Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon 206
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!)"
stupid (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Carl Sagan Use To Drop Acid (Score:5, Funny)
But then he'd find a base to neutralize it and clean it up with a mop.
Re:Typical slashdot summary (Score:5, Funny)
Well it's not going to nuke itself.
News for Nerds, Stuff from Twelve Years Ago (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2000/may/14/spaceexploration.theobserver [guardian.co.uk]
Slashdot editors, kill yourselves.
Re:stupid (Score:5, Funny)
I don’t know. I knew a Polish physics professor who had defected in the 60’s. He though it would be a great idea to detonate a few nuclear bombs to increase earth’s tilt so the USSR would be where the North Pole is now.
This seems a lot less radical.
Re:War; War never changes (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but the Moon deserved it. Have you seen the way it can hit your eye?
Re:War; War never changes (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Why would that be the first step? (Score:5, Funny)
By "people", do you mean the extraterrestrial explorers investigating the remains of a civilization?
Re:Why would that be the first step? (Score:5, Funny)
>so making the moon glow in the dark would make NO sense!
Because it already does that ?!