From: meiza@inva.com   
      
   Andrew Nowicki  wrote:   
      
   > contraption? Suppose that we drill a hole in the moon,   
   > place a big hydrogen nuclear bomb at its bottom and detonate   
   > the bomb. If we aim the detonation towards the earth,   
   > the regolith, much of it fine dust, will either orbit   
   > the earth or it will plunge into the earth's atmosphere.   
      
   There has been a proposal to blow up dormant volcanoes here   
   on Earth with nukes to release dust into the atmosphere to   
   cool Earth. It was mentioned in a novel by Risto Isomäki.   
   I don't know how seriously it has been studied.   
      
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