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What would happen if the moon was gone

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and it’s this difference that determines the height of the tidal bulge.Shorter workdaysThe pulling of the seas toward the Moon not only affects seawater depths along the coasts. The Earth’s rotation is slowed down by what is called tidal friction.The movement of the bulge of tidal water across the oceans and its attraction to the Moon acts as a brake on the Earth’s rotation. Slowly but surely the length of a day is increasing. .......


Residents around Canada’s Bay of Fundy are among the Earthlings who are most affected by the Moon’s influence. They cope with a difference of up to 15 metres between high and low tides. (Photo: Tttrung/Wikimedia Creative Commons)

Because of the Earth’s rotation this gives us high tides twice a day, followed by low tides about 6 hours later.

“We would have less sustantial high and low tides without the Moon. However, there would still be tides, because the Sun also has a tidal effect, although it only amounts to about half that of the Moon,” explains Aksnes.

The Sun is much more massive, but also much further away than the Moon. Even though the Sun pulls on the oceans more than the Moon does, the difference between its pull on the front and back sides of the Earth is less than the case is with the Moon, and it’s this difference that determines the height of the tidal bulge.

Shorter workdays

The pulling of the seas toward the Moon not only affects seawater depths along the coasts. The Earth’s rotation is slowed down by what is called tidal friction.

The movement of the bulge of tidal water across the oceans and its attraction to the Moon acts as a brake on the Earth’s rotation. Slowly but surely the length of a day is increasing. ..."

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The moon always balanced out the suns gravity pulling on the waves, so if it was gone, the sun would pull on the waves so hard that our waves would grow incredibly high. Plus, the moon is locked into an orbit with the earth. This prevents the earth from wobbling out of control. If the moon was gone, our axis would shift all the time making places like the equator to get hot and freezing cool many times a year.

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the earths orbit would be to unstable and the waves and weather would be really bad. there would be no humans. there might be life but probably bacteria like organisms, nothing like a human.

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Disaster

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No tides. Tides are a result of the moon's gravity.

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No light in the night .
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