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Yanks planned on blowing up the Moon

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  • #2
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Utter Lunacy.


  • #3
    EDDIE WATERS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭EDDIE WATERS


    Wont somebody think of the Werewolves


  • #4
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Wouldn't be over the moon about that idea at all...


  • #5
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    That would have been a clanger!


  • #6
    joydivision
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 735 ✭✭✭joydivision


    Americans ..... lunartics the lot of them .


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  • #7
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    "I've got nukes up the yin-yang! Just let me fire one!!!"

    "Sir, are you suggesting we blow up the moon?"

    "Would you miss it? Would you miss it?"


  • #8
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    ...and we would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those darn kids !!


  • #9
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    The terrorist threat was too great


  • #10
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Mericans believe moon is inflatable shocker.


  • #11
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    The US planned to blow up the moon according to the Sun :eek:


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  • #12
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Moon River would be no more.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flm4xcOyiCo

    It would be just river.


  • #13
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    The US planned to blow up the moon according to the Sun :eek:

    The Star has reported that it wouldn't be a bright idea.


  • #14
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    be raining cheese forever more.


  • #15
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,145 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    They were just after the Nazi bases


  • #16
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    "I made it clear at the time there would be a huge cost to science of destroying a pristine lunar environment, but the US Air Force were mainly concerned about how the nuclear explosion would play on earth."

    This article is quite funny really


  • #17
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,341 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Just goes to show how paranoid the yanks were after hearing Pink Floyd were releasing an album titled Dark Side of the Moon.


  • #18
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,151 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    One detonation on the moon does not = blowing it up. Still mental, but a bit of a sensationalist headline.


  • #19
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Once crackpot scientist says it happened....so it happened !!

    Everything reported in The Sun is 100% accurate.


  • #20
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Tbqfh, that would have been an awesome sight. But without HD videography we probably wouldn't have gotten the full effect in replays.


  • #21
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    wrote:
    o1s1n
    Mod: Sega One detonation on the moon does not = blowing it up. Still mental, but a bit of a sensationalist headline.

    how you know! Have you tried blowing up the moon before!


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  • #22
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    seen this a few days ago...

    they wanted to blow up an atomic bomb on the moon, not the moon itself, as some sort of show of strength to the russians


  • #23
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    'merica... fuck yea!


  • #24
    Savman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭Savman


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    The US planned to blow up the moon according to the Sun :eek:
    :eek:







    :eek:


  • #25
    loggedoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭loggedoff


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    Utter Lunacy.

    You can say that again, what would the cow jump over if that had happened?:eek:


  • #26
    Fritzl Funderland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Fritzl Funderland


    that would be an ecumoonical matter


  • #27
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    The Yanks always had a dark side I suppose


  • #28
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    Once crackpot scientist says it happened....so it happened !!

    Everything reported in The Sun is 100% accurate.

    Yep! At times like these, we really should shoot the messangers. Or, at least, ignore them.
    Now, let me get back to my biography of Santy.


  • #29
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    It was abandoned because of fears about danger to people on Earth - and the effect on public opinion. Eventually the US decided to land a man peacefully on the Moon in the name of "all mankind" instead - which, it has to be said, seems more sensible.

    Something of an understatement.


  • #30
    gb40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭gb40


    Tide Goes In, Tide Goes Out.


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  • #31
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,101 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    The US planned to blow up the moon according to the Sun :eek:

    Let me guess, they found that out by hacking someone's phone. :rolleyes:


  • #32
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    but what about all the poor moon nazis!?


  • #33
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Typical, their first thought was "let's **** something up".


  • #34
    ghogie91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ghogie91


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    ...and we would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those darn kids !!

    was this an honest mis quote or can you just spell meddling* either ;)

    *no idea how to spell


  • #35
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    i can see also from that link that facebook mistook elbows for nipples.


  • #36
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    The idea was shelved as there was thought to be no oil on the moon?


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  • #37
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    Not strictly relevant, but dont you love the fact that the Americans were going to the moon to spite the Russians and plant a US flag and they say its in the name "all mankind"...?


  • #38
    loggedoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭loggedoff


    Can you imagine the man on the moon, sitting there minding his own business, then BOOM!!! It's 'the day after'!


  • #39
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    Jaysus, Jacobs would of been fooked. They wouldn't of had the Half Moon Full Moon ads.


  • #40
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    okay, sensational headline aside, it reads like they planned to detonate a warhead on the moon so the Russians would see the cloud/flash/explosion. it's a quarter of a million miles away, how would anyone see it? assuming they were looking up at the right time of course.


  • #41
    Fozzie Bear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Fozzie Bear


    sfwcork wrote: »
    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/28/us-planned-to-blow-up-the-moon_n_2202767.html?ncid=GEPHow bizarre.

    "Yanks planned on blowing up the Moon"

    Meh, they have blown up vast areas of this planet. Only a matter of time before they go blowing up parts of another one....


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  • #42
    I_smell_fear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭I_smell_fear


    Yesterday's satire is today's reality!

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


  • #43
    downwithpeace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Probably end up hitting Mars.


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