Blow up the moon?

Poets and creative writers love to idolize and equate the moon with romanticism, but wait till you read this article. This is not a joke!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238242/Cold-War-era-U-S-plan-bomb-moon-nuclear-bomb-revealed.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

What would have happened to us poor poets if the plan was really executed! And what would have happened to the earth if the moon was gone, scientifically?....any guesses...throw out your thoughts in the open, all you poetry and science majors. I am all ears. :)

Anything you read in the Daily mail is about as reliable as your average tabloid starsign messages.

IE, utter nonsense.

You mean they publish pure BS in British newspapers ? haha. I have read some which publish.... stuff! "The Sun" published Prince Harry's nude photo's not too long ago. Anyway, will see how NASA or the US official statement on this one is.

But, you prompted me to research how many times this "moon blow up" news has been around, and you are right.......enjoy these links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNdO2gTmlw4&feature=related

(This one is the 2009 attempt by a NASA missile LCROSS experiment to discover whether there is water below the surface of the moon, which would have caused a massive explosion but was either a dud or intercepted by a UFO...see below)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxRwtJ4fYs&feature=related

And this one is hilarious, based on the 2009 LCROSS lunar spaceprobe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

"Mr. President, are you suggesting we blow up the moon?" "Would you miss it?"
(--Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)

Without the moon, the earth will be pulled out of its orbit, like a kid riding a bicycle in circles, with the training wheels suddenly unscrewed.

If the moon goes so do the stars and the words pale along with moonlight.

oh! not forgetting the mission to the moon, Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and the phrase (i think Neil past away) 'that's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind'