Thread: How many H-bombs will it take to blow up the moon?

1) Find the mass, composition, and average density of the moon
2) Find the average tensile strength of the componants (how much force it takes to break a rock)
3) Convert mega-tonnage to units of force, such as newtons/meter
4) Calculate how much mass can be blown up per h-bomb using answer to 3
5) Divide total mass of moon by answer 4
6) Calculate how much force will be needed to drive all the mass apart and into either Earth or solar orbit. You don't want it collapsing and reforming do you?

That should get you going.

Short answer though:
Q: How many H-bombs does it take to blow up the moon?
A: A whole S***-load of them!

A much simpler method would be to get a bunch of H bombs and drop them on the moon until it blows up.

I'm with Kaniaz

what about colliding the moon with another planet..those always seem cool...although it could indirectly kill us in way or another....

The closest and thus most likely candiate planet would be Earth itself. So thus it would probably definitely DIRECTLY kill us.

It would be easier to just blow it up. Takes a lot of thrust to move something as large as the moon. However, if you decelarated the moon and let it get within the Roche limit of Earth, it would break up on it's own.

In any event, blowing it up would make a nice ring around the Earth, however, that would make space flight even more hazardous than it is today.

And it would mean no more tides on earth, and then every surfer would come and hunt you down.

But we'll just hit them with sticks so it will be okay.

What if they bring dolphins, though?

Then it'll be serious buisness.

..are you trying to get us to do your homework?

Not to mention it will be pretty dark at night.

You can also dig a huge hole and drop nukes inside, but only to a certain depth. After that the surface destruction ratio slopes down hugely, unless you have enough nuclear weapons. But even then the mass of the moon would absorb most result heat/pressure.

Also note, if the moon debris was tight enough together and close enough to earth, the oceans might rise hundreds of feet and flood the earth.

Then the surfers would all be happy. Untill the afforementioned dolphins get greedy and seek to claim the entire world as their own...then stuff gets scary.


WoOoOoOoO! ScArY! Or not. But probably sCaRy! 'Cuz I mean, dolphins. Killing surfers. That's scary, right?

"So long and thanks for all the fish," they'll say.

How big H-bombs?

Originally posted by CT
And it would mean no more tides on earth, and then every surfer would come and hunt you down.

Would still get tides.

I wanna smash the moon into the earth.. it'd probably only kill half the people but it would look mad cool.