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if you remove mass from the moon for fuel, does that not effect the orbit of the moon, and with that the tides?
by roflchoppa 11y ago
if you remove mass from the moon for fuel, does that not effect the orbit of the moon, and with that the tides?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIf you start spinning counterclockwise, you're robbing Earth of angular momentum and shortening the day. Source: https://xkcd.com/162/ https://xkcd.com/162/. The point is, Moon is big. It will be long, long time before we could do anything there that could make a measurable difference in Moon's orbital parameters or tidal forces it generates.
- ars 11y agoA single asteroid hitting the moon is more than we could possibly mine. Actually simply the mass from solar wind hitting the moon is probably more than we could mine. (And to whoever downvoted him, this is not reddit, save the downvotes for off topic messages.)