If we make a really deep hole inside the moon, as deep as we can and as big as we can and?

Question

fill it with 1 million atomic bombs, will it explode to small pieces?

and how it will effect the earth and life on the earth?

Answer 1

It will explode to small piece, the pieces of the moon will be hot and it will fall down to earth creating wave and burning everything. If we survive that, and still exists. The night sky would be filled with stars. The moon also affects the tide of the ocean.

Answer 2

Princess, there is a job for you on Planet Westminster.

Forget life on earth, that would change in every degree.

Life here has been built up over billions of years with the moon being a basic feature.

Remove it and life would probably become so confused that it would cease to the basic level.

Would earth survive an exploding moon do you think?.

Answer 3

your presence is overwhelming me. um, with brains like that you deserve to working at a hospital ... a mental hospital .... as a patient

Answer 4

I saw this thing on TV once where for some odd reason the tides stood still. This in turn stopped all the ocean currents that, “dead water” so all the fish died and  the water got toxic. In turn it also caused a drought and almost everything on land died as well. So i guess that if the moon exploded and there were not big enough peaces hitting the earth to put us into the next ice age, then that would happen.  But that is just me....

Answer 5

If we somehow blow the moon to smitherines first of all we are not going to have any tides. and no seasons cuz moon contributes to earth tilt. so the animals that survive on tidal pools will either have to evolve or e extinct. o and the nights  will be darker.

Answer 6

I can't believe how bitter some of these answers seem to be, I mean they criticise you for not getting technical specs right or diss you as being mental when all you want to do is expand your knowledge! So, you say "Atomic" instead of "Hydrogen", so what, we all get the picture and and if it makes them feel superior then it says more about them than you, anyway, to the question, even if none of the debris was to hit the Earth, it would probably be thrown out of its orbit because the moon also acts as a counterbalance to the rotation and stops it from going into "Wobble" overload which could cause the Earth to completely fall over on it's axis so that one pole could be pointed at the sun and the other in permanent darkness, much like Uranus, which is a whole other story.

The bottom line is that the moon is soooo important, without it we would almost certainly face extinction as a species and it would happen a lot faster than at the rate we are currently  doing to ourselves  - cheery thought of the day! -  lol

Answer 7

The moon actually controls alot more than we think about. Like our tides for instance. If effects the rotation of the earth, and that could potentially effect our seasons. And it's also a proven fact that more baby animals are born during a full moon than any other time.

Answer 8

On 'the film' Apollo 13, there was hint of a projectile launched from 'the moon' that damaged the lander.  On the actual Apollo 13, the craft, there was a nuclear device that it was intended would be exploded on the moon's surface.  Not too many people picked up on the fact that the Apollo 13 ship was 'shot down' by a projectile launched from the moon, even though that fact was clearly indicated on the film.  It is also detailed quite clearly in books.  What you suggest was tried once before and was prevented from happening.

Why would anybody do what you say anyway?  This planet is in a mess, why waste so much resouces blowing up the moon?  What has the moon ever done to you?

Answer 9

Enough already with serious answers.

Let's use a bit of imagination.

I think its a great idea.

Instead at looking at the "man in the moon", we'd be gazing up at a Polo mint.

Answer 10

What about the poor little Clangers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HArUmqqiL...

Answer 11

now, clearly filling something with atomic bombs isnt going to explode......

Answer 12

Yes.

And we will all drown! But fish, dolphins and anything in the sea will be okay!

Oh, hang on, no gravitational pull from the moon, so they might float off into space!

Answer 13

The gravitational binding energy of an object can be found by the formula U=3GM^2/5R, where G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the object, and R is the radius of the object. For the Moon, this gives us about 1.248*10^29 joules (that's 124 832 649 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 joules). The most powerful nuclear weapon every built had a maximum yield of about 4.184*10^17 joules. This means that it would take approximately 300 billion such bombs to overcome the gravitational binding energy of the Moon. In reality the number would be somewhat smaller because we aren't overcoming the total gravitational binding energy. However, one million of the biggest nuclear bombs humans have ever built would still fall short of the required energy by something on the scale of a hundred thousand times. I doubt that the detonation of your one million bombs would be enough to cause any easily visible change on the Moon's surface (assuming they were detonated right at the middle), and there would probably be essentially no effect on the Earth or human life.

Answer 14

Well...

When they exploded, the hole would act like a huge directional thruster and would push the moon out of the orbit of the Earth and off into deep space and Commander Koenig and his Moonbase Alpha team would be doomed to forever wander the galaxy, looking for a way to get home...

