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MonkeyTigerCrazy t1_je1majt wrote

Reply to comment by Funkyduck8 in More Water Found on Moon, Locked in Tiny Glass Beads by LanceOhio

No, it’s not because even if we cut the moon in half nothing would really happen other than it just reshaping into another sphere, and there’s no incredibly valuable environment to destroy there so it doesn’t really matter

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aba-i t1_je2hdu1 wrote

Do our ocean tides not completely depend on the moons gravity?

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Kantrh t1_je2vz90 wrote

We couldn't mine the moon fast enough to affect the tides in any appreciable timescale

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MonkeyTigerCrazy t1_je2oq7b wrote

Would be a problem if the moon got closer because tides would be more extreme but not if the moon shattered, that would just get rid of tides if it eventually turned into a ring

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MonkeyTigerCrazy t1_je22wbe wrote

How would anything happen if the moon gets holes drilled in it? It’s not losing any noticeable energy like the mass that gets sent back to earth so nothing would happen

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