https://www.wired.com/story/could-the-moon-actually-crash-toward-the-earth/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

Ha, I actually had much the same disaster film idea as a youth. The moon would suddenly start heading for collision with Earth, with all the rising tension and hysteria and gratifying special FX etc.

In my film version the scientists would be completely baffled and no explanation would be forthcoming.

The trouble is if you ask someone to keep an eye on it they eventually go mad and start barking at it and they have to be put away or down.

Peak Warming Man said:

The trouble is if you ask someone to keep an eye on it they eventually go mad and start barking at it and they have to be put away or down.

Or turn into a werewolf.

captain_spalding said:

https://www.wired.com/story/could-the-moon-actually-crash-toward-the-earth/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

Sci-Fi book “Moonfall” is a 1998 hard science fiction novel by American writer Jack McDevitt. The book depicts the impact of an interstellar comet on the moon and how the …

It actually could happen, if an interstellar comet of suifficient mass hit the Moon with enough force to shatter the Moon.
The probabilities are so low as to be negligible, but not zero.

mollwollfumble said:

captain_spalding said:

https://www.wired.com/story/could-the-moon-actually-crash-toward-the-earth/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

Sci-Fi book “Moonfall” is a 1998 hard science fiction novel by American writer Jack McDevitt. The book depicts the impact of an interstellar comet on the moon and how the …

It actually could happen, if an interstellar comet of suifficient mass hit the Moon with enough force to shatter the Moon.
The probabilities are so low as to be negligible, but not zero.

I should also mention that whereas humankind could perhaps (see book) survive such an impact on the Moon, it couldn’t survive the equivalent impact on Earth. Because, unlike the Moon, the Earth has a very thin crust.

Haven’t read the article but y’all know that the moon in reality gets further away each year

dv said:

Haven’t read the article but y’all know that the moon in reality gets further away each year

Yes, yes I do.

I read a tiny bit of the article. It’s about whether some stupid movie plot has any scientific relevance.

Bubblecar said:

Ha, I actually had much the same disaster film idea as a youth. The moon would suddenly start heading for collision with Earth, with all the rising tension and hysteria and gratifying special FX etc.

In my film version the scientists would be completely baffled and no explanation would be forthcoming.

Ming the Merciless.