Could we blow up the moon?

[Silvercrest]

We have the expertise and technology to dig a hole 1000 miles deep, in vacuum? Who can claim the expertise? No one has ever done it. And what kind of equipment would we need? I doubt it exists now.

 

[Squiggy]

Since we haven't dug a hole 1000 miles deep on Earth...

 

[All Seeing Eye]

We've never needed to design and build a drill to dig that deep into the ground nor do we have the money to design and build such a spectacular piece of machinery but the technology and ability is there to do it.

 

[Jadzia]

Rock isn't infinitely strong. Under enough pressure it will behave like plasticine.

Rather like the 75 mile high pyramid, the rock would easily deform under the pressure felt at any significant depth. Large moons and planets are more-or-less spherical for that reason.

I doubt we could drill a hole 1000km deep without the rock deforming and squeezing shut the cavity quicker than you can dig it out.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

But but but but but, they did it in 'The Core'!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

But but but but but, they did it in 'The Core'!

The power of Unobtainium compelled them.

 

[Chloe_Trek]

We've only just started as species. The dinosaurs were around for more than 100 million years. We can do anything in time. Let's just hope we don't. Hope we don't, live life for today and spread the love. That's all we can do.

 

[sojourner]

We've never needed to design and build a drill to dig that deep into the ground nor do we have the money to design and build such a spectacular piece of machinery but the technology and ability is there to do it.

Never needing to design and build one is the definition of "not having the technology". We could try and might find it doable or we might find some issue that prevents it being accomplished with current technology. Just throwing money at the problem does not generate the scientific knowledge to solve the problem. Scientific advancement requires breakthroughs in research. More money does not guarantee those breakthroughs (though it helps).

It would be nice if everything we can dream up could be built just by throwing money at it. Then maybe I could have that suit of Ironman armor I've been wanting. Unfortunately things don't work that way.

 

[FordSVT]

In the order of 10^29 Joules would be needed to do this.

The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar bomba, was only around 10^17 joules.
You would need 1,000,000,000,000 of them.

With all the nukes we have lying around it sounds somewhat doable

Not even close, by many many many orders of magnitude. We might as well throw firecrackers at it.