A provocative hypothetical question: What if the Moon was not there? Video follows.
This giant rock lights up the night and can even change colors. So what would we do without it? Would we all need night vision goggles? How would it affect the ocean tides? Our seasons? Or our sleep cycles? Or would the consequences be far more drastic?
As the closest celestial body to our planet, the moon exerts a gravitational pull that governs much of what happens here on Earth Take the sea, for example. If you like surfing, you can thank the moon when the moon’s gravitational pull tugs on our spinning Earth, the oceans respond, giving us high tides in some parts of the world, and low tides elsewhere.
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The Earth would speed up it’s rotation, giving us days of six to eight hours long
Rotating at that speed, we would experience winds up to 480 kms per hour (300 mph). Birds and insects would have no chance of survival.
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Earth’s axial plane would vary by some 10 degrees, causing dramatic shifts in seasons, and rendering our climate uninhabitable. Most crops would die with the drastic temperature changes. We’d experience the worst ice ages known to man, as huge glaciers from the north and south poles would encroach upon the Earth, covering everything except perhaps a small band along the equator.
Source script and more: https://insh.world/science/what-if-we-suddenly-lost-the-moon/
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What would happen to the Earth if we had no climate scientists?
When playing “What if?” all sorts of what ifs come to mind.
What if my granny had wheels?
Can anyone explain to me how this varying axial obliquely of up to 10 degrees comes about? What makes the angular momentum of the planet go unstable? Earth is not a spin top with an overturning moment….
No moon to pull on big mammalian protuberances ?!? Only earth’s pull downwards ? Perish the thought , that sight would just be too much to stomach….
This entire discussion has focused around a form of lunacy!
So they’re saying “Space 1999” was Science Fiction….
https://www.google.com/search?q=no+moon+no+earth&oq=no+moon+no+earth&aqs=chrome.
Moon – Spoon – June
No moon, no werewolves.
Without a / 1 / stabilizing moon for a / 1 / real existing planet
we won’t be there.
plain simple.
https://www.google.com/search?q=moon+locked+rotation&oq=moon+locked&aqs=chrome.
We wouldn’t have plate tectonics and surface refresh resulting in life.
No life.
A lot of absolute nonsense here. If earth had not captured and kept a moon, it would look like Venus.
Slow spin rate
no ocean development
No mechanism to pull gases from atmosphere, yes co2
That will be a fascinating topic. The moon once was very close to the Earth now is far more away from the Earth.