| It has been nearly fifty years since JFK set a | | | | save a lot of shipping problems. Beaches would |
| challenge to mankind. And, it has now been forty | | | | stay put for tourists. Mangroves would die |
| years since the challenge was fulfilled by Neil | | | | ensuring few mosquitoes to carry diseases. No |
| Armstrong. Since then, nothing. | | | | more werewolves. No more lost night's sleep |
| Now I am sure you will think that detonating our | | | | because of the full moon. No more howling dogs. |
| moon into tiny dust particles sounds a bit radical, | | | | Stars in the night sky will be much brighter. The |
| but there are some very sound reasons for | | | | list is endless. |
| putting this on our collective political agendas and | | | | NASA could stop wasting money on trying to put |
| working together to implement the plan before | | | | a man back on the moon. It's been done before |
| the next decade is out. | | | | you silly people! They could set a real challenge for |
| Firstly, we now know that there is plenty of | | | | themselves and start designing a real SS |
| water on the moon courtesy of the LCROSS | | | | Enterprise and start training new Captain Kirks. |
| mission. So, get the timing right and blow up the | | | | Get on with finding all those alien life forms out |
| moon when it's trajectory crosses central | | | | there. |
| Australia and the Sahara and boom, instant | | | | Then there is the side benefit of what to do with |
| agriculture. Dumping all those buckets of moon | | | | all our nuclear weapons. Nobody wants to use |
| water on our vast desert regions. On the way to | | | | them anymore, and there are thousands of |
| feeding our ever growing population. | | | | nuclear warheads lying around rusting and rotting. |
| As well as the water, the moon is rich in minerals. | | | | So in one economical exercise, we can rid the |
| We''ll have dug everything up on Earth soon, so | | | | world of these nukes by putting them to good |
| let's plan for our grand children. Gravity will bring all | | | | use. To blow up the moon! |
| those mineral rich dust particles down to Earth in | | | | So I put it to you to pressure your leaders. |
| no time at all. Our kids and grand kids won't even | | | | Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Nicolas |
| have to go down a hole to get the stuff. It will | | | | Sarkozy, Kim Jong-il, Hu Jintao, Ban Ki-moon, |
| just bee lying around, on everything. | | | | Manmohan Singh, Gordon Brown, Asif Ali Zardari |
| Next. Global warming. Solved in an instant by | | | | and all other presidents and prime ministers to |
| blowing up the moon. Our thin protective | | | | work together and set the world this breath |
| atmosphere will be covered with a heat reflecting | | | | taking challenge to save our planet for our |
| dust cloud that will last for thousands, if not | | | | children. |
| millions of years. Just imagine. Our kids could play | | | | Permission is granted to forward this article to Al |
| happily outside without fear of sun burn. In fact | | | | Gore, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and any |
| they would never see the sun at all. | | | | other environmental activists. |
| Did I mention tides? Imagine no tides. That would | | | | |