Somebody call Herr Mueller. We found more Russian collusion.
Posted on 05/01/2018 7:32:11 PM PDT by SamAdams76
If you simply flew up into space and sawed the moon in half with a giant hacksaw, most likely, nothing would happen. This is because gravitational force would hold the two halves together, sort of like a couple of magnets.
But what if you were able to get a couple of giant crowbars and put a person on the other side and then count to 3 and totally separate the two halves of the moon?
With enough strength applied, you could theoretically push the two halves far enough apart where the gravitational force no longer pulls them together and now the two halves start drifting apart.
This is where the fun begins.
It would be a pretty awesome sight from planet Earth, that I can tell you. Now if you left them in the same orbit (around the Earth), they'd eventually meet up with each other so you would have to find a way to push them into different orbits - maybe if you put a bunch of thruster rockets on one of the halves...I'm just thinking out loud here. I'm sure others will have better ideas.
So in essence, if we are going to successfully split the moon apart, we will need to apply enough delta V to one half of it to put it into a drastically different orbit. No mean task!
Here on Earth, in addition to the spectacular sight, we'd get reductions in tides with and increase in variability if spring and neap tides.
Long term, one of the moon halves will go into a more elliptical orbit, diving down close to the atmosphere of the Earth and perhaps even skim off much of the atmosphere, resulting in widespread extinction of species and other unfavorable effects.
In conclusion, splitting the moon in half, while certainly a tempting endeavor, should probably not be seriously attempted as the end result could well be catastrophic with respect to planet Earth.
You don't think a company like Harbor Freight would just pick two words at random out of the dictionary that had a tough sound to them in order to trick people into buying crap from them?
That would be criminal.
I suppose this must have missed the final list of “Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy” because it was too wordy.
How would it affect were wolves? Would they have even more widely split personalities?
Somebody call Herr Mueller. We found more Russian collusion.
It’s not Aunt Flo either.
LOL, I don’t know why, perhaps the way you worded it that just hit my funny bone!
Sure is! I use it all the time...:)
The moon does rotate.
The Russians took the first photos of the back side if the moon in 1959.
Blue Moon
The rare exception being figuring out the double helix DNA structure while on an LSD trip.
Whenever Superman pushes a planet, somewhere to the people who observe it, he looks like he's just doing pushups.
Space 1999. Martina Landau.
“Omygosh, I can see my hands!”
“They’re holding a bong!”
Who could forget Thundarr the Barbarian?
They has an episode with acid rain, which ate away and destroyed everything it touched.
A future apocalyptic wasteland. Dystopia for kids!
The other dystopia for kids TV show was Ark 2. Now that show was just plain nutty. Almost a Damnation Alley for young ones.
I propose a different, nutty idea:
Mount enormous rockets on the surface of the moon, horizontally, to impart rotation. It may take years to finally rotate.
Then we can all see what’s on the other side!
Three things...1) The Democrats would blame it on Trump, 2)The Dems would blame Climate Change or 3)The Dems would blame Conservatives... 😀
You’d get a better deal at Harbor Freight.
Good cartoon.
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