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I watched an awful movie the other day where the Moon's orbit changes and they want to move it back, and I wondered the same thing. I guess the answer is no. h

I watched an awful movie the other day where the Moon's orbit changes and they want to move it back, and I wondered the same thing. I guess the answer is no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfall_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfall_(film) (don't watch this film, it's not even so bad it's good)

temporallobe 3y ago
That’s hilarious because the first thing I thought when reading the article title is basically the premise of that movie.
erkt 3y ago
The movie is awful but the book is a lot of fun and features last months Eclipse in the opening scene. I hate to see Jack McDevitt’s work trashed.
- qingcharles 3y ago
  Damn, that's a shame. I'll look up the book, thank you.
nonplus 3y ago
Cloud Atlas (released 6 years after Moonfall was released as a book) also has a story with the earth being destroyed by mans attempt to harness the moon for energy (and also has a bad film adoption). Moonfall is the first book I know of that used the concept, but it seems like humans have been fascinated with man or god(s) manipulating the moon for a very very long time, the oldest case I can think of is from the Quran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_of_the_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_of_the_Moon), so we've been fixated on the idea for a long time. Maybe there are more cases and I will read about them in the comments here.
- qingcharles 3y ago
  Weirdly, Cloud Atlas also stars Halle Berry. I really like the movie of Cloud Atlas, myself. I've read the book at least three times, but I don't remember anything about the Moon?
  - nonplus 3y ago
    Oh wow that's because there is not a Moon breakup scene in Cloud Atlas! It's in the movie adaption of The Time Machine. In the book though he just arrives in the future and the moon is already gone (Chapter XIV The Further Vision https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35/pg35-images.html https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35/pg35-images.html). I think I read cloud atlas and the time machine, and watched the time machine movie around the same time, and got everything mixed up. That was a fun afternoon reading through bits of books until I could figure out what I was remembering.
    - qingcharles 3y ago
      Haha.. no worries.. you had me thinking I hadn't been paying attention when reading Cloud Atlas too. I was about to read it a fourth time! ;)
Defletter 3y ago
One of the things that always confused me when watching The Time Machine was the moon falling. It was cool, but it was complete movie magic. Nuclear excavation would in no way send the moon careening into the Earth.

temporallobe 3y ago

That’s hilarious because the first thing I thought when reading the article title is basically the premise of that movie.

erkt 3y ago

The movie is awful but the book is a lot of fun and features last months Eclipse in the opening scene. I hate to see Jack McDevitt’s work trashed.

qingcharles 3y ago
Damn, that's a shame. I'll look up the book, thank you.

nonplus 3y ago

Cloud Atlas (released 6 years after Moonfall was released as a book) also has a story with the earth being destroyed by mans attempt to harness the moon for energy (and also has a bad film adoption). Moonfall is the first book I know of that used the concept, but it seems like humans have been fascinated with man or god(s) manipulating the moon for a very very long time, the oldest case I can think of is from the Quran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_of_the_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_of_the_Moon), so we've been fixated on the idea for a long time. Maybe there are more cases and I will read about them in the comments here.

qingcharles 3y ago
Weirdly, Cloud Atlas also stars Halle Berry. I really like the movie of Cloud Atlas, myself. I've read the book at least three times, but I don't remember anything about the Moon?
- nonplus 3y ago
  Oh wow that's because there is not a Moon breakup scene in Cloud Atlas! It's in the movie adaption of The Time Machine. In the book though he just arrives in the future and the moon is already gone (Chapter XIV The Further Vision https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35/pg35-images.html https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35/pg35-images.html). I think I read cloud atlas and the time machine, and watched the time machine movie around the same time, and got everything mixed up. That was a fun afternoon reading through bits of books until I could figure out what I was remembering.
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    Haha.. no worries.. you had me thinking I hadn't been paying attention when reading Cloud Atlas too. I was about to read it a fourth time! ;)

Defletter 3y ago

One of the things that always confused me when watching The Time Machine was the moon falling. It was cool, but it was complete movie magic. Nuclear excavation would in no way send the moon careening into the Earth.