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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:36:38 PM EDT

Say a large asteroid strike 'sploded it. And the pieces sailed away from earth, not toward it.

What would be the result? Mass hysteria? Dogs and cats living together? 35 foot long Twinkies? What?

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:38:39 PM EDT

[#1]

No more werewolves .Duh

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:39:22 PM EDT

[#2]

End of tidal waters.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:39:40 PM EDT

[#3]

The simple answer is that the oceans would lose tide.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:40:03 PM EDT

[#4]

A great many things. Few of them good.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:41:00 PM EDT

[#5]

That's how you get Ookla the Moc.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:41:04 PM EDT

[#6]

It would be bad.

Though not as bad as if someone had blown it up. Then the remains would come crashing down to Earth in a 5,000 year long barrage.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:41:38 PM EDT

[#7]

Oceans would disappear.

PMS would abound

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:42:37 PM EDT

[#8]

Womans menstrual periods would end.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:44:08 PM EDT

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Womans menstrual periods would never end.

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FIFY

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:44:54 PM EDT

[#10]

Good: No more werewolves

Bad: No more tides

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:46:01 PM EDT

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End of tidal waters.

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We would still have tides from the Sun but much smaller.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:46:48 PM EDT

[#12]

Green cheese prices would skyrocket even faster than under Biden-flation.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:47:59 PM EDT

[#13]

Water would float!

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:48:04 PM EDT

[#14]

Really Really bad things.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:48:55 PM EDT

[#15]

Moon also affects the tide of earths magma. Magnetic field would destabilize. Life would cease

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:49:01 PM EDT

[#16]

It would be really dark at night.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:49:32 PM EDT

[#17]

NV would be a much bigger advantage.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:49:34 PM EDT

[#18]

ER docs and nurses would rejoice!!

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:49:40 PM EDT

[#19]

Im a firm believer in the moon being how exactly how it is (though its slowly moving away) is a big part of why we are here having a conversation about it.

That and many other things but this is a discussion about earth and the moons relationship.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:49:44 PM EDT

[#20]

1) Extreme high tide permanently
2) Pitch black nights.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:50:22 PM EDT

[#21]

Actual climate change would happen sporadically since the moon keeps the earth's axis tilted.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:50:30 PM EDT

[#22]

The continental plates would stop shifting and volcanoes and earthquakes would begin going off nonstop.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:53:20 PM EDT

[#23]

Think of the planet like an aquarium. Think of the moon like a pump. A pump that's moving all of the world's water. Without the pump there's no oxygenation. Without oxygen everything in the aquarium dies.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:54:20 PM EDT

[#24]

Gain and All stock would go up.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:54:33 PM EDT

[#25]

Im pretty sure we all die. Probably be more merciful if it hit us.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:55:35 PM EDT

[#26]

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Say a large asteroid strike 'sploded it. And the pieces sailed away from earth, not toward it.

What would be the result? Mass hysteria? Dogs and cats living together? 35 foot long Twinkies? What?

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No tides. All processes that depend on tidal oscillation stop and all those biozones die. The tidal balance tectonically is disrupted and I have no idea the full scope of those effects but I bet it would not be helpful. The LaGrange pionts are gone; there's probably loose shit floating around those that would go somewhere, maybe here. It would definitely be a mass extinction type event even if we survived as a species.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:56:39 PM EDT

[#27]

The aliens that live inside it and pilot it wouldn't be very happy.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:56:58 PM EDT

[#28]

THATS NO MOON!

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:57:25 PM EDT

[#29]

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Say a large asteroid strike 'sploded it. And the pieces sailed away from earth, not toward it.

What would be the result? Mass hysteria? Dogs and cats living together? 35 foot long Twinkies? What?

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The treadmill would spin out of control.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:57:56 PM EDT

[#30]

I’d need more nite lites.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:58:43 PM EDT

[#31]

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Laundry detergent humor is best humor.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:59:04 PM EDT

[#32]

The Earth and Moon are much more like a binary planet system than a planet with a satellite. The moon is nearly 1/4 the mass of Earth. That's huge for a moon.

Posted: 2/6/2022 6:59:17 PM EDT

[#33]

The Earth would cool very, very slightly because the light from the Sun isn't being reflected back onto the Earth during a full moon.

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:00:20 PM EDT

[#34]

Why doesn't it rotate? Because it's a spaceship inside

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:02:24 PM EDT

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The Earth would cool very, very slightly because the light from the Sun isn't being reflected back onto the Earth during a full moon.

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And there would no longer be a handy simile for getting struck in the eye with Italian food that is equated to love.

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:03:50 PM EDT

[#36]

Freshly hatched time unicorns would have no moonlight to eat.

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:08:02 PM EDT

[#37]

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Moon also affects the tide of earths magma. Magnetic field would destabilize. Life would cease

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This, the moons tidal force pulls on the earth's core as well as the oceans, possibly causing the core to start cooling down.

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:08:58 PM EDT

[#38]

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No more werewolves .Duh

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Maybe that's not so bad.

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End of tidal waters.

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The simple answer is that the oceans would lose tide.

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Posted: 2/6/2022 7:09:08 PM EDT

[#39]

I took a physical oceanography course in college jointly taught by Woods Hole. This topic came up one day. The conclusion was that life would end and the surface of the planet wouldn’t be recognizable.

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:11:03 PM EDT

[#40]

You never saw the documentary? It was set in 1999

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:11:35 PM EDT

[#41]

It would be tectonic.

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:11:49 PM EDT

[#42]

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It would be bad.

Though not as bad as if someone had blown it up. Then the remains would come crashing down to Earth in a 5,000 year long barrage.

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I see someone else reads Stephenson...

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:13:50 PM EDT

[#43]

Venus would be Earth's future model.

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:15:21 PM EDT

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Womans menstrual periods would end.

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I never really thought it through. Do they subconsciously notice the waxing and waning moon, or is it the gravitational pull? How do it know?

Posted: 2/6/2022 7:16:16 PM EDT

[#45]

Someone watched Moon Fall this weekend.

(So did I

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Posted: 2/6/2022 7:16:32 PM EDT

[#46]

Tides gone, seasons would be more erratic because the tilt of the Earth relative to our orbital plane would change more frequently, and days would become shorter.