What would it take to actually push the moon out of orbit? Here’s the science: (From 2021)
If you think this looks weird, that's because this is the correct Earth-moon distance scale. Many illustrations show both bodies as being much larger so that it looks better. I'm not going to do that because I want to treat you as real humans and not lie to you.
Also, the Earth-moon system is now moving to the left. This is because the push exerted an external force on the whole system such that the total momentum is now to the left. This would cause Earth to change its orbit with respect to the Sun, but the shift would be fairly small, so don't worry about that. Let's worry about that moon.
But a crash isn’t the only way the moon could demolish us. At one point in the trailer, it looks like the moon is so close that its gravitational force pulls the ocean away from the planet’s surface. Could that really happen? You can see that the gravitational force from Earth is much larger than the force from the moon. If this was a "tug-of-water," the planet would win. The ocean wouldn't leave.
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