i know the moon and the earth is in a state of balance. moon's gravity affects tides on earth. but other than psychological effects to human beings and animals, i cant find any other factors, especially physical factors, that the moon affects.

what if the moon suddenly disappears?

(assume for reasons like an asteroid knocks it out of the orbit and drifts away; or we nuked it with several megatons of nuclear weapon or whatever.)

what would happen to earth

a. immediately
b. within a year
c. years after




care to venture?

there`s no immidiate effect as the effect of dissapearnce of moon takes time to reach earth for us to be felt...

and, what do you meant by disapear? to be accurate?

Well, for one thing we are losing the moon.. But not for another millions or billions of year or so..
Second, if we really lose the moon the way you say, we dun have to worry about our future i guess..
Third, for argument sake we really did lose the moon.
Earth is tilted about 27 degree, i think, from it's axis and it is held there by the moon. So if we really did lose the moon, good bye seasonal changes.

This post has been edited by toekong: Nov 19 2009, 10:42 AM

i cannot turn into colourwolf anymore >_<

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Added on November 19, 2009, 10:42 amthe nights will be darker i guess

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Added on November 19, 2009, 10:43 ama lot of religions are gonna be f***ed since they no longer have the moon.
a lot of people will question their religions.

new religions will arise

This post has been edited by exsea: Nov 19 2009, 10:43 AM

saiya ppl no longer can transform 2 gorilla...awww sad

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Added on November 19, 2009, 10:47 amhistory about Neil Armstrong will be nothing

This post has been edited by egomaster: Nov 19 2009, 10:47 AM

as in not there anymore. gone. disappear. not visually, but physically gone. one day there, next day poof.

interesting. i didnt know earth's tilt is held by the moon. i'll read up more on that.

interesting. coz Islamic calendar is based on the lunar cycle. no moon means no way to really determine how long each month is, meaning no more hari raya .

That would be the only immediate effect



In the near future.



After many many many years(more in the thousands)

how does it affect the earth's rotation?

do you mean explosion?
shattered from meoteorite hit?
out of gravity orbit and hovered in deep space?

this is PhD board.. not Kopitiam....

if this is a seriously PhD board, i doubt u guys would be here.

anyways, focus on the issues. it doesnt matter how the moon disappeared. the issue here is what happens after the sudden vanishing of the moon. just assume whatever happened to the moon did not affect the earth.

1) No more mooncake to makan and celebrate lo.
2) cannot see moon to romantic lo.
3) Cannot become werewolf lo
4) Cannot see in dark lo coz moonlight can improve our vision at night.
5) Cannot raya lo.

2012 liao

I foresee this thread will be shut down due to over spamming

ok.. back to the topic... I think the biggest impact will be gravitational one.. rather than social(eg. religion etc)

un predicted tide etc

This post has been edited by Awakened_Angel: Nov 19 2009, 12:06 PM

it doesnt matter. several spams here had made me thinking . sometimes something stupid that comes out of one's mouth is worth gold to the other.

I dont think it`ll affect much.. as earth`s rotation is affected by sun`s gravity....

when u know more,u worry more(UFO,End of the World,nuke war....)
Our ancestor know nothing about this,yet they lived happily n safe until now...
No worry,be happy

cause religion have too many stories on judgement days

we start constrution of the 2nd death star.....

but jokes aside, tidal patterns will be disrupted, potentially causing harm to human lifestyle, possible destruction on flora and fauna by seashores, and also possibly threatening aquamarine life

Well the most obvious change will be the disruption of tides. Possibly the effect of low and high tide will be much smaller now. Yes you can swim at night now, but you probably have a hard time seeing at night though, so I suppose...it's still dangerous.