(August 20, 2017 at 8:14 pm)chimp3 Wrote:Hopefully not Evansville.(August 20, 2017 at 11:37 am)Jehanne Wrote: 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.
"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.
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