If the moon were to explode, the situation down here on Earth would most certainly be FUBAR. Fucked up beyond all recognition.
What if the moon got blown to pieces?
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You're twenty posts from ending us all you whale nuking bastard! :U Why's it always gotta be nukes? It's so ...impersonal, ya gotta go at one with a sushi knife!Neonbob said:
Yes if the moon was destroyed we'd have problems, tides would be screwed up, thus it would change the wind patterns, weather, temperatures, and also the debris would destroy earth, and there'd be nothing we could do about it.
Read "Life as we knew it" by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Tells you sorta what would happen if the move was knocked closer to the Earth. Basically this but if the moon was blown up it'd be safe to say "We're Fucked.
(assuming the debries wont kill us) well lose the tides and some animals would lose navigation or stop mating the nits will be darker and we get a disc around earth
thethingthatlurks said:
Plurralbles said:
The sun has more of an effect on the tides then the moon. If you think for a second it should be readily apparent the moon is not the sole source of the tidal action as otherwise there would be much less change between the highest high tides and the lowest low tides. The only reason there is a noticeable tidal effect from the moon is because of how close it is. Neap Tides are what happens when the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth as the sun. You get relatively minor low and high tide changes because the sun slightly wins out over the tidal pull of moon. A spring tide is when you have a new moon and the sun and moon combine their tidal effect, you have very high, high tides and very low, low tides.Mstrswrd said:
Every few years you get a Proxigean Spring Tide because the earth is at it's closest point in the orbit to the sun, and both the moon and sun are acting together on the tides.
Wait! What? I... I. What are they teaching you kids in school these days?summerof2010 said:
Assuming we are not destroyed by the debris, tidal fluctuations and unpredictable menstrual cycles would destroy the earth.
Fragments would be caught in the earth's gravity well, raining down on cities and heating our atmosphere. The loss of the moon would fundamentally alter the tidal patterns of the world's major bodies of water and totally screw up our ecosystem. In short, we'd be quite thoroughly fucked
If we didn't all just flat-out die, I guess it would turn out exactly like it did in the movie The Time Machine. Everything, including the darken humanoids who live underground, and take people from the world above for slavery and sustenance...
Awesome.AdamRBi said:
The earth's axis is held in place mainly by our large moon, if it were to suddenly disappear then earth would slowly but surely spin out of axis, possibly having one of our poles facing the sun.
Since the earth's magnetic field is very weak at the poles, we'd be facing a lot of solar winds which are lethal without our little magnetic field-ness.
And thus there would be an extreme coldness of whatever side is NOT facing the sun. And a searing and lethal heat & radiation of which side is facing it.
*Pant pant*
Uh, what was the subject?
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Since the earth's magnetic field is very weak at the poles, we'd be facing a lot of solar winds which are lethal without our little magnetic field-ness.
And thus there would be an extreme coldness of whatever side is NOT facing the sun. And a searing and lethal heat & radiation of which side is facing it.
*Pant pant*
Uh, what was the subject?
Edit : I GOT NINJA'D
We would be screwed, the planet would change rapidly, the seas would stagnate, and then we would die.
