what happens if we slam an antimatter drydess into the moon using a big cannon

[Clownfish]

nothing the british empire can't handle singlehandedly

see: the revolutionary war

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[TristanLuigi]

alright since nobody else will, i'll ruin the thread
absolutely nothing

we've nuked the earth many times and it didn't really do stuff to it, and the moon may be smaller but it's really not any less resistant to puny human explosions

but we could fling an antimatter moon into it and that would definitely do something

[Clownfish]

alright since nobody else will, i'll ruin the thread
absolutely nothing

we've nuked the earth many times and it didn't really do stuff to it, and the moon may be smaller but it's really not any less resistant to puny human explosions

but we could fling an antimatter moon into it and that would definitely do something

ok buddy, try THIS op on for size

[Drydess]

alright since nobody else will, i'll ruin the thread
absolutely nothing

we've nuked the earth many times and it didn't really do stuff to it, and the moon may be smaller but it's really not any less resistant to puny human explosions

but we could fling an antimatter moon into it and that would definitely do something

That was a good series, also one of my favorites.

[TristanLuigi]

ok buddy, try THIS op on for size

alright i'll bite
The total nuclear yield of all of our nuclear weapons (in 2009, because as it turns out governments don't generally release nuclear secrets) was roughly 6400 MT of TNT. The best way to determine the effect on the moon, maybe we should check the momentum change that would be caused by such energy.

6400 MT_TNT = about 2.678e+19 joules (27 exajoules)

Alright, so we know the total energy of the explosion. The formula for kinetic energy as it relates to mass is:

KE = 0.5*m*v²

Let's plug in the numbers...

2.678e+19 J = 0.5 * 7.348e+22 kg * v²
v = sqrt(2 * (2.678e+19 / 7.348e+22))

Finally, calculate it, and we get 0.026998256 m/s, or for those who use scrub units, 0.06 miles per hour. Not much, is it? And that's assuming 100% efficiency. And explosions are not efficient. Nuclear explosions generate a lot of heat, light, and debris, and the nuke only hits half the moon (the other half is the sky). In reality, the change would be less than 0.001 mph.

So yeah, still nothing.

That was a good series, also one of my favorites.

Sorry, not sure what you're talking about :(

[Clownfish]

:c

:c you've ruined my dreams

[XR-7]

Idk about nuking it, but one of my favorite books talks about the moon being pushed closer to earth by a large meteor, and it caused a ton of tsunamis that enveloped all of the coast line cities, It caused basically all the valcanoes on earth to erupt, hellish weather patterns, and a bunch of earth quakes.

our moon is really important and we should not nuke it. Even if nothing in that book was accurate, it would still be catastrophic.

That would not happen.

[Maxwell.]

That would not happen.

I dunno
the nuke might hurt the moons feelings and he'll want reassurance that we still love it, so he'll come closer

[TristanLuigi]

:c you've ruined my dreams

sorry man
there's just too much damn moon
maybe we should try trading it for a smaller moon?


new OP: depends how fast
if it's like a billion m/s then it will destroy earth catastrophically
if it's like 1 m/s it'll forget up earth but not destroy it

[Clownfish]

sorry man
there's just too much damn moon
maybe we should try trading it for a smaller moon?

or use the moon as the projectile

[XR-7]

I dunno
the nuke might hurt the moons feelings and he'll want reassurance that we still love it, so he'll come closer

I just meant the tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. But yes we should welcome the moon with loving arms but the earth doesn't have arms. That's why we need to build some.

[AutoBahn]

moon moon

[XR-7]

That would potentially be bad as Earth's gravity is going to pull the bits of moons into itself. The big chunks, if they're going fast enough, would likely have little trouble reaching the ground. However, I don't think they'd do nearly as much damage as a conventional meteorite as they would most certainly be moving slower (still hundreds or thousands of km/h).

[Maxwell.]

well, if we build arms like eleXR-7k said then we can stop any of the moon stuff from coming at us

[Drydess]

Curiosity killed the cat, as to the new OP