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Re:Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon by danbruc on Monday February 24, 2014 @06:42PM (#7294172)
Blowing up 15 tons of TNT on the moon is visible from the earth - I would not have expected that. And now I wonder what a Tsar Bomba like bomb - 50,000,000+ tons of TNT equivalent - on the moon would look like.
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Re:Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon by mbenjaminsmith on Monday February 24, 2014 @10:30PM (#7295230)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119

We almost found out. As insane as that plan was, it was relatively sane compared to this, and similar, tests:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

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