What happening to this Earth if the Moon have float away into deep space?

Answer 1

Tides:
There would still be tides, but they would be about half as noticible without the moon's gravitational influence. The sun's gravitational effect on the tides is about 40% of the moon's. When the sun and moon are ligned up, we have the highest high-tides and the lowest low-tides. That proves the sun contributes to tides.

Ocean currents:
Contrary to some answers I'm seeing here, ocean currents would still flow. It would effect the mixing of cold and warm currents to a small degree, but ocean currents would not stop flowing.

Plant life:
Plants typically have two modes of growth: vegetative and flowering. During vegetative mode they grow up and out. During flowering mode, most of the energy goes into growing it's flowers so it can reproduce. Many plants use the length of uninterrupted darkness ("night") to determine when to start flowering. The moon can interrupt "flowering mode", which tends to make plants grow taller and wider than they would without the light of the full moon. In the moon's absence, plants would tend to be slightly shorter and less massive due to the lack of light-cycle interruption.

Animal life:
Many carnivores tend to hunt at night. The 5 days before and after the full moon give carnivores more light to work with, and improve their chances of finding prey. Without the light of the moon, hunters would have less success and the hunted would have a greater survival rate. Theoretically the number of carnivores would decrease and the number of herbivores would increase, but I'm sure evolution would compensate for this and bring the food chain back into balance.

And yes, without the moon, lunatics could not use the moon as an excuse for their crazy behavior, heh. Good point Bozo!

Answer 2

The moon would be under the gravitational pull of the sun and begin revolving around IT instead of us. At that point, it would behave like an asteroid, hurtling thru space on a near collision with the earth. The velocity and size would be too great to withstand the gentle nuzzling we're planning for Apophis and other smaller asteroids.

Answer 3

Plenty of things will happen when the Moon moves out of Earth Orbit. The tides of the ocean are caused in large part because of the moon. Ocean currents will be affected by this. On the other hand, lunatics will have to blame their craziness on something else besides the Moon because it won't be there.

Answer 4

Almost nothing. At the current rate of floating-awayishness, the earth and its creatures will adapt or die out as environmental changes due to the moon occur. But if it suddenly, this minute teleported to deep space, I probly woudnt be typing right now... Seriously

Answer 5

well for one thing, the moon just cant float away from the earth. it would have to be knocked away from earth by a comet or something like that...and i doubt that thats gonna happen anytime soon

Answer 6

If we had no moon the earth would be off of it's axes and wobble..

Note: The moon is moving away at a very very slow rate but never the lest it is moving away.


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Answer 7

Perhaps whatever made the moon float away ,would pull us in too!

Answer 8

Tidal currents would cease, Oceans would clutter up with weed, Air currents would change possibly an ice age.

Answer 9

well one thing the tide wont go in and out and it would be impossible to see at night but we can live without the moon but DIE without the sun cherio hope this helps

Answer 10

I don't think I'd really want to be around. A lot of the other intelligent answers seem to have got it in a nutshell. Sorry wolfman, your time will come.