Since the 1950s, human beings have begun to set foot in space, in 1957 the Soviet Union took the lead in launching the first artificial satellite, in 1961 the Soviet Union sent the first astronaut Gagarin into space, and since then the United States and the Soviet Union have set off a space race for many years.
In that era, human beings created many space miracles, such as the launch of a large number of probes, visiting the 8 major planets in the solar system, of which the United States launched Voyager 1 in the 1970s became the farthest probe launched by humans. Around the 1970s, the United States also landed 12 astronauts on the moon six times.
According to the declassified A119 program, after completing the Apollo 11 lunar mission, American experts had also envisioned conducting nuclear tests on the moon and producing an explosive effect that was visible to the naked eye on the ground.
At that time, NASA scientist Gary Latham proposed that the nuclear bomb be transported to the lunar surface with an unmanned rocket, and then the nuclear explosion test could be carried out on the lunar surface.
However, in order to prevent the radioactive dust generated on the moon after the explosion, which may drift to the earth through the gravitational system, the expert did not recommend experiments on the front of the moon, that is, the surface of the moon we now see, but on the far side of the moon. However, this will not achieve the publicity effect, so most experts still recommend detonating it on the front of the moon. Incidentally, due to tidal locking, the Moon always has only one face facing the Earth, and its front and back are fixed.
Coincidentally, the Soviet Union also had this idea at that time, and also wanted to conduct a nuclear explosion test on the moon, by detonating a super-yield nuclear bomb, creating a huge flash and dust on the lunar surface, forming a terrifying visual effect. To be able to develop this radical idea is to show off muscles during that special period.
American and Soviet experts, out of the possible effects of nuclear radiation on the Earth, eventually envisioned detonating a nuclear bomb at the moon's day-night line, which would be more conspicuous than detonating a nuclear bomb on the front of the moon.
Since the explosion of the first nuclear bomb, humans have carried out nuclear explosions underground, underwater, above ground, and at high altitudes in order to make nuclear bomb technology more perfect. It is not surprising that nuclear explosion tests in space or even on the moon have produced such an idea.
The moon is 380,000 kilometers away from the earth, is the only satellite on the earth, in order to create a shocking effect on the moon through nuclear explosion is visible to the naked eye on the earth, at least the level of the tsar hydrogen bomb is needed. On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a hydrogen bomb with an equivalent of about 50 million tons on Novaya Island, which was the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by mankind.
According to the rocket technology at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were indeed able to complete this idea at that time, but in the end they did not put it into action, because the risk was too high. Imagine if there is a slight accident when transporting a supernuclear bomb to the moon, such as a failed launch and the rocket does not fly out of the atmosphere, the consequences will be very serious.
In addition, after expert arguments, there is no air on the moon, it is impossible to form mushroom clouds and long-term flashes, and detonating a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon can only blow up a large crater, even if a super equivalent nuclear bomb is used, the effect is far less shocking than on Earth.
Fortunately, this radical idea was not implemented at that time, and if an accident occurred, the consequences were really unimaginable.
But the brain hole doesn't stop there.
In 2002, the Russian Vladimir Kruhinsky came up with a very surprising idea: blow up the moon, he believes that the moon caused the earth's axis to tilt, so that the earth will have four seasons in the year, this change makes the climate unstable, so blowing up the moon can make the earth spring all year round.
There were more than one person who had this idea, and it was put forward in the Soviet Union at that time, and the American Alexander Abion also proposed a similar idea in 1991. Alexander Abion believes that if the moon is blown up, without the moon, the Earth's axis will not tilt and sway, the phenomenon of seasonal changes will disappear, and the local extreme weather will disappear, which he believes will improve the survival of human beings on Earth.
These "experts", have they really found ways to improve the earth's climate environment? However, the truth is exactly the opposite, it is the existence of the moon that allows the Earth's axis to remain relatively stable when it rotates. On the contrary, after the loss of the moon, the tilt angle of the Earth's axis will change frequently, which will exacerbate the extreme climate, not to mention making the earth spring all year round.
And this idea is not only wrong, but also unrealistic and very dangerous.
In order to blow up the moon, the energy generated by the explosion must be greater than the gravitational binding energy of the moon. It has been calculated that the gravitational binding energy of the Moon is 1.24× 10^29 focal lengths. This means that even if all the current nuclear bombs from all over the world are transported to the moon for detonation, it is only equivalent to scratching the itch. It can be seen that the idea of blowing up the moon is only a fantasy for the current level of human science and technology, and it cannot be realized at all.
Moreover, most of the debris from the explosion of the moon is bound to hit the Earth, which is not a drizzle, but an unprecedented catastrophe, perhaps far more harmful than the asteroid impact event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
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