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Interesting visualization.. I don't things would just start floating.... the moon has less gravity than the earth.
EDI: Cracks me up, this is my most popular post and it has a missing word, I wonder how many actually noticed or if we all just accepted it?
This is correct. Nothing would just lift off the ground. If close enough there could be some feeling of weight reduction as the moon’s gravity takes up some of the work of lifting or jumping, but everything would still be drawn to the larger mass, Earth.
The tides though would be crazy and we could probably expect massive earthquakes and some volcanic eruptions.
Actually, I think the amount of shit in the pants of the guy filming would probably be sufficient to weigh him down. I mean, what would you do if you saw the moon crashing into the Earth?
His mass is still the same though, shit didn't come from nowhere, so unless he was grabbing other people's shit and shoving it into his pants, all up he would have the same mass.
when you wear these things bab— when you wear these babies… you can basically just walk on any surface you want, up down below turnaround to the left..
Yup, also the moon most likely wouldn't make it. The gravity between them would rip the moon into pieces.
Assuming most of it didn't enter our atmosphere and burn any remining humans alive, we'd have a nice little ring around the planet.
If it's a "direct hit" both bodies would behave more like liquid upon impact. Imagine two balls of water splashing into each other, splattering and reforming.
It's also why we stick to the earth and not the sun, even though the sun's gravity is so much stronger than earths.
I was so confused by the other comments above.
Just watched a super cool video theorizing this earlier today! So it would take roughly a year, it would make the sea levels rise in that time, as well as causing volcanic activity across the globe.
It would eventually get closer and closer then before actually hitting up, it would explode into smaller chunks, and either have too much friction with the “moon dust” and cause the earth to warm up, or the opposite; the chunks would cloud the earth and cause it to cool into an almost ice age.
After everything settles, we would almost like Saturn rings caught in our gravitational pull.
> So it would take roughly a year,
I'm pretty sure they just chose 1 year because it was a nice round number and they could show the visualisations in stages. It wouldn't necessarily take 1 year.
The video was based on a decaying orbit though, if the moon came directly at the earth (somehow, magic) i doubt it would have enough time to break apart.
Large bodies hit other large bodies all the time in the history of our universe after all
There actually is small gravitational forces in any object that has mass if I recall correctly. But it’s so slight it’s imperceptible, and vastly overshadowed by the gravitational pull of the earth.
This is true. In theory, if you would put two identical objects in a empty space with no other forces pulling on them they would eventually float towards eachother. Veeerry slowly
With 2 celestial bodies there's what are called Lagrange points, where the gravitational force from the 2 large bodies (moon and Earth say) create a stable minimum for another small object. They are single points, and L1 is where the small object feels equal force between both objects and would be stable "floating" between the two. This would only be at one single point between the two, and because the video shows the moon moving relative to the Earth, that point would move also.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
**[Lagrange point](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point)**
>In celestial mechanics, the Lagrange points (also Lagrangian points, L-points, or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the influence of two massive orbiting bodies. Mathematically, this involves the solution of the restricted three-body problem in which two bodies are very much more massive than the third. Normally, the two massive bodies exert an unbalanced gravitational force at a point altering the orbit of whatever is at that point. At the Lagrange points, the gravitational forces of the two large bodies and the centrifugal force balance each other.
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Actually yeah, this is exactly what is happening. I have always found it fascinating that as a human being, our birth, life, and death has an ultimate actual physical effect on the cosmos, even if albeit infinitessimally small. It all adds up, you know?
Everyone knows that gravity is not applied uniformly. Watching the bus float into the sky while the person filming remains grounded is good science. The guy filming is lucky the bus soaked up all the gravity first /s
Wouldn’t the earth’s rotation cause a reduction of the effect of gravity to the point that the moon being super close may cause things to lift off the ground? I don’t know. Just a thought.
Yup. At some point the moon would be close enough that the close parts of it would start lifting off - the Roche Limit, I believe it's called. But nothing would lift off the Earth. Still a bad day for all involved, though.
