NASA's mission to bomb the Moon

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They will use the water to provide air and grow food to supply the base that they will build there.
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Now that is so mundane.. are you sure that's all there is to it?
 
Bomb the Moon? Why is that such a shocker. It's in our backyard afterall.

Worse news is that humans could pretty much nuke any site anywhere in the solar system! (Anywhere you can send a probe, you could send a bomb).

So...the human capacity for self-destruction is always in hot pursuit of the human instinct for exploration.
 
Quote from saxon:

Bomb the Moon? Why is that such a shocker. It's in our backyard afterall.

Worse news is that humans could pretty much nuke any site anywhere in the solar system! (Anywhere you can send a probe, you could send a bomb).

So...the human capacity for self-destruction is always in hot pursuit of the human instinct for exploration.
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We put a probe into Jupiters atmosphere about 8 years ago that was powered by a nuclear reactor. Some scientists were concerned what would happen when it was crushed by the atmosphere of hydrogen, helium. Would it go critical and start a chain reaction etc. We were lucky apparently or rather Jupiter was.
 
Quote from jficquette:

They will use the water to provide air and grow food to supply the base that they will build there.
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And to make rocket fuel.

Split water = Hydrogen plus Oxygen.
 
Quote from drjekyllus:

And how exactly is that going to work?
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By splitting apart water. Electrolysis?

Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen is good rocket fuel.
 
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