2009, 06:31:28 PM
Great, we're now destroying a landmass we don't even live on yet.
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Travis on October 12, 2009, 06:45:00 PM
Quote from: Selkie on October 12, 2009, 06:31:28 PM
Great, we're now destroying a landmass we don't even live on yet.
welcome to 3 days ago

and it's not "destroying"
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: j o e i n c on October 12, 2009, 07:26:41 PM
why not just blow the whole thing up, it's not like it's ever done anything for us
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: bluaki on October 14, 2009, 10:17:05 AM
Is this really any significant damage to the moon? doodthing;

From what I've heard, it's just a little impact of a high-speed probe crashing into the pole to scatter some dust to examine for water particles. An impact which will only make yet another smallish (~60ft?) crater on the mass of hundreds of thousands of craters. But what I don't get from that is why something like drilling isn't better.
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: ME## on October 14, 2009, 12:21:32 PM
Quote from: bluaki on October 14, 2009, 10:17:05 AM
Is this really any significant damage to the moon? doodthing;

From what I've heard, it's just a little impact of a high-speed probe crashing into the pole to scatter some dust to examine for water particles. An impact which will only make yet another smallish (~60ft?) crater on the mass of hundreds of thousands of craters. But what I don't get from that is why something like drilling isn't better.


Because bombing the moon sounds much cooler.  akudood;
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Cookie on October 15, 2009, 02:15:00 PM
I bought two acres of the moon of Lunarembassy.com They better not bomb my part of the moon Q('_' Q)
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: bluaki on November 16, 2009, 01:00:10 PM
And apparently there was indeed a bunch of water they found with this.

One of the first articles I found after googling: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-moon14-2009nov14,0,2036369.story
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: Minus; on November 16, 2009, 01:00:38 PM
yeah
saw that the other day
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 18, 2009, 11:01:55 AM
guys if we blow up the moon all the water will become water vapor and drift in space until the gravitational force of the earth sucks it in at which point it'll rain on us and our children will drown under 11 feet of water omg
Title: Re: Bombing the moon
Post by: ????? on December 06, 2009, 05:44:48 AM
Yes we did it! The next step is to colonize the moon, thus extending our sphere of influence. We have eliminated all opposition, nothing is stopping us. WE WILL DO IT FOR AMERICA! WE WILL DO IT IN HONOR OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS. WE WILL CREATE A NATION ACROSS THE MILKY WAY! THIS IS OUR CALLING! IT IS TIME FOR US TO PICK UP THE BURDEN ONCE AGAIN, AND MODERNIZE THESE PLANETS!