Well, since this has drifted off-topic enough that the discussion is about
how to destroy the Moon, I shall link to
this and summarize below. Techniques are listed in order of plausibility.
Note that the link actually discusses destroying the Earth, but the same techniques apply. Recommended reading for all would-be evil overlords.
- 1. Annihilated by an equivalent quantity of antimatter
Create an entire moon made from antimatter and collide it with the real Moon. Alternately, depending on the technology you're using, flip half the Moon's mass to antimatter.
Take every single atom on the Moon and individually split each one down to become hydrogen and helium.
- 3. Sucked into a microscopic black hole
Simply place your black hole on the surface of the Moon and wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Moon is gone.
- 4. Cooked in a solar oven
Focus an enormous array of mirrors to concentrate as much solar energy as you can directly on the Moon. This will cause the Moon to increase in temperature until it completely boils away, becoming a gas cloud.
A variation on this method involves turning the Sun into a gigantic hydrogen gas laser.
Accelerate the Moon's rotation until it starts moving fast enough to overcome gravity and flies apart.
Detonate a bomb so big that it blasts the Moon to pieces. You will need about 300,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter.
- 7. Sucked into a giant black hole
Find a black hole and bring it and the Moon together (preferably by moving the Moon, otherwise Earth might get destroyed too.) Alternately, a neutron star might do the job.
- 8. Meticulously and systematically deconstructed
Dig up the Moon, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit with mass drivers.
- 9. Pulverized by impact with blunt instrument
Find a really, really big asteroid, accelerate it up to some dazzling speed, and smash it into the Moon. Whatever you find would have to be almost as big as the Moon itself.
Similar technique to no. 7 but more convenient. If you're not bothered about Earth, you could just smash it into there instead.[/list]