Sometimes it amazes me that humans still inhabit the planet. We're working on it though...
The first story I read about this talked about the US literally blowing up the moon. Do you have any idea how many nukes that would take? A **** load, sorry, technical term. As I was reading that story I just shook my head. Who the hell comes up with that kinda crap?
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112737255/moon-us-plans-to-blow-it-all-up-112712/http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/11/26/u-s-planned-cold-war-mission-to-blow-up-the-moon-is-that-even-possible/"Humans have attacked the moon before. In 2009 NASA shot a Centaur rocket booster into the moon, kicking up 350 tons of debris that spewed up six miles high. But that ain’t nothing.
Plenty of folks have done some thinking about how to explode the moon. Here’s a piece from Gizmodo figuring that
you’d need 9,000 bombs of the 15,000 kiloton “Castle Bravo” class to obliterate the entire surface of the moon.But it’s a big step from messing up the surface of the moon to actually blowing it to smithereens like the Death Star did to Alderaan.
There’s some good thinking here on Yahoo Answers on what other forces you’d have to overcome — namely the effects of gravity."
“In order to completely destroy the Moon, you can’t just fragment it; each one of those fragments has to be given enough velocity that it “escapes” the mutual gravitational attraction of the other fragments. That’s called “escape velocity” (for obvious reasons, I hope!). If the exploding fragments have anything less than the critical escape velocity, they will simply coalesce into a pile of rubble. True, the NEW Moon will be completely unrecognizable, but “destroyed”? Not technically."
