It seems to me that it would.
-You would see anyone coming for days.
-You have a bird's eye view of any given part of the Earth at least once every twenty-four hours.
-You could drop massive rocks onto any target. They would have the destructive effects of a huge nuclear bomb, with no fallout.
Given, it would be very expensive to build, and supply would be a major problem. But I think the tactical advantage would be worth it.
2007-02-12 16:42:55 · 10 answers · asked by juicy_wishun 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I feel I should give credit where credit is due. This isn't wholly my idea, I took it from Robert Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh MIstress".
2007-02-12 17:25:46 · update #1
To get to and from the Moon takes about four days. That eliminates any tactical advantage.
Also, spy satellites are much better for looking at Earth than a base 240,000 miles away.
Finally, if the rock is big enough, it will cause fallout. That's what killed the dinosaurs, was a six-mile rock hitting the Earth.
2007-02-13 02:05:28 · answer #1 · answered by usarocketman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, as you mentioned, it would be very expensive. Honestly, the public wouldn't go for it. The government can't say, "Let it be done!"
-You would see anyone coming for days
Uhm... no? To find and pinpoint anyone would be extremely hard, let alone impossible. Even then, communication would have to be funded. The people in the room listening to the people on the moon have to be payed. With what? Our tax dollars!
-Bird's eye view
We have something amazing called a satelite that can track things constantly. We have full time view of any part of the world we want.
-Dropping massive rocks
Silly goose! Things don't "fall or drop" onto the Earth! To get a machine that would launch a rock that has such immense effects is, without a doubt, IMPOSSIBLE. To find that rock would mean cutting a noticable fraction of the Moon and then things would go screwy. Also, there would be a fallout. If it hits a gasline(which it would), a nuclear plant, or anything else that can release things into the enviorment. A "rock" that big would kick up a lot of dust. All of these turnouts are unheard of and will remain that way because we can't do it in the first place!
It would be, like you said, expensive and supplies would be a major problem. Taxpayers don't want rocks being thrown at the Earth!
Hope I've changed your mind!
2007-02-13 01:00:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think it would.
First of all, nobody would have any need to attack the moon, so it would just be sitting there in space, thousands of miles away. Sure it would be hard to attack, but likewise you wouldn't be able to launch any effective attacks from the moon (it would be extremely difficult to calculate how, when, and where to launch an attack, and it would take a long time).
The climate on the moon would make it impractical. The temperatures range from -300 F at night to about 214 F during the day.
There is no atmosphere at all, so the base would probably have to be a large enclosed thing. One single pressure leak could send the whole base into chaos. The gravity is only 1/6th the strength of Earth's gravity, which could make living conditions difficult.
All the energy it would take to sustain a military sized base within this unsustainable terrain would prove to be extremely costly and ineffecient.
2007-02-13 00:59:43 · answer #3 · answered by Steven B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
- Your supply lines are easily cut off.
- Even the slightest interference can cut off communication for days.
- A solar flare's radiation will cook everyone on that side of the moon.
- Everyone will see everything you send from there days before it can reach Earth.
- Every few hours, you'll be pointed the exact opposite direction of Earth by the moon's rotation.
-You'd have to mine said massive rocks, and they'd have to be HUGE, since much of it will burn off on entry
2007-02-13 00:53:14 · answer #4 · answered by ShagRug 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very dangerous to focus any of these morons here that want nukes to concentrate on the moon to shoot at because one of their infidel enemy bases are? Duh? If the moon goes we go? eh?
So no bad idea! But we can build a space station out there and that would be better by far! Think about those idiot Islams looking up and seeing that we are on the moon, duh? Allah made us do it they would find a way believe me, just like a cockroach gets into everything without rhyme or reason they will as well!
2007-02-13 01:37:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That's the dumbest idea i ever heard. A space station orbiting around earth would be much more useful and wouldn't take nearly as long or be as expensive to get to.
2007-02-13 01:04:50 · answer #6 · answered by Max Havelaar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, if we accidentally blew up the moon that would really p!ss me off. Bad for fishing.
2007-02-13 00:46:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds cool. And instead of shooting the enemies, we could just MOON them. That would be kind of assinine though.
2007-02-13 00:53:03 · answer #8 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By golly it never occured to me, but thats a splendid idea, serious.
2007-02-13 00:46:50 · answer #9 · answered by CDog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hehe.. I don't think they would use rocks. we've already sign a agreement with china not to militarise space.
2007-02-13 01:08:29 · answer #10 · answered by Richard M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