What Would Happen If…?
What would happen if we blew up our moon?
Now, why anyone would want to blow up the moon is beyond us because the moon has so many positive affects on our planet. Some of its benefits include controlling our orbit around the sun and keeping us from getting too close to the sun. Although we don’t have to have our moon to control our orbit, if the sun controlled it, then the days would be hard to predict. Sometimes our days could be 8 hours or some could be 48. The seasons would also be effected by becoming longer and/or a temperature change. There would also be no tides in the ocean, therefore getting rid of all marine life because they cannot survive without the tide. And, it would cause huge title waves that would crash into the mainland.
Believe it or not, both the United States and Russia had plans to set off nuclear weapons on the moon during the great space race. They both wanted to see the effects of nuclear weapons on the moons surface, but the main reason was to demonstrate how much power they had. Luckily, this never happened and people were sent to the moon instead. Although this seems bad, attempting to “blow up” the moon, we wouldn’t actually have had the nuclear power to completely blow up the moon. Even if the entire world were to band together and send all of their nuclear weapons to the moon, it would not blow the moon up into pieces, it would only make the moon look different and smaller. Just a reference to how many nukes would be needed, the world would have to have 9000–15 megaton nukes and they would all have to hit the surface of the moon at the exact same time.
However, for the sake of this argument, say that there was enough power or technology to blow up the moon. It would blow into approximately seven times ten to the twenty-second kilograms of space chunks that could possibly hit the earth. Most of these pieces would take multiple days to hit the surface and even if they are not very large chunks, they could still cause serious damage to the Earths surface. It would be the equivalent of millions of little nukes hitting the surface of the earth. Along with all of the chunks hitting the planet, it would also cause the earth to heat up and essentially become an oven because of all the debris that is traveling so quickly. But, if something was used that caused the moon to just disappear, devastation could be avoided for the first years, until the wobble of the suns gravitational pull got the earth.
What Would Happen If the Sun Was Gone?
The craziest part about this, other than the obvious darkness, is that at first, nobody would even know that the sun was gone. The reason that this would happen is because it would take around 8 minutes to even realize the sun was gone. Now, getting back to the darkness, even the people who are on the moon’s side would not notice until the moon would disappear because no light would be reflecting off of the moon.
Since the world would be so dark all the time, eventually, after the first few months, the world would start to get very cold because our only source of light would have been the stars. It would eventually get so cold that they only way to survive would be to go underground to get closer to the earths core because that would be the only way to keep warm. Also, the darkness would cause plants to no longer produce photosynthesis, causing the Earth to stop producing oxygen. So with the lack of oxygen and the freezing cold temperatures, if humans were able to get underground, the maximum that they could survive is about 1000 years because that is how much oxygen is saved up in the atmosphere. But, the sun is expected to have a life span of roughly 4 billion more years, so we shouldn’t worry too much about it disappearing.
What would happen if you were born in space?
Although the idea is very far fetched and is purely hypothetical, there are many reasons why it won’t work. One of the big reasons is that in order to get to space and live in space you have to go through the training at NASA. This training is very rigorous and challenging, even for a very fit athlete. If a pregnant woman tried to do this, there would be a very different outcome. Also, if the astronaut happened to pass the training but was not already pregnant, conception of a child in a weightless environment would be nearly impossible.
But disregarding all of that and saying that someone did somehow get a pregnant woman in space, there are many factors based on years of experience that we already know about space-travel. One condition is called space sickness, and that is when there is no gravity to pull your bodily fluids down to the lower half of your body and the fluid travels up to your ear canal and causes sickness. These symptoms will include nausea, headaches, disorientation, and vomiting. There is also another effect that comes with zero gravity, and that is called chicken legs. Chicken legs occurs when your body is not getting blood pumped into the lower portion of your body. On earth, gravity does this for us. Therefore, going into space can cause all of your blood to go to the upper portion of your body. So, if someone were to be born in space, some of the effects that they would have would be bulging eyes, and skinny limbs. Because of these skinny limbs, they would not be able to lift anything heavy at all and they would most likely not be able to walk.
There are a few other things like a child being exposed to high levels of radiation and deformations. The difference in radiation levels are pretty crazy, seeing as one day on the International Space Station is equivalent to one year of radiation on Earth. So, a child would likely be exposed to many more diseases than the average human and many of them are deadly.
Even if a child was born in space, it’s body would still be that of a human and would have no special features. If someone is wanting to have a child in space, it might not be the smartest thing to do and will have mostly disadvantages.