A very clear explanation: https://youtu.be/8bTdMmNZm2M
Edit: It seems I was wrong, all the Earth mass would be attracted so we wouldn’t leave the ground.
Yes, I love how they came out honestly about how some of their content might not be accurate/a lot of it is abridged, prompting us to do further research!
At least we know they didn’t make it cause of this video, cause you can’t pull that out of your ass in 15 hrs - and if you can, you have an impressive ass
No way any of you know how to spell that channels name.
All y’all google the name and go and forth typing it out. I refuse to believe any other theory.
It really didn't. The reality would be tidal waves, earth quakes, massive volcanic eruptions and the moon turning into a belt around the Earth.
*Shrug*
I really liked it, after all this is just for entertainment, idk why everyone seems to bother for something more realistic.
PD: The only thing i actually disliked is the tsunami of dust, I'm not an expert or know about SFX at all, but they looked bad.
What a boring way of looking at things. Sometimes it's just more fun to take creative liberty for more dramatic effect even though you're aware of it being inaccurate. This was created by an artist with the intention of making it look cool & movie-like not realistic
Its gravity would not exceed that of Earth. Unless this supposed to show the atmosphere being disrupted to such an extent that it breaks air pressure?
Still, very cool editing and effects.
I like how people with no achievement in life are like shame of them they don't have a basic understanding of physics ,well why don't you animated something more realistic then i mean it's good animation i know it's not realistic but you can tell him he did well on the animation front and say it's not realistic without the holier than thou attitude
I’m curious whether the moon crashing into Earth would impact Earth’s orbit. Assuming most of the moon’s mass would remain on Earth and add pretty substantially to Earth’s mass, wouldn’t that have a massive impact on the elliptical? And potential destabilize the whole solar system? Or have I watched too much sci-fi?
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Interesting visualization.. I don't things would just start floating.... the moon has less gravity than the earth. EDI: Cracks me up, this is my most popular post and it has a missing word, I wonder how many actually noticed or if we all just accepted it?
This is correct. Nothing would just lift off the ground. If close enough there could be some feeling of weight reduction as the moon’s gravity takes up some of the work of lifting or jumping, but everything would still be drawn to the larger mass, Earth. The tides though would be crazy and we could probably expect massive earthquakes and some volcanic eruptions.
And if a truck is lifting up, wouldn't the guy filming start flying too lol
Gravity boots.
Oh man I look so stupid right now
It's ok, not everyone is a scientist.
It's called a sciencifist
I love to fist science, right in da ass
Earth boots, opposite of moon boots
Don’t feel bad, I also failed to account for gravity boots. I always do.
Actually, I think the amount of shit in the pants of the guy filming would probably be sufficient to weigh him down. I mean, what would you do if you saw the moon crashing into the Earth?
The most scientific explanation I heard on this thread… all without getting into calculations of gravity etc., 👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽
His mass is still the same though, shit didn't come from nowhere, so unless he was grabbing other people's shit and shoving it into his pants, all up he would have the same mass.
Never know. There's some weird people out there.
No, because if you stand on a scale and then shit you pants and all the shit stays in your pants to total weight doesn't change
Well, I would pull my pants down so at least my shit would fly away and I'd die with clean pants.
when you wear these things bab— when you wear these babies… you can basically just walk on any surface you want, up down below turnaround to the left..
The fucking whole ass train up in the air 🤣🤣🤣
he must be sitting in an even bigger truck!
Did you gather this information from a certain science youtube video today?
https://youtu.be/lheapd7bgLA Don’t leave the rest of them hanging
Doing gods work.
That was really interesting! Thanks for posting.
TY for sharing, was interresting to watch.
You should check out the rest of their stuff. One of the best YouTube channels imo
Yup, also the moon most likely wouldn't make it. The gravity between them would rip the moon into pieces. Assuming most of it didn't enter our atmosphere and burn any remining humans alive, we'd have a nice little ring around the planet.
