how feasible is it to blow up the moon if i were a mad villain
>>16902961The EU would stop you before you do it, so even if you had access to explosives more powerful than the nukes in the world, you would fail
>>16902961You'd need some kind of force multiplier. Nothing humanity currently possesses would be able to blow up the Moon directly. You might be able to nudge an asteroid into an orbit that would collide it into the Moon. If it were large enough, it could fracture the Moon into smaller pieces. For an examination of what would happen if the Moon for some reason were to break apart, that's the central storyline in 'Seveneves'.
>>16902961not in the slightest would you be able to do it.
>>16902961All the nuclear warheads on earth detonated at once couldn't do it
>>16902961and what would that accomplish? the remains would just slowly form a ring around earth.maybe we'd lose the tides on earth.
>>16903035if the moon blew up we'd have bigger problems than no tides. Basically "Armageddon"/extinction-level-events type asteroids - except there would be thousands of them.
>>16902961Best bet would be to slam a gigantic asteroid or small moon into it at high velocity, which is not feasible with existing tech.somewhat relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G01NoaTM46o
>>16902968>The EU would stop you before you do itWhat are they going to do? Send him an angry letter?
>>16902961Elon, we know the >girls FTW one was fake, you don't have to do this!
>>16902961The probability of mad villains achieving their nefarious hubristic goals is pretty low.
I once woke up in a dream where I sat up out of my body in the room, looked out the wondow, saw a full Moon, saw clouds gather at the poles, saw fingers of lightning emerge dispersing the clouds, they drew back then surged in, pulled back and surged in again then pulled back and then slammed into the Moon which exploded into fragments flying off in every direction. I then turned to someone in the room who had been in the apartment before I went to sleep, put a tab of blotter on my tongue and said good by, good bye, good bye. and woke up
>>16903044Not necessarily. The moon is further away than you might think, the pieces could settle at a safe distance. If I were a supervillain who wanted to do some real damage, merely blowing up the moon would not be sufficient, I would need to somehow direct some of the pieces to travel toward the earth with precision
>>16903089They get them wet and on their side.
>>16902999I just ran it through the AI. Even if you drilled through the surface and laid 15,000 warheads, it would still collapse in on its own gravity.
>>16902961Tesla already figured this out
>>16904524It seems unlikely that whatever force was able to shatter the Moon would do so in a manner that wouldn't send at least a few large chunks into an Earth intercept orbit.
Build a particle accelerator on the Moon to generate a black hole large enough to destroy the Moon. Or does that not count since it is compressing the Moon rather than blowing it up?
>>16902961Any energy that could "destroy" the moon would be more than enough to melt pretty much the entire surface of the earth. Any villain that has the power to destroy the moon would automatically just be able to destroy the earth for humans as well.You could probably destroy the moon over centuries or thousands of years with a mass driver slowly decelerating it, pushing it below it's roche limit but that would not come as a surprise so it's not exactly a villainous plot, but would be the only way to do it practically.
