Comments on: The Anticipated Future of the Moon https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/#comment-73813 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:11:50 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=56016#comment-73813 The first time that I read about the moon’s moving away from Earth was -believe it or not – in a Peanuts strip.

My thanks to you for filling in the rest.

]]> By: Scott https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/#comment-73745 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 19:44:32 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=56016#comment-73745 It’s refreshing to read of other commenter’s optimism and confidence in humanity’s future abilities. I read somewhere that more people believe in Angels than believe in global warming – I hope you’re all right that we have an enlightened and powerful future ahead of us.

]]> By: Wanna stay for the answer https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/#comment-73708 Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:07:47 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=56016#comment-73708 If humans survive 5 billion more years, that in itself will be a great triumph, so who am I to say that we won’t be able to stop the sun’s death throes, which would consume the 3 inner planets. The reason for this happening would be exhaustion of the sun’s current fuel, so we’d face the enormous task of replacing much of the sun’s mass to refuel the sun. This would be an astoundingly energy intensive effort, even for an advanced civiliation, which might worry that such immensely wasteful activites would shorten the time to the ultimate heat death of the universe by a few days or years (that math is beyond me).

Would humans be so godlike in their talents that they’d undertake this activity because they can, or would humans have long since migrated to outer planets or to other, younger stars?

I suppose it’s totally irrelevant to any of us reading this now, but I can’t help but root for humanity 5 – 6 billion years in the future.

]]> By: foxpup https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/#comment-73698 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:09:48 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=56016#comment-73698 The science seems solid and the whole raining down of moon fragments is interesting, but the whole scenario is unlikely to happen given the human factor. I would expect that we will have destroyed and rebuilt the Moon, Sun, and Earth many times before the determined time is reached and even then we probably won’t let it happen. Intelligent life also seems to be massively chaotic and disruptive, so all bets are off in what happens in the very long term except to expect the spark of intelligent life to go on, along with all the chaos it causes. :-)

]]> By: Edward https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/#comment-73697 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:43:54 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=56016#comment-73697 Your wonderful shorts stopped showing up in the podcast feed. Not sure if you have abandoned that medium or if there is a problem. Just wanted to let you know I miss them.

]]> By: James Green https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/#comment-73696 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 23:21:36 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=56016#comment-73696 This assumes humans wont do something to stop and/or reverse these processes, which is quite plausible.

]]> By: Jared https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/#comment-73695 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:27:20 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=56016#comment-73695 First, it will be raining rocks for awhile then.
J.Goodlet Perth Australia

]]> By: Mitch McConnell sucks https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-anticipated-future-of-the-moon/#comment-73694 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:01:49 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=56016#comment-73694 Not second. Thanks for another interesting article.

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