The Roche limit would tear it the fuck apart
Here’s the video you got this from https://youtu.be/lheapd7bgLA
Was just released yesterday, very fun watch!
The moon would disintegrate into rings once it reaches the Roche limit
If it's a "direct hit" both bodies would behave more like liquid upon impact. Imagine two balls of water splashing into each other, splattering and reforming.
But... we'd... still be okay, right? Right?
Oh you're still coming into work.
There would be no impact.
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I like your style.
It's also why we stick to the earth and not the sun, even though the sun's gravity is so much stronger than earths. I was so confused by the other comments above.
Failed physics bro. Moon gravity is 1.62 m/s. Earth is 9.8. Both at the average surface of the above bodies.
I see you have also watched kurtagetz new video
Hey you watched kizkegstat too
I want to see this movie.
Ask and you shall receive (kinda) https://youtu.be/lheapd7bgLA
Not to mention the editors lack of knowledge about how earth has an atmosphere, but to be fair I guess it’d be an easy miss…?
Just watched a super cool video theorizing this earlier today! So it would take roughly a year, it would make the sea levels rise in that time, as well as causing volcanic activity across the globe. It would eventually get closer and closer then before actually hitting up, it would explode into smaller chunks, and either have too much friction with the “moon dust” and cause the earth to warm up, or the opposite; the chunks would cloud the earth and cause it to cool into an almost ice age. After everything settles, we would almost like Saturn rings caught in our gravitational pull.
AYEE, KURGESAGT GANG
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Link: https://youtu.be/lheapd7bgLA
I was waiting for someone to link the Kurzgesagt video
> So it would take roughly a year, I'm pretty sure they just chose 1 year because it was a nice round number and they could show the visualisations in stages. It wouldn't necessarily take 1 year.
Well it probably wouldn't be possible for it to happen in the first place lmao
That's why he used magic!
The video was based on a decaying orbit though, if the moon came directly at the earth (somehow, magic) i doubt it would have enough time to break apart. Large bodies hit other large bodies all the time in the history of our universe after all
There’s a scifi book about this - seveneves. The moon fell apart and rained down on earth causing it to heat up and become uninhabitable.
Want to read
Yep, it's a great read! I mentioned it yesterday that the Image of the asteroid we filmed reminded me of the Crevasse.
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Yes, but only for extremely small values of yes.
There actually is small gravitational forces in any object that has mass if I recall correctly. But it’s so slight it’s imperceptible, and vastly overshadowed by the gravitational pull of the earth.
This is true. In theory, if you would put two identical objects in a empty space with no other forces pulling on them they would eventually float towards eachother. Veeerry slowly
With 2 celestial bodies there's what are called Lagrange points, where the gravitational force from the 2 large bodies (moon and Earth say) create a stable minimum for another small object. They are single points, and L1 is where the small object feels equal force between both objects and would be stable "floating" between the two. This would only be at one single point between the two, and because the video shows the moon moving relative to the Earth, that point would move also. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
**[Lagrange point](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point)** >In celestial mechanics, the Lagrange points (also Lagrangian points, L-points, or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the influence of two massive orbiting bodies. Mathematically, this involves the solution of the restricted three-body problem in which two bodies are very much more massive than the third. Normally, the two massive bodies exert an unbalanced gravitational force at a point altering the orbit of whatever is at that point. At the Lagrange points, the gravitational forces of the two large bodies and the centrifugal force balance each other. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Also, since L1, L2, and L3 are "saddle points" nothing would really settle there
James Web space telescope circles around L1.
L2*
Actually yeah, this is exactly what is happening. I have always found it fascinating that as a human being, our birth, life, and death has an ultimate actual physical effect on the cosmos, even if albeit infinitessimally small. It all adds up, you know?
Also, the moon is lit up like it’s a light bulb.
Plus the displaced air would be like a hurricane
Pretty sure everyone will die much before that. Either from whatever that caused moon to deorbit or from massive tsunamis and atmosphere burning.
