Moon To Explode And Fall Out Of Sky!

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IT’S TRUE!

I mean . . . it’s not scheduled to do that tomorrow or anything, but one day.

Yes, our moon–"Luna" as some people want to call it (though anyone who’s ever lived there just calls it "the Moon")–it’s going to blow up and rain down out of the sky.

You know what they say, "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. They’re always a boom tomorrow"–only the tomorrow in question is a ways down the road, long after all of us should have pushed up all the daisies that we’re going to.

Here’s the idea:

[T]he Moon is being pushed away from Earth by 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) per year and our planet’s rotation is slowing.

If left unabated the Moon would continue in its retreat until it would take bout 47 days to orbit the Earth. Both Earth and Moon would then keep the same faces permanently turned toward one another as Earth’s spin would also have slowed to one rotation every 47 days.

[But billions of years from now . . . ]

The Sun’s mutation into a red giant provides a huge stumbling block to the Moon’s getaway and is likely to ensure the Moon ends its days the way it began; as a ring of Earth-girdling debris.

‘The density and temperature both increase rapidly near the apparent surface (photosphere) of the future giant Sun,’ Willson explained. As the Earth and Moon near this blistering hot region, the drag caused by the Sun’s extended atmosphere will cause the Moon’s orbit to decay. The Moon will swing ever closer to Earth until it reaches a point 11,470 miles (18,470 kilometers) above our planet, a point termed the Roche limit.

‘Reaching the Roche limit means that the gravity holding it [the Moon] together is weaker than the tidal forces acting to pull it apart,’ Willson said.

The Moon will be torn to pieces and every crater, mountain, valley, footprint and flag will be scattered to form a spectacular 23,000-mile-diameter (37,000-kilometer)  Saturn-like ring of debris above Earth’s equator. The new rings will be short-lived. Theory dictates they’ll eventually rain down onto Earth’s surface.

GET THE (EXPLOSIVE!) STORY.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

31 thoughts on “Moon To Explode And Fall Out Of Sky!”

  1. Not to worry,
    We all know that in 1999 the Moon will be blasted out of orbit and Commander Koenig and the rest of Moon Base Alpha drift off to encounter space adventure!
    Wait…that should have already happened.
    Rat fink.

  3. You know what they say, “No boom today. Boom tomorrow. They’re always a boom tomorrow”
    You know what they say… No, I don’t. Source?

  4. These events will bring in the age of Thundar the Barbarian.

    There are two r’s at the end of my name. Thank you.

    No, I don’t. Source?

    Babylon 5. All us barbarians are big fans.

  8. The Sun’s mutation into a red giant provides a huge stumbling block to the Moon’s getaway and is likely to ensure the Moon ends its days the way it began; as a ring of Earth-girdling debris
    Actually, one commonly held theory is that another planet collided with earth and the moon is the debris from that collision.
    http://www.solarviews.com/eng/moonpr1.htm
    http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8550
    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/moonwhack_main_000901.html

  9. I heard,through Zimwaby weekly,that Horshon the great Stevedore will usurp his master,Carbonium’s,tri-regulator and will endeavor to speed up the crytogenious warp displacement of Luna’s post-orbital spectrum.Thus impoverishing its galactical rotary spectrum,and fullfilling Quasi Ambassador Mavisandladys prediction for a much earlier date for the moons tragic retrograde disolution.
    Go with Festron.

  11. These events will bring in the age of Thundar the Barbarian.
    There are two r’s at the end of my name. Thank you.
    LORDS OF LIGHT, Thundarr! You’re a barbarian! I thought you were just too ignorant to know how to spell it correctly!

  12. Minor bangs are required to keep the Big Bang energized!!! Time to start spreading our DNA amongst the galaxies?? Hmmm, any DNA on the Voyagers now exiting the Heliopause??

  14. Rememeber that the celestial bodies and the rest of non-animal creation is governed by angels.
    So no worries.

  16. Yup, we’ve been measuring the distance of the moon for 100 years, and we are going to predict blah, even though the moon existed for millions of years in the past, we are going to make a prediction based on a minuscule amount of time, and predict doom and gloom. We don’t know if there is a natural cycle of the moon moving away and then moving back and whether God intended. We assume that because we are the highest level species on the planet that we are correct in our predictions.
    The arrogance and absurdity must end. Making predictions based on what limited data we’ve been able to gather is ludicrous. It’s like watching 2 seconds of a movie, and predicting the ending. Global Warming, Ozone Holes, Solar Flares, and now the moon. Personally I think God created everything perfectly including man, but of all His creation, only man fell from that perfection, everything else is just as it was since He spoke the words “Let there be light”.

  17. So Greg thinks the material universe is supernaturally eternal and will endure forever. But if even Manimal can be cancelled, then what chance can the rest of the universe have? (Hint: the logic of this statement is sooo apparent, I need only the one rhetorical question.)
    If it were possible to live to see such a day, can you imagine how horrible movies would seem in comparison to the sun exploding and bits of moon smashing into the earth? I mean, talk about your action sequences…

  18. ROFL, I miss Manimal. Anyway, the Universe, this planet, the sun, the stars and the moon, still maintain, I believe the “it was good” status. The bible talks about the end of the earth, and nothing the scientists have come up with even remotely matches. Although in matters of science we can’t take the Bible literally, I believe that consumed by fire means consumed by fire even to the most unscientific person.
    Oh and maybe SciFi will run reruns of Manimal, and Man from Atlantis too.

  19. “No Boom today,boom tomorrow, always boom tomorrow” Susan Ivanova, Babalon 5
    “No jam today, jam tomorrow, always jam tomorrow” the doormouse to Alice at the MAd Hatter’s tea party.
    One thing I love about that show are the many references to great literature.

  20. You know, guys, you really should read the Book of Revelation. If the events described in St. John’s vision have any basis in reality, then this prediction about the Moon exploding might not be as off-base as you might think:

  21. bill912: NO, it’s caused by moonal warming, doubtless itself an effect all those lunar rovers tooling around up there. well, we’ve wrecked another one. Look out Mars, here we come.

  23. I guess if the moon is 240,000 miles from the earth, it isn’t going to get within 11,000 miles and breakup in the next few years or probably the next few centuries.

  24. At least one of you should read Carroll.
    “I’m sure I’ll take you with pleasure!” the Queen said. “Twopence a week, and jam every other day.”
    Alice couldn’t help laughing, as she said, “I don’t want you to hire ME – and I don’t care for jam.”
    “It’s very good jam,” said the Queen.
    “Well, I don’t want any TO-DAY, at any rate.”
    “You couldn’t have it if you DID want it,” the Queen said. “The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day.”
    “It MUST come sometimes to “jam to-day,”” Alice objected.
    “No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every OTHER day: to-day isn’t any OTHER day, you know.”
    “I don’t understand you,” said Alice. “It’s dreadfully confusing!”

  26. Dis is the stupid thing i ever herd but nobody knows when dis is going to happenn. Would u like to explane dis to me?

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