Oh Great, Now We Have To Worry About A Potentially Devastating 'Moon Wobble'

[turbinetree]

SCIENCE 07/15/2021 04:53 am ET Updated 11 hours ago

NASA is expecting “dramatic increases in flood numbers” in the nation’s coastal cities.

By Ed Mazza

The moon may look like a peaceful neighbor, but scientists are warning that it may be trying to kill us.

“In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change,” NASA warned in a new report.

Thank the moon’s 18.6-year “wobble” cycle, which has been observed for some 300 years.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/moon-wobble-floods_n_60efc0eae4b0d5140ebc9734

[Kaleva]

1. There was a long thread here at DU about bombing the moon. We might have to do that.

[marie999]

3. Great, let's bomb the moon. What could possibly go wrong?

[Kaleva]

7. Hold my beer while I bomb the moon.

[BradAllison]

5. We could enlist the door buzzard

Just don't touch the butt.

[Kaleva]

6. And eat fried chicken covered with cornflakes while we do it.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. A regular cycle that's been observed for the last 300 years, but suddenly we have to bomb it?

And I'm sure that there's no possibility of unintended consequences if that happens.

[Solly Mack]

2. The moon is a Weeble.

[Ocelot II]

4. I'll just add it to my growing list of things to worry about.

Climate change
GOP gone full Nazi
Covid19 variants
Murder hornets
Volcanoes
Tornadoes
North Korea
Iran
Haiti
Cuba
Russian cyber-attacks
Hurricanes
Tomato hornworms

Aaaand: Moon wobble!