The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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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"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.

Hopefully not Evansville.

[chimp3]

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

Hopefully not Evansville.

No. Just east of Hopkinsville.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Cloud coverage: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/

[Joods]

When is this thing supposed to start?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

When is this thing supposed to start?

Where are you?  https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in.html

[Jackalope]

Morning fog. It seems to be clearing though. It's clear no far from here - but that is in the north edge of totality or outside the umbra altogether.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Traffic good in the St. Louis area. Shaw Nature Reserve is a good target.

[Jackalope]

We're moving east, it's clear 22 miles from here.

[Jackalope]

Haha, it's almost completely clear two miles north from my Dad's place. We're still going to make first landfall.

[Alex K]

We have it live on comfy dinner time TV