Comment on A handy chart
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think if the last one was a result of the sun not getting closer but the moon getting farther, we’d be okay right?
Like I know it wouldn’t great for certain things.
Yeah sure who needs tides?
In fact, theres a chance that the climate catastrophe from destroying the moon would offset the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Not a very good chance, like 0.00000001%, but still better than everything else we’re doing.
Wouldn’t the lack of tides result in the ocean getting pretty stagnant, deoxygenating, and most ocean life dying except for microbes and plankton, which would then affect the atmosphere and pretty much kill our current biome?
Well when you put it like THAT, I guess yeeting the moon DOES sound like perhaps not the best idea ever…
I don’t think so… why would that happen?
Fuck it, let’s try it.
Kobe!
A moonless earth would still have tides, they’d just be much smaller.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’d find it hard to believe anything could happen that would cause the moon to be thrown out of it’s orbit enough to end up on the far side of the sun, but leave earth unaffected.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Maybe once we start trying to settle it, it’ll look at Earth and say “nope”
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999
Been there, done that.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The moon is slowly migrating away from the earth into higher orbits (due to the earth spinning faster than the Moon’s orbit), eventually it could escape with a gravity assist from Mars or Venus. It’ll have tidal consequences for Earth, but not like catastrophic (though I suspect it might allow the earth’s core to cool a bit faster, which could be the beginning of the end of life on earth).
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But how many millions of years is that?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is lots of them.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Why would impact the core?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Friction heat from tidal forces.