What if the Moon Crashes into Earth? – Real Physics (Mostly)
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Today we are answering an age-old very scientific and important question: What if the moon crashes into earth? It’s more interesting and weird than you probably think. Let’s start with the basics: Why isn’t the Moon on its way to crash into us already?
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Please show us what would happen if the Sun began a rotation.
Ur mom
You only made this because of hermit craft lol
Hello
can you do a video on 4-dimensional space
“According to science, the Moon is big and very massive”
Spoken like a true master of sciencing 💜
@Duck Song Fans because the moon runs on a 28.3 day cycle not 27. Your hands are a perfect lunar calender. Hold the open facing south one night. With fingers spread and thumb connecting to thumb. You fingers and knuckle will tell you what phase the moon is in what degree what time of night and the postuon of the moon. Before science was astrology/witchcraft. People used to be condemed and burned at the stake for such things
just like your mom
was just about 2 say, that´s my favorite Kurzgesagt line EVER
Moon’s big
But are they *licensed* scienticians? 😛
I was very surprised that this is actually survivable! I mean, obviously for only a fraction of people, but the fact it doesn’t necessarily just rip the earth to pieces is still really interesting.
Man, how can Steve Taylor convey so many emotions in a so stable voice, gets me thinking from “Haha very funny” to “That’s terrifying”. Love the channel, congrats to all.
This channel is basically “Want to be terrified, have an existential crisis, and have the impossibly massive weight of the universe be put into perspective just for you to think you’re a bit smarter?” and we all say yes
What about the moon’s gravity affecting the movement of the ash clouds from all the super volcanoes? As it starts moving around the Earth faster than the Earth spins, wouldn’t that cause extreme storms in the suspended ash in the atmosphere?
I guess the ash could have been lessened by the giant tidal wave of the ocean, constantly drowning the erupting volcanoes.
The earths atmosphere operates on it’s own. Mostly because Cold air and Hot air doesn’t like to mix. The moon wouldn’t effect it at all.
A little too high a price to pay in order to have a view like Saturn! Loved this one so much!
@Sapphire I am happy that nobody fucking asked.
@The Outer God We will probably end up with a faint ring of metallic trash sooner or later anyway.
No pain. No gain. 😂
Nah, it’s worth it
The strongest sacrifice require the strongest will…
Majora’s Mask references I found:
1:56 – Moon and Majora’s Mask
2:00 – Hylian text on
> Top left: Lakeside on a duck.
> Top right: Malicious summer.
> Bottom left: Fall from the salmo device
> Bottom right: Namikawa Shi 7th term and Osamu’s older brother
3:29
The card itself is a reference of the screen “Dawn of [First-Second-Third] day” in Majora’s Mask.
Also, there’s hylian text on the top which translates as: “Back belt fate apocalypse” (I don’t know how accurate this is though, Google translated from Japanese to English)
There’s an ocarina song on the bottom: Song of Storms.
4:34
The card is the same as the previous one, the top text also translates as “Back belt fate apocalypse”
Song on the bottom: New Wave Bossa Nova.
6:38
The same card again, with the same text on top.
Song on the bottom: Nocturne of Shadow
7:49
The same card again, with the same text on top.
Song on the bottom: Song of double time.
8:43
The same card again, with the same text on top.
Song on the bottom: Oath to order
8:56
Background song sounds similar to Oath to order.
10:02
The card becomes now white. This is a reference to the screen “Dawn of a New Day” in Majora’s Mask, that only is shown when you beat the game or when you do the 4th day glitch.
Song on the bottom: Oath to order (Again)
9:00 Can we just admire for moment *one of the first 3D illustrations shown by Kurzgesagt* on their channel and how amazing it is!
Ikr!!!
Between the Midaspocalypse and this, I am loving this series of magical apocalypses grounded in science. How much more amazing would global disaster movies be if directors hired researchers to work out the mathematics and built a plot around their findings? They could even put “based on true science” in the beginning, like an even more credible version of “based on true events.”
PS: I love my minimalist posters and my Wormhole World shirt. I can’t wait for the preoder on the black hole/white hole plushie, I missed it the first time around!