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What Would Happen If The Earth Suddenly Stopped Spinning?

What if the Earth just... stopped spinning? This video dives into a terrifying thought experiment: what would happen to our planet, our weather, and human life if the Earth's rotation came to a halt, ...

The Moon is Gradually Moving Away from Earth: Possible Future Scenarios

(Related reading: The impacts that gave us the Moon may explain why Earth has life today) ...
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Our Moon Is Drifting Away. Here's What We Can Expect to Happen.

Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its ...
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The Moon Used to Be Much Closer to Earth. It’s Drifting 1.5 Inches Farther From Earth Every Year and It’s Slowly Making Our Days Longer

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

The Moon is getting slightly farther away from the Earth each year − a physicist explains why

Tides come from a difference in gravity across an object. The force of gravity exerted by the Moon is about 4% stronger on the side of Earth that faces toward the Moon, compared to the opposite side ...