Answer 15

pretty much the hole we would make wouldn't be very large without some serious investing in machinery.  when we set off the bombs, we would not explode the moon into small pieces but create a large creator.  The debris might fall to the earth and have some impact.  If we could somehow explode the moon, then we would see some slight differences in our orbit around the sun and with our own orbit around our poles.  Our seasons would get longer, and virtually only small places around the world would be habitable.  it wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would make it a terriable place to live.

Answer 16

Hmmmm...

Hydrogen bombs are what fuel the sun and are in the order of 500 times stronger than the atomic bombs if I am correct. I don't care to do the math (not that it would matter as I would think predicting what would happen would require one of the more powerful computers in the world), but I doubt even a million bombs would blow it apart. All the bombs on Earth wouldn't be enough. Mankind is just a sneezed up ball of snot in comparison to magnitudes of celestial bodies like planets.

Even if we did have enough bombs put directly in the center of the moon to blow it up tides would be the least of our worries. If even 0.001% of the 7.36 × 10^22 kilograms fell to Earth mankind would be doomed. That much debris would  envelope the Earth in dust, crack the tectonic plates, and pump enough gasses from within the Earth into the atmosphere to make the air poison... And I would expect a large portion of the moon would come down to Earth and continue raining down onto the surface for millions of years until the debris settles into a New Moon... It was a major plot point in The Time Machine movie (2002).

Answer 17

I don't think a million atomic bombs would be enough to blow it up completely. That would make a big crater, and I have not done any calculations, but my feeling is it would take more than a million. Maybe a billion would do it. If we did blow up the Moon, some of the fragments would hit Earth, and possibly some would be big enough to cause serious damage. After that, lack of a Moon would mean no more ocean tides, which would have a very negative effect on sea life. Land life would be less disturbed, but I bet there would be some minor (compared to sea life) disturbances that would be hard to predict.

Answer 18

Have you watched that film where they try and destroy the comet about to hit the Earth? I think you'd enjoy it immensely.

Answer 19

If the million atomic bombs were not all the same place on the moon, but were placed at strategic points throughout the moon, then yes it would explode into (relatively) small pieces.

It would affect the earth in numerous ways, the main concern would be fragments of the moon hitting the earth (practically a certainty due to the proximity of the moon to the earth and the gravitational pull of the earth), and killing people, creating dust storms or craters, or causing fires. Also if these fragments were big enough, they could 'bump' the earth out of orbit slightly which would cause it to either spin off into space or into the sun., although its unlikely that the fragments would be big enough to do that.

Other effects would include, either no tides or erratic tidal behaviour (as they're dictated by the moons gravitational pull), and a slight decrease in the amount of light to reach earth at night, i.e. moonlight. as this is caused by the sun's light reflecting off the moon.

There would be other effects but they are the main ones. Hope this helped.

p.s. I wouldn't advise blowing up the moon btw, and i'm quite concerned that it came into your head lol.

Answer 20

Ys it would probably explode into billions of peices and make an orbitting ring around the Earth like Saturn which over the course of millions of years would either stay a ring or accrete into a new moon. During this process, Earths gravitational pull would attract some of the debris which most of which would burn up in our atmosphere. This process would result the "New Moon" being a lot smaller than at present with various different consiquences on the Earths characteristics.

Now to the second part of your question. It wouls effect us massively. To explain this I need to explain what the moon is. In Earths early life in the solar system our planet colloided with another and the resulting debris coallessed into the moon. It was a glancing blow and sent us spinning on our axis (hence the seasons) Its gravitational pull keeps our axis steady and stops us wobbling. If we had a wobble it would mean weather like we have never had before. So bad that human life could not survive and also the sea would calm and kill most of the sea life too. I think about this quite a lot!

Answer 21

Why would U desire to destroy the moon and not have an idea of what it would do..Our moon is first our meteor deflector. U can tell some big craters up there that could of been down here...

Answer 22

How are we going to get all the drilling equipment and 1m bombs on the moon? Do you realize what that would cost? And for why?...........To destroy the earth as we know it......come on.....you're kidding us....er!.....aint you?

Answer 23

OK, Ill start with the assumption that the moon has vanished and not get upset with the blowing up the moon aslect of things that has got the other answerers flustered.

The moon affects the tides.

Without the tides then marine life would die off - there would be very little water moving about in the oceans, the nutrients wouldnt get stired up and apart from a few very fertile areas around the mouths of rivers, the rest of the ocean would die.

There would be no natural cleaning of the beaches - they would get polluted with dead marine life.

No tides and there would be no warm currents of water travelling away from the equators. These currents keep the climate mild in the north (within a distance from the sea), and the winters and summers would get colder and warmer. The polar regions would expand. Witrhout these currents nutrients in the ocean wouldnt travel to the poles and life that depends on the sea would die, for example, penguins, and polar bears would all die.

