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What Would Really Happen If the Moon Crashed Into Earth?
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Let’s imagine something. We look up at the night sky, just like any other evening, but something is different. Something is wrong. The Moon—our eternal, constant companion—has begun to fall. Slowly, but absolutely inevitably. In the next few minutes, we embark on a thought experiment: what would a one-year journey toward an impossible catastrophe look like—one that would change absolutely everything we know? And so, here is the big question that drives it all: what would actually happen if our closest celestial neighbor decided to come visit us in the most destructive way possible? But before we unleash the apocalypse, we need to answer another question: why, for heaven’s sake, isn’t the Moon falling right now? No, it isn’t being held up by some magical, invisible force. The answer, as so often happens, lies in pure physics. The key concept here is orbit, and it’s important to understand that this is not some force that fights gravity. In fact, reality is much more interesting. Th...