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Old 10-06-2008, 05:28 AM   #9
zorgon
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Default Re: Space Scientists WANT to NUKE Saturn?

OH BTW... did you know that Carl Sagan had a plan to "Nuke the Moon"?

His idea was that if they dropped a nuke on the moon the resultant blast would throw matter into the air and they could look for organic material


Air Force Had Plans to Nuke Moon

The U.S. Air Force developed a top-secret Cold War plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon in the 1950s.

In a letter to the journal Nature, physicist Leonard Reiffel, leader of the effort which was called Project A 119, wrote that the Air Force wanted to explore the effects of exploding a nuclear bomb on the moons face. The Air Force wanted the explosion to be clearly visible from Earth.


Part of the team researching the hypothetical explosion was a young Carl Sagan, who was recruited to study how the mushroom cloud would expand and collapse under the moons lighter gravity. Sagan proposed that a legitimate scientific purpose for the explosion could have been examining the cloud for possible organic material.

http://www.space.com/news/spacehisto...on_000514.html
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