Do you remember adding a second a couple years ago at the start of the New Year at midnight? Well, we have to add one second every 100 years.

 

It's a lot more often than that. I remember a couple of times leap seconds were added when I was listening to the clock signals on shortwave for a year. Now we have clocks that read the signals and I don't need to use shortwave to set my clocks any more.

 

Hook

My fear is that the suggestion wasn't stopped because it's ridiculous or totally mad, but just because somebody stood up and said that 'we don't have enough money to get the explosives'. ^_^

My fear is that the suggestion wasn't stopped because it's ridiculous or totally mad, but just because somebody stood up and said that 'we don't have enough money to get the explosives'. ^_^

 

IIRC it was stopped when someone pointed out that American rockets had a bad habit of exploding (which they did at the time, remember this was in the late 50s, so before the Mercury flights), and putting an atomic bomb on top might detonate it a bit sooner than intended.

Then the General said 'point taken.. we need new rockets, and moar!'. :lol:

Hi Devon,

 

 

 

In early the 50's astronomy before computers, they had the moon drifting off into the cosmos and I've read they even thought of a colony on the moon to 'hitch' a ride - more fi than sci I think, but it was the foundation for that early scifi series about a moon base and stored nuclear material which detonated and sent the moon out of orbit and into deep space.

 

BTW, if the moon and earth would happen to survive until they reach orbital resonance the earth will also cease to rotate. Of course it really won't matter much, since the earth and moon will both be located in the suns atmosphere and will be toast to say the least.

 

As you so accurately stated, the human race needs to expand our horizons and spread out some. We are like sitting ducks on a small pond.

 

Nuke the moon? Yeh, that's the ticket. We'll show those Russian! Uh, . . . wait, nobody would be able to see that would they? I know, why don't we send a few good men, they can take pictures and bring back stuff. We'll just put them on the nose of the rocket instead of the nuke, . . . . . and history his made.

 

Mel

 

In "Space 1999", a series in the 1970s, they were on the moon and there was a nuclear explosion on the planet ejected the moon away from the planet.