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If we mess with the tides, climate change will be the least of our worries, we'd be facing total ecosystem collapse. Many species have life cycles that are very
by SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago
If we mess with the tides, climate change will be the least of our worries, we'd be facing total ecosystem collapse. Many species have life cycles that are very closely tied to the effects of the tides, messing with the strengths of those effects could be catastrophic to life on the planet.
- pvaldes 9y agoThen if we colonise and make massive cities in the moon or if we mine extensively the moon for minerals and move them to the earth, aren't we changing (slightly) the mass of the moon? This lead to an interesting question. If we keep adding or removing enough stuff for enough time, at some point we could trigger artificially an effect on tides. We should have a wide safety limit (taking in mind than the moon mass is much bigger than lunokjod2 mass for example, and also any asteroid is also much more massive than human stuff left in the moon), but there is a limit in theory. This could change at long term if we colonise seriously the moon. I wonder if somebody has calculated this coeficient yet. If not, you can call it the "loony valdes" limit, XD XD ;-). About if anyone can make money on the moon, I bet that just recovering lunokjod-2 and bringing it to the earth (or fixing it, if still functional) should provide some money for the rescuers. Is the biggest known concentration of rich metals in a small spot of the moon surface and also the easiest to find and mine. This stuff must be expensive.