Tuesday, July 12, 2011

I just watched a tv show about the moon.?

While I agree with the first respondent, I have read that in as little as 2,000,000,000 years, the Moon could escape from Earth's gravity. Then it would orbit around the Sun in essentially the same orbit as the Earth, and then eventually crash into Earth, ending all life on Earth. But NASA has at least 1,999,999,990 years to figure something out, so I wouldn't worry about it that much. I have also read that due to the gradual warming up of our Sun's luminosity, that all of our oceans will boil away in as little as 1,000,000,000 years, which would essentially end any further escape of the Moon from Earth's gravity. In that event, we would need to leave the Earth entirely(toohot!) or else biologically adapt to daytime temperatures of 200-300 degrees F. I vote for leaving the Earth and colonizing other solar systems long before that happens anyway.

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