Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 06:14:32 UTC No. 16291840

>>16291604
All systems in physics try to reach their lowest energy, equilibrium state. Eventually the moon will be fully tidally locked without drift and tilt, so will the earth in respect to the sun. The moon's just stealing a little bit of our rotational energy due to the tides

Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:05:47 UTC No. 16292391

>>16291604
It's slowly accelerating to escape velocity because its a space station inhabited by very long lived aliens who dont mind taking their time to do stuff

Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:26:19 UTC No. 16292423

>>16291604
The sun will explode before that becomes a problem. It's over for us in a million different ways and there is nothing we can do about it

Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:00:33 UTC No. 16292574

>>16291840
You seem smart. Does that mean days last longer now than in the past? Do we make any corrections to our clocks due to this? If not, won't we reach a point where our timekeeping goes out of sync with the sun?

Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:08:24 UTC No. 16292592

>>16292574
>Do we make any corrections to our clocks due to this?
We do.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:27:32 UTC No. 16292630

>>16292423
It will take another 4 billion years for the Sun to run out of hydrogen and engulf the Earth as it expands into a red giant, but after 1 billion years the Sun will likely have heated up to a point where the Earth is no longer in a habitable zone. Although given that humans have gone from basic civilisation to modern technology within the space of only 5000 years, the chances are that we could develop the technology to become a space-faring species before the Sun has the ability to destroy our planet. Although there's also a chance there's some sort of mass extinction event (like nuclear war, an asteroid impact, climate change, etc.) that will end us.

Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:52:49 UTC No. 16292666

>>16291604
On September 13th, 1999, there was an explosion in secret Moon base's nuclear waste dump. The nuclear waste achieved critical mass and created enough force to push the Moon out of its orbit (very slightly).

Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:53:32 UTC No. 16292668

>>16292666
Devilish thought

Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 22:30:56 UTC No. 16292825

>>16292666
a lie straight from the pit of hell

Anonymous at Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:32:50 UTC No. 16293888

>>16291604
the earth is around 40km bulged at the equator. this is a mostly because of rotational inertia. we can use newtonian mechanics here. as the force diminishes by the distance squared, when the moon approaches the bulge, the distance decreases ever so slightly (math is a bit too long to post here, but it is maximal at 90 deg from bulge to moon ofc). this tugs on the moon ever so slightly, giving it a little kick, enough to make it drift around an inch per year i think.

Anonymous at Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:36:21 UTC No. 16293892

>>16292825
I've seen hours and hours of documentary video proof.

Anonymous at Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:57:21 UTC No. 16293921

>>16293892
we can all watch youtube videos buddy

Anonymous at Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:13:12 UTC No. 16295063

>>16291604
Nobody likes it anyway

Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:10:17 UTC No. 16295830

>>16293892
>documentary on YouTube
I believe you will like >>>/pol/ very much

Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:24:58 UTC No. 16295859

>>16292574
>Does that mean days last longer now than in the past?
IF the earth becomes tidally locked to the sun one half of the planet would be in eternal day and the other would be eternal night

Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:17:17 UTC No. 16296267

>>16295859
we'll have to get superman to impart some extra rotation to the place.