The Moon Is Leaving Us

[Celerity]

Last edited Tue Oct 5, 2021, 12:56 AM - Edit history (1)

And we can’t stop it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/moon-moving-away-earth/620254/







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[lapfog_1]

1. My favorite science fiction writer put it this way

"see ya later, accelerator"

[dweller]

2. Will no one think about

The Tides ?


✌🏻

[FuzzyRabbit]

3. Given how humans are destroying the earth

who can blame the moon for leaving?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. Oh, that's just great!🤬

Article says

Someday, about 600 million years from now, the moon will orbit far enough away that humankind will lose one of its oldest cosmic sights: total solar eclipses.

Good! I don't have to find a way to pencil it in. Between pandemics, all the wars, home grown terrorists, and Climate Change, I don't have time for the moon escaping.

[rpannier]

7. maybe you won't have to worry about tidal changes either

park your yacht and not worry about high or low tide
I'm certain you have a yacht, as we all got one as a present from George Soros two years ago

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Really, given it will be 600 million years before total eclipses become a thing

of the past, and the fact that the Moon will probably never get completely away, this is not a very important story. Really, it isn't.

Let's instead talk about the coming collision of Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies.

[Earth-shine]

6. Space 1999, anyone?

The first episode was called "Breakaway," referring to what happened to the moon.

[TlalocW]

8. I remember reading this

That the Earth moves 1.5 to 2 inches away from the Earth every year in a trivia book back when I was a kid in the 80s.

TlalocW

[speak easy]

9. "And we can't stop it" ?

Sure we can, if we really wanted to. Tsar bomba level blasts 100 km away on the far/dark side would inch it back, but y'know (in not exactly the immortal words of Olivia Rodrigo) what the fuck is up with that?

[Celerity]

10. Olivia Rodrigo 💙💛💚💜

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[malthaussen]

11. Don't tell California Peggy. n/t