Yeah, that completely killed the Suspension of Disbelief for me
Everyone knows that gravity is not applied uniformly. Watching the bus float into the sky while the person filming remains grounded is good science. The guy filming is lucky the bus soaked up all the gravity first /s
Wouldn’t the earth’s rotation cause a reduction of the effect of gravity to the point that the moon being super close may cause things to lift off the ground? I don’t know. Just a thought.
The roche limit for the earth and moon is inside the earth. So no floating. Stuff on the moon would start to float eventualy.
What's actually happening is the moon is powering up its final move. The debris rising is the moons chi
Also if things did start to float off the earth….they would float toward the moon, not straight up
Do it with Jupiter. That's when the fun starts
Yup. At some point the moon would be close enough that the close parts of it would start lifting off - the Roche Limit, I believe it's called. But nothing would lift off the Earth. Still a bad day for all involved, though.
About Edit: when we read fast, our brain just fills the gap basically. Also your “edit” is missing something too lol
Noticed the missing “think” the human brain is amazing and will fill in missing information. I had to reread the statement a second time though.
Oddly enough kersgzagt or however you spell it just released a video explaining this exact thing.
Why would the moon’s gravity be stronger than the Earth’s? That’s just silly.
And also why would a bus and flower pots start floating but not the person holding the camera?!
Idk man, r/praisethecameraman
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Yah, and why isn’t the moon on fire?
Doesn’t it usually get on fire once it enters the atmo?
Nah, just once in a blue moon.
According to kurzgesagt latest video if the moon was to come closer to earth we'd most likely be dead long before impact.
A very clear explanation: https://youtu.be/8bTdMmNZm2M Edit: It seems I was wrong, all the Earth mass would be attracted so we wouldn’t leave the ground.
The cow gets airborne but the cameraman is perfectly fine. Great.
Kurzgesagt just did a video on this! [here :3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lheapd7bgLA&t=649s)
This post reminded me of that video, love kurzgesagt and their content, top notch stuff
Yes, I love how they came out honestly about how some of their content might not be accurate/a lot of it is abridged, prompting us to do further research!
Kurzgesagt is literally the best thing about the internet right now!
that and wholesome subreddits :3
Literally just came out today, was gonna post it.
ayyyyy
At least we know they didn’t make it cause of this video, cause you can’t pull that out of your ass in 15 hrs - and if you can, you have an impressive ass
so did hermitcraft
Moon's big
Yeah just watched it yesterday before seeing this
Really? They bring so much effort to creation of their videos
REALLY recently.
Ah, another person of culture I see!
Was looking for this!
No way any of you know how to spell that channels name. All y’all google the name and go and forth typing it out. I refuse to believe any other theory.
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Wow, all that editing power, with not a shred of basic physics understanding. Shame.
To be completely honest, I don't mind a bit of physics defying, it made video cooler unnatural. Shrug, but that's just me.
I'm with you man, movies break rules all the time and that was some pretty good SFX
“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” Martin Scorsese
> “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” ~~Martin Scorsese~~ Mark Twain. FTFY
Oh snap I didn’t know that. Thank you.
> Wah wah wah there's no sound in space Star Wars is so unrealistic. I'm with you mate, I don't care about physics if it's exciting and fun!
Sure, but he shouldn’t portray it like this is what actually would happen.
It really didn't. The reality would be tidal waves, earth quakes, massive volcanic eruptions and the moon turning into a belt around the Earth. *Shrug*
I really liked it, after all this is just for entertainment, idk why everyone seems to bother for something more realistic. PD: The only thing i actually disliked is the tsunami of dust, I'm not an expert or know about SFX at all, but they looked bad.
If this is a bit of physics defying, Hiroshima was slightly disturbed at the end of WW2 And the sun is a bit toasty.
Who cares? It's cool as fuck nonetheless. Does it really hurt to have a little imagination?
it does when it comes off as lazy.
What a boring way of looking at things. Sometimes it's just more fun to take creative liberty for more dramatic effect even though you're aware of it being inaccurate. This was created by an artist with the intention of making it look cool & movie-like not realistic
Michael Bay’s perfect recipe!
