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Almost every night the moon rises on the earth’s horizon. She became already an element of our culture: present on the canvases of the great painters, inspired to create a poetic masterpiece of more than one the poet. And few people know that the familiar satellite of the Earth represents mortal danger to our planet.
Asteroids carrying death
Every year, the Internet explodes another message about approaching Earth an asteroid that poses mortal danger to our the planet. In 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011 we were scared of the inevitable apocalypse. Human civilization is alive, but we are “reassured”: not everything is lost and assign new dates for the end of the world.
Astronomers without denying the probability of a collision of the Earth with an asteroid, do not believe that the “meeting” will certainly be the end our civilization and humanity as a whole. Earth was already experiencing such clashes survived. 2.5 million years ago between Antarctica and a 4-kilometer asteroid fell in South America. An asteroid winter is not happened, not a single species of living thing disappeared. On the coast a giant wave crashed, but for a planet the asteroid’s fall is not became a disaster.
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Not afraid of that!
If this happens again, our civilization will not survive the most their best days, but they will undoubtedly survive. It will be much worse if the asteroid passes Earth and collides with the moon. In this case the consequences will be truly catastrophic.
Not one hundred asteroids, but most of them burn out in the atmosphere and on Earth if anything falls, it is no longer able to cause a cataclysm. And here is the moon has no atmosphere, therefore its surface is covered with smallpox craters. Fallen to the moon in May 2006, a 25-cm asteroid left a funnel on the surface with a diameter of 14 and a depth of 3 meters. what will it happen if a larger body crashes into the moon?
We read and are terrified
The orbit of the motion of the moon will change. That means loops will break tides. The movement of lithospheric plates will increase, which will become the cause of severe earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Moreover, these disasters will become permanent.
Hundreds of thousands of fragments of a crashed meteorite will fly to Earth, and not all of them will burn in the earth’s atmosphere. “Bombing” will be last a few weeks. If thousands of burning meteorites will fall not in the sea and not in the desert, but in some metropolis, then … In in general, one city on Earth will become smaller.
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As a result of the strike, a huge amount of moon dust will rise, which closes the earth from the sun. Then earthlings will find out that these are real long harsh winters. Summer will be short and cold, which will cause a food crisis. Work the peasant will again become prestigious and very profitable.
If a large enough asteroid collides with the Moon, capable of destroying it, it really will become a disaster, and for The moon for the Earth, and for human civilization – death.
Planet Ocean?
When asked whether there is water on the moon, astronomers confidently answer “Yes”. There are, and its reserves are huge. Only at the North Pole according to astronomers, it is not less than 600 million tons in the form of ice. There are glaciers at the south pole of the moon. On the surface under the layer rocks ice thickness can reach 2 meters. In case of destruction Giant ice blocks will fly moons towards the Earth. Small burn out in space, and large will reach the lower layers of the atmosphere and start to melt.
The process of melting will stretch for tens and hundreds of years. All this time endless precipitation in the form of rain and snow will fall on Earth. In the first year alone, the oceans will rise by 20 meters – in Europe will go under water Amsterdam, Copenhagen, London and several more dozens of large and small coastal cities.
In Asia, Bangkok, Jakarta, Shanghai, Tokyo, and America – New Orleans, New York, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro. IN Russian victims will be St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Arkhangelsk. AND the water level will all rise.
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After 30 years, the water will flood the streets of Madrid, located today on 667 meters above sea level. 112 years later under water Mexico City will be hidden (2240 m. above sea level), after 182 – La Paz (3593m). After 320 years, waves will sweep across the summit of Everest (8848м) and the Earth will finally turn into the planet Ocean.
Today, humanity spends millions and billions of dollars, euros, rubles and yuan to create all kinds of weapons. Will help whether all these tanks, guns and planes when from the depths of space will the “gift” arrive? If something then comes in handy, it’s only submarines and ships, but there is clearly not enough space for everyone there.
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