NEW PLAN TO BLOW UP THE MOON!
SCIENTISTS TRIED IT IN 1991, AND . . .HERE WE GO AGAIN!
By VICKIE YORK
MOSCOW -- Five top Russian scientists have cooked up a bold, ambitious plan to transform the entire Earth into a paradise and banish their country's harsh winters forever -- by blowing the moon to smithereens!
Dr. Vladimir Khruinsky, a respected professor of astrophysics and the most outspoken proponent of the proposal, contends that vaporizing the moon with nukes will "liberate" our planet from its gravitational pull.
"For centuries, the moon has been like a ball and chain to Earth, slowing our planet's rotation, affecting our tides -- it is essentially a giant parasite," he declares. "Eliminate the moon and you will eliminate hunger, want and suffering around the world."
The experts point out that the moon's strong gravitational pull gives Earth an awkward "tilt" as it orbits the sun, ruining the world's weather.
"Presently, Earth's spin axis -- the imaginary line passing through Earth from North Pole to South Pole and around which the planet spins -- is tilted 23.5 degrees," Dr. Khruinsky explains.
"It's this tilt that causes the extreme seasonal changes we see in the northern and southern hemispheres -- the brutal winters that make growing wheat so difficult in Russia and the punishing heat that creates devastating droughts in Africa."
Simply destroy the moon and you get rid of the tilt, the experts say.
"A perfect spin-axis tilt of zero degrees would mean no seasons. You would have a temperate climate all around the globe -- it will be eternal spring," Dr. Khruinsky says.
"Crops will begin to grow where today there is only desert sand. Children who are faced with starvation will have full bellies and bright smiles."
Demolishing the moon will be a simple matter of placing about 600 multi-megaton nu-clear warheads on Soyuz-type rockets and launching them at the target.
"We have hundreds of nu-clear weapons in our ar^senal that are serving no purpose," the scientist says. "This is a way to use them to benefit mankind."
The eggheads have presented their bizarre plan to the Russian government, which is said to be giving serious consideration to the scheme.
"President Putin and his Cabinet seemed to be quite impressed with the idea," a Kremlin insider reports. "And while they'd prefer U.S. cooperation, they're willing to go forward unilaterally."
Dr. Khruinsky and his colleagues aren't the first to tout the potential benefits of blowing up the moon. As far back as 1991, Iowa State University mathematics professor Alexander Abian proposed the idea, as Weekly World News reported then.
"I can't predict when it will happen, but it seems in-evitable," he said at the time.
Published on: April 2, 2002
