Posted on 06/20/2020 8:07:47 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Blow up the moon.
It sounds like the grandiose plan of a James Bond villain. Only the idea came, not from a fictional villain, but the government of the United States of America.
The secret mission, code-named “Project A119,” was conceived at the dawn of the space race by an Air Force division located at New Mexico’s Kirtland Air Force Base.
A June 1959 report entitled “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” outlined plans to explode the bomb on the moon’s “terminator” — the area between the part of the surface that’s illuminated by the sun and the part that’s dark.
The explosion would have likely been visible with the naked eye from the earth, in part, because the military had planned to add sodium to the bomb. When blown up, the sodium would glow.
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The moon was blown from orbit in 1999.
A MKII version was put in place.
No matter how nutty was the U.S. Air Force idea, the title is expresses a lie and is dumb and incendiary.
The nutty idea of exploding a device on the moon would not have “blown up the moon”.
As far as the space colony idea is concerned, it was just about a century ahead of it’s time. I think by 2050 we will have a research “station” on the moon, and like Antarctic so will Russia, Europe, China and others.
Dang...they must have done it when I couldn’t see it!
Big Wave surfers hit hardest.
“We will blow up the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they’re easy, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD!” — apologies to JFK.
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