NASA will impact the moon at its south pole with a BOMB Friday that will make the Atom Bomb on Japan look like a firecracker. They really don't want you to know just how powerful this bomb is and that it cannot be a CONVENTIONAL bomb based on its energy output. The plume of ignited debris will be visible from the Mississippi River to Hawaii, with the naked eye! Its all in the Joules. That is the measurement of energy that scientist use in rating output.
The Centaur Rocket will strike at 7:31 AM and convert 2200 kg of mass into 10 billion joules of kinetic energy with a plume of debris that will rise to to over 10km. Did you get all of this. The bomb over Japan never got that high. This is not a hand grenade.
One of the fundamental differences between a nuclear and a conventional explosion is that nuclear explosions can be many thousands (or millions) of times more powerful than the largest conventional detonations. They say it is a "kinetic" bomb...whatever that is? Why the massive tonnage, and how is this thing like millions of times more powerful than a "daisy cutter?"
I saw this bumper sticker today and I thought it was appropriate. Man has fucked up the Earth, now he wants to start fucking with the moon. Don't get me wrong, I am not a LUNAR environmentalist, but there are risk we could not calculate. Like the debris could come back onto us. There is no atmosphere on the moon and only weak gravity to stop the plume.

What about the moon? Do we have the legal right? We have a treaty that most people do not know about. We had one with the Indians. Is Obama the next James Polk who will declare "Manifest Destiny" in that the United States can do anything it declairs in our best interest and screw any treaty we have entered into.
UNITED STATES SIGNED AN INTERNATIONAL MOON TREATY IN 1979
The treaty would apply to the Moon and to other celestial bodies within the Solar system, other than the Earth, including orbits around or other trajectories to or around them.
The treaty makes a declaration that the Moon should be used for the benefit of all states and all peoples of the international community. It also expresses a desire to prevent the Moon from becoming a source of international conflict. To those ends the treaty:
- Bans any military use of celestial bodies, including weapon testing or as military bases.
- Bans all exploration and uses of celestial bodies without the approval or benefit of other states under the common heritage of mankind principle (article 11).
- Requires that the Secretary-General must be notified of all celestial activities (and discoveries developed thanks to those activities).
- Declares all states have an equal right to conduct research on celestial bodies.
- Declares that for any samples obtained during research activities, the state that obtained them must consider making part of it available to all countries/scientific communities for research.
- Bans altering the environment of celestial bodies and requires that states must take measures to prevent accidental contamination.
- Bans any state from claiming sovereignty over any territory of celestial bodies.
- Bans any ownership of any extraterrestrial property by any organization or person, unless that organization is international and governmental.
- Requires all resource extraction and allocation be made by an international regime.
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