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Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon
First time accepted submitter novakom writes "Apparently during the cold war, one fall-back position the U.S. was looking at to ensure mutual assured destruction was to put nukes on the moon. This would ensure that the U.S. could retaliate against even an effective first strike by the Russians. The first step, of course, would be to detonate a nuke on the moon. And yes, Carl Sagan was on the team (and apparently leaked the info!)"
That's stupid. They should put the nukes on the dark side and then detonate them all at once to crash the moon into Russia. That's so much more direct and efficient than launching the missiles themselves from the moon at Russia.
But then he'd find a base to neutralize it and clean it up with a mop.
Well it's not going to nuke itself.
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Yeah, but the Moon deserved it. Have you seen the way it can hit your eye?
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WTF man? Of course he was talking about going some where else with sufficient resources and habitable conditions. You might as well have assumed he meant we should set up a colony on the surface of the sun for all the idiocy you've attributed to him.
As long as you stayed inside during the day, and only went out at night, a solar colony might be workable.
By "people", do you mean the extraterrestrial explorers investigating the remains of a civilization?
>so making the moon glow in the dark would make NO sense!
Because it already does that ?!
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