The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!

[chimp3]

How about reducing the inclination of the lunar orbit so he get more eclipses?

Well, the Moon has a mass of 7.34767309 × 10^22 kilograms.  Giving it a "meaningful" acceleration of 0.1 mm/s^2 would require a force equal to:

(7.34767309 × 10^22) * (0.0001) = 7,347,673,090,000,000,000 Newtons, or 7,347,673,090,000,000,000 Joules/meter.

The largest hydrogen bomb (the Tsar bomb) yielded 209,200,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy, or about 2% of the energy that it would take to accelerate the Moon through 1 meter.  Of course, all of that energy would need to be concentrated at a particular point on the Moon's surface and would all need to be converted into the Moon's kinetic energy.

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Things look pretty crappy for Nebraska tomorrow.

"Go East, young man, go East!!"

P.S.  It may be better to go West:



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capi...00abef37f9

I will be on that sweet spot one third of the way between Nashville and St. Louis.