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"Presumably it would have been even worse had everyone realized the United States had, a few years before this, planned to nuke the moon, more or less just beca
by mcguire 4y ago
"Presumably it would have been even worse had everyone realized the United States had, a few years before this, planned to nuke the moon, more or less just because they could…"
Do have to say, that was a glorious era of scientific tomfoolery.
- dylan604 4y agoMy favorite has always been scientifically promoted medicinal use of leeches.
- wumpus 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_medicinalis#Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_medicinalis#Today
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- evilduck 4y agoNuking the moon was relatively mild compared to the proposed Project Orion.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoIt was glorious, I think because no one knew what the hell they were doing — or rather, rockets enabled this brave new world where nothing had yet been done. For example, the time they exploded 11,000 gallons of water 80 miles up. "Three more flights with dummy upper stages followed over the next 17 months, which were all completely or mostly successful. Two of them had the S-IV filled with water and detonated at high altitude after stage separation to form an ice cloud that was then photographed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_I#Saturn_emerges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_I#Saturn_emerges