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KT1972
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21-04-2019 20:47
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GrumpyGhostOwl
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I watched and immediately came up with more questions.
If the Moon were orbiting the Earth at the same distance as the ISS, then I picture two main scenarios.
The first one is that the Moon had just settled in naturally instead of where it is now, we'd all be like, "Meh, that's the Moon," right? Always been there.
There would be lots more songs about the Moon, and Moon worship would have formed a significant part of our history. For Australians, Mister Squiggle* would probably have been a major deity. Or possibly blasphemy. You choose.
The Earth would be a far more oblate spheroid than it is today. Tidal energy would be huge. Surfing could potentially be a super-mega-extreme sport. There would be less inhabitable land.
Religious objections aside, we would probably have visited the Moon more often and the big corporations would have been mining it for decades by now.
"Lunacy" would be even more of a thing than it is now. The medical establishment maintains that people are no crazier at full Moon than they are at any other time. My experience working in the hospital system, albeit empirical and purely observational, leads me to believe otherwise.
The second scenario is if the Moon just suddenly got there.
If we just woke up one morning and the Moon was there instead of where it used to be, a lot of us wouldn't have woken up that morning. It would be like a worldwide tsunami disaster. You could say goodbye to most islands, large swathes of Europe and many of the world's major cities. Australia would suddenly be largely uninhabited. You could say goodbye to most of Great Britain, all of Florida (including Hostile Florida from the BotP ep 'Ace From Outer Space') and a lot of the coastlines of every continent on Earth. There would still be cockroaches and politicians, though.
We'd probably end up back in the Iron Age for quite some time.
On the bright side, the massive tidal surge caused by the sudden appearance of the Moon in the near neighbourhood would probably topple Center Neptune and we could wave bye-bye to 7-Zark-7.
Every cloud has a silver lining, amiright?
* A children's television show that used to be on just before BotP involving the eponymous marionette -- Mister Squiggle, The Man From The Moon -- who had a pencil for a nose and who used his pencilnose to complete drawings from "squiggles" sent in by young viewers. It was cute, taught kids to see shapes and patterns in things and encouraged creativity in the young.
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