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yesctyr asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 2 years ago

What if we shuttle 100`s of atomic bombs to the moon and blast them all at once to move moon to more distant orbit. effect global warming?

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  • james
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Make it hotter on earth. As reflected light cools. Direct light heats. So if the moon was moved closer to the earth more reflected light would hit the earth cooling it. It also might over time with gravity fall all the way to earth.

  • 2 years ago

    It is theoretically possible to shift the Moon's orbit with nuclear weapons. We'd have to detonate them on the surface. This would force rock away from the Moon to leave a crater, and Newton's 3rd law tells us that an equal and opposite force would be applied to the Moon.

    Based on the mass of the Moon and the force you'd need to apply to push it out of orbit, it would take billions of megatons. The global nuclear arsenal is about 6500 megatons.

    So no technology we have can move the Moon. We can't even blow it up, and even if we could, it'd probably just reform due to gravity!

    Plus, of course, we still would have global warming.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    nope. moon is moving 1/4 inch further from earth every year anyway.

  • JimZ
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Unless some of that moon dust gets in between the sun and earth I don't think it would have any effect.

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  • Eric M
    Lv 4
    2 years ago

    I guess you could cause a nuclear winter like that with debris and moondust being blown back into our atmosphere. So yes?

  • 2 years ago

    Atomic bombs will not move the Moon to a more distant orbit. All that they will do is give the Moon a few more craters.

  • If you can come up with a ridiculous scenario, then progs will not only hand wring about it--they will regulate it. Look at what the California dopes did with regulating cow fars.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    I been thinking global warming might be cause by the plastic particle filling the sky after I read they starting to cover are have been covering the rocky mountains means they go higher than Co2 and blocking the Sun light reflection back toward the Earth....but it is just a guess....I have notice the Sun seems to be brighter...

  • 2 years ago

    Don't forget about the C02 to O2 consuming plankton in the oceans. Giant Sequoias can live as long as 3000 years - check the rings around 79AD mt Vesuvius eruption that spewed more C02 into the atmosphere then current levels.

  • Nyx
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Silly hooman - no.

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