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From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
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Subject: Re: PISCES Project: UIUC computers answer
Date: 4 Sep 1997 18:34:53 GMT
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>In article <5ucoo7$j35$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
>Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium) writes:
>>
>>   Now I don't have the time nor inclination to compute how many fusion
>> bomb blasts and how many years it would take to bring the Moon on a
>> collision course with Earth. Remember a "controlled" collision course.
>> And it need not be a collision but a dismemberment of the moon once
>> close enough and by means of meteor showers "directed" into the oceans.
> 
>In article <lunaruse-tskirvin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim 
> Skirvin) writes:
>
> I had a chance to ask a uiuc engineer your question AP as a volunteer job, 
>guy.  The answer reflects the current consensus.  I do pay attention to 
>corrections - but they have to be accurate corrections.  I refuse to give into >the dictates of any one opinion. I asked Dr. Kang, Department of Electrical and >Computer Engineering, E-mail: kang@ece.uiuc.edu and he shewed me how to program >the
computer for this calculation and it reaches the conclusion that it
would 
>take 365 blasts of 150 megaton hydrogen bombs each to render the moon into a 
>collision course with earth. So if you made one blast per year before the year >2400 the earth will be a two system astro body.
>  AP, do you want me to ask some doctor here at Univ of Illinois whether the 
>oceans can hold all of the moon were it fragmented and meteor showered into our >oceans?

   Thanks for the information, although I am skeptical of that 365
figure. Yes, go ahead and ask someone at UIUC about the Moon fitting
into the Earth's oceans.