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.
Does the author know that this is one of the “miracles” that Muhammad “did” to prove he was the Messenger?
It (splitting of the Moon) did NOT occur...
However, note the symbol of Islam is the Crescent Moon - with a star (comet or asteroid) nearby.
Read Revelation Chapter 8 - will a comet strike the moon and shower the earth with debris? Seems so.
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The moon only weighs a sixth as much on the moon as it does on Earth.
And each half weighs half a moon, or one twelfth as much as on Earth.
You could pretty much pry them apart with your bare hands.
We’d lose the yolk.
Isn’t a half moon what you get when you rip your pants open on a fence?
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How large an asteroid and at what velocity could accomplish this?
I once saw the backsides of a moon “line” at college. Does that count?
It would be the end of life on Earth. So let us not do it.
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#16. I’ll take “FAKE” for $1,000, 2harddrive.
Is that you Uncle Bo?
#27. How about moving the two halves of the moon into a side-by-side position as a tribute to either Stormy Daniels of Kim Kardashian?
“because the Moon does not rotate.“
The moon does rotate.
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Yes, Slyfox, it IS pretty cool, indeed. But, WHO.....or WHAT.....built them?
#43. You’re gonna need one helluva big pair of hands to pry the moon apart.
Neal Stephenson says the Earth would bounce right back from it. In 5000 years.
“What if the Moon was split in half?”
Wouldn’t the molten iron core explode as the pressure is released?
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