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What would happen to the earth....If i blow up the Moon?
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I've always wanted to blow up the moon! Just wondering what the potential side effects would be of such an endeavour!
Obviously the tides would stop moving but what else would happen?
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Obviously the tides would stop moving but what else would happen?
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Thanks Peter. Glad you liked the question. It was meant to be a bit thought provoking and I have wondered if it would be even possible to do(or how much damage you could do by firing 1/several big nukes at it.) I imagine if you did fire nukes, the best you could do is knock a chunk out of it? But I would have thought that that could still have a massive impact to life on earth.
Hello Again, Sherminator
I've just checked the mass of the moon on Wiki and as I thought it's 7,347,673,090,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes (I hope that I've typed the correct number of zeros!). All the nukes in the world fired at it at the same time would have no effect apart from leaving a relatively small smudge!, but if we just imagine it breaking up into millions of pieces for no apparent reason then, the effect would be much the same as I've mentioned earlier and I suppose that we'd have a ring of millions of small rocks. Very pretty from Earth, but with no one alive to see it.
The wonderful thing about our minds is that we can imagine the result of the totally impossible and that is the basis of most scientific research. It's great fun too so don't stop.
Einstein imagined riding away from a clock on the beam of light that was coming from it, and what the effect would be. The result was his theory of special relativity. I believe that having a knowledge of that has enabled us to add a correction factor to the atomic clocks in the satellites used for sat navs and has given us an understanding of the lifetimes of sub-atomic particles in motion just for starters. Three cheers for Einstein and his imagining the impossible!
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Peter
I've just checked the mass of the moon on Wiki and as I thought it's 7,347,673,090,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes (I hope that I've typed the correct number of zeros!). All the nukes in the world fired at it at the same time would have no effect apart from leaving a relatively small smudge!, but if we just imagine it breaking up into millions of pieces for no apparent reason then, the effect would be much the same as I've mentioned earlier and I suppose that we'd have a ring of millions of small rocks. Very pretty from Earth, but with no one alive to see it.
The wonderful thing about our minds is that we can imagine the result of the totally impossible and that is the basis of most scientific research. It's great fun too so don't stop.
Einstein imagined riding away from a clock on the beam of light that was coming from it, and what the effect would be. The result was his theory of special relativity. I believe that having a knowledge of that has enabled us to add a correction factor to the atomic clocks in the satellites used for sat navs and has given us an understanding of the lifetimes of sub-atomic particles in motion just for starters. Three cheers for Einstein and his imagining the impossible!
Regards
Peter
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