What if the moon exploded?

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Recently for some reason whenver I look at the moon, esp. if it is full or almost-full, I have this bizarre fantasy when I witness it blowing up.

It usually involves it breaking into six fragments.

I realise that this is unlikely, but if it did happen what would be the implications for life on earth? Would we all be doomed?

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

why not?

― RJG, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

No more tides (unless the six fragments had sufficient gravity to cause small tides of their own, I dunno). If it was turned into smaller debris it might arrange itself in a Saturn-style ring around the Earth, which would be cool.

― chap, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

this is nice

phew, it hasn't happned yet...

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Don't we need the gravitational pull from the moon to stop us from, er, something?

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

I think that originally I had a dream where it exploded (interpretations pls) and since then I imagine it happening every time I look at it.

A thousand sci fi films have shown us that things make a helluva racket when they blow up in space, which of course they don't on a/c of the vacuum, so witnessing it happening in silence would somehow make it doubly bizarre.

Unlike sci fi, my dream was silent and accurate.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I think the gravitational pull of the moon protects us from meteorites, asteroids ect ect by drawing em in before they reach us. That might be Jupiter tho.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it's not like the moon orbits the centre of the earth but that the moon and earth orbit a point within the earth that is proportionally between the moon and the earth (plus the gravitational effects of everything else in the universe, I guess) so we would probably have a bit of trouble

― RJG, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

The moon rules the fluids
Including the inner juices of human beings
That which assimilates and feeds the body
So the crab feeds his astral plane
Assimilating and distributing all he receives
Slowly, until it becomes a part of him

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I do wonder whether the effects of the panic of all those millions of ppl watching the moon explode would be more pernicious for the survival of humanity than the process itself.....

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure I saw a programme on telly recently in which it said that it's the moon's gravitational pull which stops the earth wobbling too far out of kilter and causing massive extremes of temperature. Or something. I may have dreamt this though.

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

we would probably have a bit of trouble

As Martin Landau said to Barry Morse as all that nuclear waste dumps blew up: (sharp intake of breath through teeth) "That's not great, is it?"
"It's not ideal, no."

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

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