h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yuk!

Maybe we could get one of your pieces of string and use it to haul a pipe up there. We could pump some of the sea up there and if it was heavier it might stick around a while longer, we could have a bit more land as well, whad'ya think prof?

sorry! no can do TQ, I want a nice cottage on the moon, so I can sit out in the "air conditioned" conservatory and look down at all the idiots

What? Without a sea and cod 'n chips?

I'd survive, outhouse would be full of whisky/vodka

According to Professor Isaac Asimov, Ph.D., the Moon IS moving slowly away from Earth. However, it will not just drift away into space. As it drifts away, it is also slowly losing inertia.

At some point in the distant future, its inertia will drift below a critical level, and it will drift in more closely to earth. The inertia of the Moon will slowly drop more, to a point where the orbital speed means that it enters a geo-stationary orbit. Before it hits this point, however, the tides will become kilometers high, destroying all life on Earth.

The moon's distance from earth will continue to fall, and Earth tides upon the moon will slowly tear the moon apart, and Earth will have rings, not unlike Saturn today......


However, this will happen only in theory.

Before it can happen, the Sun will have swollen, and become a Red Giant.




Nice to theorise though!!!




GT

I'd best start saving more bits of string then

Every word Science Fact, mate!!!



GT

true GT, I love watching programs about this sort of stuffas a few year down the line, things change as per theory comes along

I saw on the News today that the have restarted the Large Hadron Collider........

Hope they know what they are doing!!!



GT

as we! don't have letters behind our name, we don't know nowt, but! we know how to get value for moneythey ain't

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GT,might be worth the odd bit of back reading regarding Cern etcand the odds and ends we chuck in

CERN doesn't that involve 'stringy bits' in the universe I seem to remember from somewhere? How everything is held together in th sub atomic world? I'll leave the response to greater minds than mine, that's over to you then Prof

I'd baffle Einstein if he was still around

You would baffle John the Baptist Prof!!!!!





GT

Bill and Ben baffle me, let alone loopy loo. Ah, I'm so easily amused

Gawd knows where this is going now Just follow the thread Back on topic

I think that prof is pesonally responsible for keeping the aliens away. I mean, well, if they read some of his stuff they would go away to, ahem, check on a few things; wouldn't they?

And then

Cheers prof

leave it to menot even "smarties" know the answernor my psychiatrists

It's the way you stringthings together, prof.

cheers TQ, much appreciated my friend


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