NASA. The worlds number one space agency, run by dedicated men and women commited to furthering Human knowledge right? Wrong-Nasa are in fact a group of loons with access to the planets most powerful explosives, as evidenced by their latest plan:
NASA are going to BLOW UP THE MOON!!
Well, almost. Basically they are launching the LCROSS satellite, it’s mission;to search for water on the lunar surface. So far, so boring. But it’s the method that’s interesting-the probe will detonate a huge explosive device, sending an explosive plume up to 6 miles into the Moon’s atmosphere.
An oldie but a goody for this weeks explosion-in honour of the fantastic new Trek movie, here’s a nice scene where the peace loving crew of the Enterprise blow some poor bugger’s head clean off. Ah the 90s, It was political correctness gone mad, mad I tell you!
Electric Spectre takes pleasure in many things, but a couple of our favourites have to be bacon sandwiches, and cutting-edge military hardware. How pleased we were to learn today that the good ol’ boys at the Pentagon share our interests, as they have spent the last 18months BLOWING PIGS TO SMITHEREENS!!
Seems like DARPA finally used up all those guys who volunteered for napalm testing, and decided to move onto our porcine friends, strapping body armour to them before putting them in a Humvee (Wait-before you continue reading, take a moment to really get a good mental image of that…) and blowing the whole thing up with a variety of jury rigged bombs!
Apparently the goal here is to help protect soldiers in Afghanistan from roadside bomb attacks, but with the added bonus of pork chops raining from the sky in surrounding towns.According to DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker:
“The research on pigs has determined that body armor does not worsen brain injury”
No.I’m not sure how they figured that out either, unless the pigs had the good sense to drive the Humvee through the camp fence and escaped to Mexico.
With the apocalypse fast approaching, it’s obviously time to cash in. So it is with great fanfare that a new catalogue landed on our doorstop this morning, and for once it wasn’t for ‘Wizzy Kebabs’. Nope, because this is the time of year that the cheery optimists over at American Bomb Shelter have a sale!
Seems Obama’s positive attitude hasn’t convinced some people (Especially now that Putin has proved he can kill a tiger in a wrestling match), so home shelters are big business again. So it’s heartening to see that just $16,000 (about £3.27p) will net you:
All of the precision manufactured steel parts
All of the pre-cut and shaped rebar, including enough for one riser
A single blast hatch for that riser
Two 8-foot ladder sections for a 16-foot ladder
An ASR-100N-NBC Safe Cell air filtration/ventilation system
Two blast valves (one each for the air intake and exhaust pipes)
One overpressure valve
Free telephone technical support
Continuing our tradition of reporting on google map addons, here’s a nicely complimentary feature for the Disaster Mapper- Ground Zero. Basically pick your weapon- I am going with ‘Planet Cracker’, because screw you planet Earth- and GZ will generate you a nice little iconised map showing the effects of destruction and radiation poisoning. This obviously won’t work after an EMP hits you, but it is perfect for planning that tactical strike on Milton Keynes, or just knowing which way to run when the oil starts running out next year.
