Is blowing up the moon possible?
The gravitational binding energy of the Moon is 120 million, trillion gigajoules. To blow it up, you’ll need to drill mine shafts hundreds of kilometres deep, all over the Moon, and drop a total of 600 billion of the largest nuclear bombs ever built down them.
What if we blew up the moon?
If the moon exploded, the night sky would change. We would see more stars in the sky, but we would also see more meteors and experience more meteorites. The position of the Earth in space would change and temperatures and seasons would dramatically alter, and our ocean tides would be much weaker.
What happens if nuke explodes in space?
In the vacuum of space, the lack of air means the principal destructive effects come not from the blast, but instead from the particles and radiation pouring out of the bomb, which dump their energy as heat on striking the target.
Can we live without the moon?
It is the pull of the Moon’s gravity on the Earth that holds our planet in place. Without the Moon stabilising our tilt, it is possible that the Earth’s tilt could vary wildly. It would move from no tilt (which means no seasons) to a large tilt (which means extreme weather and even ice ages).
Would the Earth survive without the Moon?
Without the moon, a day on earth would only last six to twelve hours. There could be more than a thousand days in one year! That’s because the Earth’s rotation slows down over time thanks to the gravitational force — or pull of the moon — and without it, days would go by in a blink.
What if Earth had two suns?
The Earth’s orbit could be stable if the planet rotated around the two stars. The stars would have to be close together, and the Earth’s orbit would be further away. Most likely, beyond the habitable zone, where the heat of the suns wouldn’t be enough to keep our water in a liquid state.
How did Indy survive the nuke?
It refers to the scene in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where our hero (played by Harrison Ford) survives a nuclear detonation by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator. The appliance is tossed half a mile by the blast. So science proves that nuking the fridge is an accurate stunt.