So thats the sea.

I think the moon affects the winds. Without wind the air would get stale and polluted, things would die.

The moonhas a magnetic effect on the earth, animals that rely on megentism for direction would get lost and their migration patterns would be effected.

Basically, the moon effects an awfull lot of life on earth from a few simple things - the tides, and without that simple thing happening, the knock on effect is huge

Answer 24

The biggest assumption here is that if we had no moon then the lack of tidal force exerted would cause 'rivers and oceans' to become stagnant

               ! I think this is probably enough ignorance to let you know that your excellent hypothetical question has not as yet been answered by any really capable minds (mine included) I would think that GREEN has had the best shout so far.

   The movement of water across the planets surface is due mainly to weather conditions created by conditions on earth, these being

1) The planets ability to radiate electromagnetic radiation through its mass and composition.

2) The planets Atmospheric composition and its ability to absorb/emit/radiate electromagnetic radiation both from the earth's mass/composition and to a much greater extent the solar radiation received from the sun.

3) Tectonic behaviour, leading to weather patterns across the globe.

4) The carbon cycle, the water cycle and countless other earthly cycles that drive weather patterns and as such the movement of heat, minerals,gasses, solids and other contributing factors leading to earthly weather conditions which in turn help to drive the movement of oxygen, minerals carbon etc through the oceans making them living breathing oceans capable of functioning without the aid of tidal movements seemingly reported here as the key element in marine life!

5) Rivers would continue to flow from areas of high ground to low ground (or from zones of high pressure to low pressure) regardless of the moons gravitational pull

6)The earth would adjust its axis and as a result weather patterns would change, but as all other planets in the solar system have so would the earth settle into a new moon free orbit of the sun. Being (on a planetary scale) a spherical object with no known weight bias it would have no choice but to be dragged into such an outcome.

Excellent question and sorry I could not give an answer to it, but I just felt that it deserved to have some of the junk debunked in the answers so as to help you make a more informed conclusion in your own mind!

Answer 25

well , seriously big pieces will fall into our atmosphere, no doubt. and will cause another " dinosaur extinction  "

the life on earth will be seriously affected by a "nuclear winter" after that

dont bother, life will remain, men will not, another marsupial will emerge into men after another 67 million years

Answer 26

mmm...no moon implies no earth !!

besides think abt the pieces that are gonna hit the earth and other planets thus causing those planets to break too..

that would be messed up :s

must be a movie :D

Answer 27

I once calculated that if we took the entire arsenal of atomic bombs PLUS whatever bombs could be made from fissile material available on Earth, then

IF we could get all that energy to go exclusively into removing material from the Moon (bringing it to Moon's escape velocity),

then we could blast off a layer of at most 4 feet (a tiny bit more than 1 metre) from the Moon.

This would hardly show on the Moon's size and influence.

However, it would send lots of large pieces of rock into our atmosphere.  The amount of energy that they dissipate into the atmosphere would probably jeopardize all life on Earth (not just human).  Plus some of the pieces would actually hit the surface and cause physical damage (as a bonus).

"Luckily", nuclear weapons are very inefficient in that they only get less than about 4% of the energy available (very little of the fissile material has time to react before the bomb itself is blown apart by its own explosion).  Also a lot of the energy would be "wasted" into pulverizing rocks into powder, and in digging hole through the Moon's material.

Very little material would be blown clear of the Moon.  Most of the blown material would fall back on the Moon.  The Moon itself (as a body) would not be affected (no cracks going down to the core, or anything like that).

Answer 28

If you bomb was big enough just to shatter the moon, one h**l of a lot of it would hit the earth, wiping out all life. If it was even bigger, enough to almost vaporise it, the dust would envelope the earth, wipe out all life once again.

Are you so anti-life?

Answer 29

That would an absolute disaster, the moon controls the tides on earth and with out any tide the the rivers and seas and oceans would become stagnant.

Also the moon affects our behaviour patterns, how would you work out when to have Easter, the moon affects us in so many ways

There would be no more eclipse of the sun  no natural light at night, no more romantic moon light, all the songs with moon in them would have to rewritten

Answer 30

The earth has more then one moon!!

Which moon are we talking about here? the Moon or Cruithne?

Answer 31

It wouldn't brake up into small peaces, it would have some sizable chunks to it  witch could hit the earth and wipe us out. If they don't then the peaces would clump back together due to the gravitational forces each chunk will have on each other depending on how powerful the explosion would be. but as far as the effects on earth go, there would be large meteor showers, the tides would become unpredictable and the whether would become extreme world wide. So its not a good idea to blow up the moon =)