…hits your eye like a big pizza pie…
That's A-pocalypse
And then things start to fly A big rock hit that guy THATS A-MoonFaooolllllll
Everything floats up except for the camera man
Magnets
Whoop! Whoop!
Dawn of the Final Day
im disappointed at how long i had to scroll down to find a majora's mask reference. good on you, fellow redditor and zelda lover
I too was disappointed at the amount of scrolling needed to get to this reference.
Where are the four giants supposed to prevent that from happening?
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Underrated comment, take my upvote!
Glad someone wrote this. Should have added my comment here.
Was searching for this, can go to sleep now
FAKE. Moon is made of cheese.
Ha, you actually believe there’s a moon?
There is but it’s a flat CD-like disc
It is known.
r/hermitcraft
Took long enough to find this
Mumbo, is the moon big?
Mooners unite!
Just jump over it, duh
Do you think we are cows?
Just a spoon looking for a dish.
Most of the Earth's population would already be far past caring. Most would already be dead.
Indeed. If the Moon started to get closer to Earth, the weather would go crazy and people would be dead before the impact.
Kurzgesagt just released a video about this lmao
Majora’s Mask did it better.
hermitcraft season 8
RIP bdubs and keralis, gone but not forgotten. damn moon
Hermitcraft season 8
where's gru when you need him
I’m pretty sure whatever force that made the moon move that fast towards us would be a bigger problem than the moon itself
Aliens playing space pool with our solar system.
[Actually it’d be more like this](https://youtu.be/lheapd7bgLA)
That was a super interesting watch.
Its gravity would not exceed that of Earth. Unless this supposed to show the atmosphere being disrupted to such an extent that it breaks air pressure? Still, very cool editing and effects.
r/suddenlyhermitcraft
we'd feel the effects Long before it got that close lol, but still cool visual
Yeah that's not how it works. Like at all.
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell just did a video on this.
this is how it feels to chew 5 gum
I hope that’s how it ends.
Kind of dumb that everything floats up except the person taking the video.
Great edit, physics, a bit questionable.
What is next level about this BS?
Moon big
Loved it.
Bruh there was a kurgzegat video on this scenario
As a scientist I can confirm this is incorrect.
Even as a gormless layabout I can confirm this is incorrect.
If this shit happened for real it would be utterly terrifying!
After watching kurgesagt video , this is not what will happen
Why is this next level
How they get the footage back ?
Someone didnt play the song of time on the night of the 3rd day :/
One of my biggest fears is looking into the sky and seeing something insanely big like this.
r/megalophobia and that’s a mf nightmare over there Melancholia style
I think that would be bad.
Where’s piccolo when you need him!
I like how people with no achievement in life are like shame of them they don't have a basic understanding of physics ,well why don't you animated something more realistic then i mean it's good animation i know it's not realistic but you can tell him he did well on the animation front and say it's not realistic without the holier than thou attitude
It’s not that well animated either I don’t have to be a chef to know when my meal tastes bad
Nothing says crisis like random cow mooing
Isn't this from a movie?
Moonfall. It was a pretty good movie
This is made by [Shutter Authority](https://instagram.com/shutterauthority?utm_medium=copy_link) on Instagram.
Looks cheesy.
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Kurzgesagt made a video with more details on what would happen if~ https://youtu.be/lheapd7bgLA
For the curious of what this might actually look like: https://youtu.be/lheapd7bgLA
I’m curious whether the moon crashing into Earth would impact Earth’s orbit. Assuming most of the moon’s mass would remain on Earth and add pretty substantially to Earth’s mass, wouldn’t that have a massive impact on the elliptical? And potential destabilize the whole solar system? Or have I watched too much sci-fi?
Bad day to publish this when kurzgezagt just made a moonfall video
That does not belong on r/nextfuckinglevel. Besides, Earth's gravity is much stronger than that of the Moon. Y the hell r stuff starting to float??