In response to the university professor...this is what would happen if we blew up the moon with a nuclear bomb!
About 4.5 billion years ago, another planet called "Theia", which is about the size of Mars, collided with Earth, causing a violent collision that resulted in a lot of debris that eventually formed our loyal companion "Moon", and it continues to orbit the Earth from that time to this day. . We were taught in school that its main importance to the Earth lies in the phenomenon of tides in the water bodies, which "some" claim that its absence in the absence of the moon may not constitute a matter of life or death for humanity in view of the possibility of improving the climatic condition forever! What would really happen if we blew up the moon and got rid of it all at once?
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Project A119
You may not believe it, but in reality the United States government was actually planning to implement it in the fifties of the last century! At the time when the Cold War between it and the Soviet Union was at its height, specifically after the launch of the Russian ( Sputnik 1 ) in 1957, where the American efforts were seeking to win the race before it began by detonating a nuclear bomb on the moon!
No, there are no real or practical scientific goals as a result of this at all, except for the United States of America to draw attention to it with something that no one has seen before, and the ideal perception of what will happen is that we will be able to see ( the crow's eye cloud ) resulting from nuclear explosions with the eye. Stripped from the surface of the Earth from a small bomb on the moon's surface, it will not carry us any damage, as it represents only 10% of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima .
The US government brought together a group of scientists to study the process well in all respects, and strangely enough, they saw positive aspects of the experiment, including Carl Sagan, who was still a student at the time at the University of Chicago, who thought it would be a great way to ascertain the possibility of microbes or organic compounds on the surface Moon, when there was speculation that there was life on the moon.
This scheme was called Project A119 . Fortunately, it was not implemented after it was finally concluded that it could cause serious disasters, including nuclear contamination of the lunar surface, because of which we would not be able to land on it or conduct any scientific missions, let alone what could have happened. If the missile was actually launched, then the mission failed and the nuclear warhead fell to Earth instead of the moon, there is no need to mention the repercussions of this happening!
Even the mushroom cloud they were trying to see wouldn't have succeeded either! That cloud forms on Earth in nuclear explosions due to the movement of dust and debris that is trying to slowly push upwards through the dense atmosphere of the Earth. As for the moon, there is nothing around its surface but a vacuum! Consequently, the dust will only rise higher and higher without any atmospheric pressure and without any show scenes, and even without sound effects, as the sound does not move except in the presence of a material medium, and we will thus create all that chaos for nothing!
How can we explode the moon from the ground up?
The process of exploding the whole moon is never an easy process, it needs
careful calculations to be done. In principle, placing less than 600 billion
nuclear bombs of the most powerful bombs ever made, hundreds of kilometers
deep under the moon's surface, will only result in some strong fissures across
the moon, and then its gravity will pull those parts again as if nothing had
happened. not.
What would happen if we actually blew up the moon?
Well, let's imagine anyway that it happened and the moon exploded! What will
happen to us? Will it only affect the movement of the tides and the height of
the waves, as happened in the movie (Despicable Me) when the puppy stole the
moon! Or will it be a dangerous act to the point that it threatens the end of
life on Earth, as happened to the dinosaurs!
History will repeat itself and the earth will return as hell!
The debris from the explosion won't go to far space, it's still within our
gravity range! Yes, what came to your mind is true, as it will return to us
again in the form of dense meteors, small in size from them burn in the
atmosphere, but large parts will inevitably fall and will be deadly! With the
increase in the numbers of those burning rocks in the sky, the atmosphere will
increase in temperature, and this will lead to an enormous increase in the
surface temperature of the Earth that living organisms may not be able to
bear.
This is similar to what the Earth was like millions of years ago, where the Earth’s temperature increased dramatically due to the increase in the proportion of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane - global warming - to the extent that the Earth was devoid of ice caps, so that animals close to crocodiles now live in the regions of the polar circles !
The seasons of the year will not return as we know them!
Despite the smallness of the moon, it still affects the earth with its small
gravity, as it is the reason for the stability of the tilt
of the earth's axis
by 23.4 degrees, and in its absence, things will literally turn upside down!
The tilt of the Earth's axis will increase and may reach 45 degrees. This
means that one half of the Earth will be directed to the sun permanently, and
its inhabitants will live in permanent summer, while the other half will be in
permanent darkness and winter!
The presence of one of the two halves facing the sun continuously will eventually lead to the complete melting of one of the poles, which will increase the sea level and drown large areas of the world.
You will have to complete your tasks faster, the day will be shorter!
Over the course of millions of years, the moon had a major role in slowing the Earth’s rotation around its axis and thus increasing the length of the day, as the length of the day in the age of the dinosaurs was only 22 hours, and with time it increased until it reached 24 hours. In the absence of the Moon, the speed of the Earth's rotation around its axis will increase again and the day will gradually shorten.
Marine life forms will be wiped off the face of the earth!
The absence of tides and, consequently, the absence of waves from the seas and oceans may not have a significant impact on humans, but it may represent the end for a large part of marine organisms, as many of them depend on a mixture of land and marine life, such as sea turtles, for example, they lay their eggs on land, and when the time comes Hatching time The waves take the baby turtles into the water to start their life cycle all over again. The absence of waves affects this cycle so much that it could kill these turtles in the first place.
It all sounds like a science fiction movie script! But in fact, all of this can happen in the absence of the moon, and then it will be a disaster by all standards, and we did not even begin to mention what could happen to us in the Arab world in its absence. We depend on it in our Hijri calendar for hundreds of years, so thank you to our friend the moon for sticking with us all this time.