Another excellent what-if article, this time imagining if the Moon were much much closer.

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Another excellent what-if article, this time imagining if the Moon were much much closer. If you missed the one last week about Saturn follow the links to see that video too.

Originally shared by Philip Plait (The Bad Astronomer)

What if you replaced the ISS with the Moon?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/19/close_encounter_what_if_the_moon_orbited_much_closer_to_earth.html

It would be an awesome spectacle, but you’d be too dead to enjoy it.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/19/close_encounter_what_if_the_moon_orbited_much_closer_to_earth.html