Thread: Sometimes I Feel Like I'm Living in Cartoon Show...

This is from Yahoo!'s page where I get free email from, after allowing them to sully my mind with extremely poorly written 'news'. Do you ever get the feeling you're much much much more intelligent than some people in positions of untimate power? Life seems to have gotten like a Grimm's fairytail story; with evil emporers granting themselves absolute power, and tyrants planning to blow up the moon. Generally, people are quite insane, aren't they?


The United States planned to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over the-then Soviet Union, scientists claim.
A report in London's Daily Mail this morning says that at the height of the 1950s space race, the US considered detonating an atom bomb on the moon as a display of America's Cold War muscle.
The secret project, A Study of Lunar Research Flights, and nicknamed Project A119, was never carried out.
The Daily Mail article says the mission's planning included calculations by astronomer Carl Sagan, then a young graduate student, of the behavior of dust and gas generated by the blast.
In 2000 physicist Leonard Reiffel said that viewing the nuclear flash from earth might have intimidated the Soviet Union and boosted US confidence after the launch of Sputnik.

Reiffel, now 85, directed the inquiry at the former Armour Research Foundation, now part of the Illinois Institute of Technology. He later served as a deputy director at NASA.
Sagan, who later became renowned for popularizing science on television, died in 1996.
According to the Daily Mail, the author of one of Sagan's biographies suggested that he may have committed a security breach in 1959 after revealing the classified project in an academic fellowship application. Reiffel concurred.
Under the scenario, a missile carrying a small nuclear device was to be launched from an undisclosed location and travel 238,000 miles to the moon, where it would be detonated upon impact.
The planners decided it would have to be an atom bomb because a hydrogen bomb would have been too heavy for the missile, the Daily Mail article says.
Military officials apparently abandoned the idea because of the danger to people on Earth in case the mission failed.
The scientists also registered concerns about contaminating the moon with radioactive material, Reiffel said.
The US Air Force refuses to comment on the claims

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Are you sure you didn't click on a link that took you to "The Onion"?

Carl! We ARE living in a cartoon show. Reminds of "Dr. Strangelove" or an episode of "Pinky and the Brain".
People are NUTS!

I have for some time expected to see Rod Serling pop up with a cigarette in his hand, saying that "this is the Twilight Zone". At least life in my 64 years has seemed like that. YMMV.

I have heard a lot worse ideas than that. How about the Nevada desert or little atolls in the Pacific? To know that people were thinking and tossing around ideas is how things get done. They decided it wasn't the smartest thing to do and went on to other things. Is that bad? For every good idea there is a lot of rejects.

Originally Posted by ReardenSteel

Are you sure you didn't click on a link that took you to "The Onion"?

I've heard of The Onion but never checked it out. No, it was the Yahoo! page...

@ sharpton, thank you for agreeing with me, I feel validated...

Originally Posted by 32t

I have heard a lot worse ideas than that. How about the Nevada desert or little atolls in the Pacific? To know that people were thinking and tossing around ideas is how things get done. They decided it wasn't the smartest thing to do and went on to other things. Is that bad? For every good idea there is a lot of rejects.

Yes, you're right of course, or, um, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Now I know a billion billion lives were saved by dropping the bomb, but still...

When I walk into my son's room and he's playing some 'video game machine' game (as I term the machine to his chagrin) shooting and slashing and killing in various manners I say "Joel, have you TALKED about it". I won't relay his reply...

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I've heard of The Onion but never checked it out. No, it was the Yahoo! page...

@ sharpton, thank you for agreeing with me, I feel validated...

Hey Carl,

It just so happens the Onion was in the news today. Every once in a while, editors pick up on their stories and run them as fact. It happened again, and I found a thing about it in your language to boot!!

Sexiest Man Alive: Chinese newspaper falls for Kim Jong-Un joke

Originally Posted by donv

Hey Carl,

It just so happens the Onion was in the news today. Every once in a while, editors pick up on their stories and run them as fact. It happened again, and I found a thing about it in your language to boot!!

Sexiest Man Alive: Chinese newspaper falls for Kim Jong-Un joke

Didn't see anything about my language, just that Nth Korean guy. Talk about cartoon shows, they are very odd in that part of the world...