This channel is about science and imagining things that would never happen but are very interesting. Like videos about black holes or wormholes or what will happen if we blow up all nukes in the world and excetera. I am going to talk about one of their videos that is about what will happen if the moon will hit earth.
What happens if the moon crashes into earth? This video will answer this question.
To fall on earth the moon needs to break laws of physics as it travels are 3600 km/h. We can only use magic in our imaginary scenario to slow the moon down so much that it would fall on the earth.
In this scenario moon will take 1 year until it hits earth. In the first days nothing changes and only scientists are confused as the moon is a little bit brighter.
In the first month tides will become strong and will flood cities.
On the second month the global infrastructure will begin crumbling and destroying homes of around billion people.
Ports will become inoperable and shipping will stop. Communications will stop working, the cables under the water are used to these conditions but terminals on land would break.
Gasoline would become rare as the oil refineries are abandoned. The third month is the same but the satellites would massively change their orbit. In the fourth and third months the tides will grow 100 meters. The moon is so close that the earthquakes of increasing magnitude will happen. In the sixth and seventh months the tides will freeze in place. Half of the world will be flooded and the other half will be a desert.
- In the eight to eleventh months the moon will orbit the moon faster than earth rotates. The floods, earthquakes and volcano eruptions will kill billions. In the final month the moon will reach the roche limit. This is the point where the earths gravitational pull is stronger than moons gravity. Things on the moon will start falling on earth. And when 10.000 kilometers to the surface of earth are reached the moon will disintegrate into rubble. The moon will become rings around the earth like those that Saturn has.