HOW TO SAVE HUMANITY FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONTINUALLY INCREASING THE DISTANCE FROM THE MOON IN RELATION TO EARTH

Fernando Alcoforado*

This text is a summary of the article, published on various websites in Brazil and abroad in Portuguese, English and French, which aims to present possible strategies to save humanity from the catastrophic consequences related to the continuous increase in the distance from the Moon to Earth. Earth and Moon are united by a strong gravitational bond and affect each other. This gravitational connection started from the collision between the planet Earth and a Mars-sized body, called Theia, approximately 4.5 billion years ago when our planet was still in formation and it was a big hot, pasty ball, creating a large ring of fragments around the Earth that then formed the Moon. When Theia hit the Earth at a speed of 40,000 kilometers per hour, the impact was sufficient to vaporize this planet when a substantial part of its ferrous core sank into Earth and integrated to the Earth’s core. The remaining material was designed for the space whose wreckage gave rise to the Moon. The distancing of the Moon from the Earth will impact on life on the planet because the Earth and the Moon form a unique system.

The main consequences of the continuous increase in the distance of the Moon in relation to Earth would be: 1) the disappearance of the tidal phenomenon; 2) the end of the stability of the Earth’s axis of rotation; 3) the end of many terrestrial species and plants; and, 4) drastic and global climatic changes resulting from the disappearance of the tides and the destabilization of the Earth’s axis of rotation. The disappearance of the tidal phenomenon resulting from the Moon’s gravity would lead to the weakening of ocean currents whose waters would tend to stagnate. The shores of the seas would lose their drainage and natural cleaning system due to the advance and retreat of the waters. Ocean water would tend to redistribute itself, taking the course of the poles, and the sea level would rise in the coasts. The consequence of all this would be a drastic change in the Earth’s climate. Global climate change could produce summers with temperatures that exceed 100 degrees Celsius, and winters with temperatures below minus 80 degrees Celsius. In the most extreme case, the terrestrial rotation axis could align directly in the direction of the Sun, which would cause areas of the planet to be under permanent sunlight and others, in permanent darkness. The huge thermal differences between one half and the other of the Earth would cause extreme winds, with a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour and other dramatic meteorological phenomena.

In order to deal with the problem related to the continuous increase in the distance of the Moon in relation to Earth and its catastrophic consequences, it is very important that there are several teams of astronomers around the world dedicated to detecting and monitoring the continuous increase in the distance of the Moon in relation to Earth to measure its consequences aiming at the adoption of measures that progressively mitigate their negative impacts and point out, in extreme cases, the need to plan the flight of human beings to the most viable habitable places in the solar system such as Mars, Titan (Saturn’s moon) and Callisto (moon of Jupiter) in which space colonies would be implanted, all of them with innumerable obstacles that would require great scientific and technological advance to make them feasible.

In addition to the need to adopt strategies to promote scientific and technological advances in order to face the problems related to the  continuous increase in the distance of the Moon in relation to Earth  and its catastrophic consequences, human beings need to be prepared to increase their biological capacity to live outside the Earth and perform space travel within the solar system using scientific and technological resources. The ability of human beings to challenge the limits imposed by nature is absolutely necessary to ensure their survival as a species today and in the future. Immediate and future threats will not be successfully addressed without the advancement of science and technology that is the passport to humanity’s survival. Science and technology, therefore, have to offer a solution for the development of powerful rockets and spaceships that allow the escape of human beings from Earth, when necessary, and the implantation of space colonies in more viable habitable places located in the solar system as Mars, Titan (moon of Saturn) and Callisto (moon of Jupiter), in addition to increasing the biological capacity for humans to live outside the Earth and make space travel within the solar system.

Just as it is important to have a world government to coordinate strategies with national governments to combat chaos in the global economy, environmental degradation and international conflicts, deal with natural disasters of regional and global scope such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, deal with issues related to the collision of bodies coming from outer space, as well as deal with cosmic rays, the same applies in the case of coordinating strategies to deal with the consequences of the continuous increase in the distance of the Moon in relation to Earth. No national government, however powerful it may be, will be able to carry out the herculean task of saving humanity from the threats that exist on planet Earth, as well as those that exist in outer space. In addition, national governments, especially the most powerful, would favor the survival of their populations and not all of humanity. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a world democratic government and a world parliament to carry out the noble task of saving humanity from all internal threats to planet Earth and those existing in outer space.

This same article was published on the same websites listed below in Portuguese with the title COMO SALVAR A HUMANIDADE DAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS DO CONTÍNUO AFASTAMENTO DA LUA EM RELAÇÃO À TERRA and in French with the title COMMENT SAUVER L’HUMANITÉ DES CONSÉQUENCES DE L ‘ AUGMENTATION CONTINUELLE DE LA DISTANCE DE LA LUNE PAR RAPPORT À LA TERRE as we have done with the articles previously published.

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* Fernando Alcoforado, 81, awarded the medal of Engineering Merit of the CONFEA / CREA System, member of the Bahia Academy of Education, engineer and doctor in Territorial Planning and Regional Development by the University of Barcelona, university professor and consultant in the areas of strategic  planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is author of the books Globalização (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova (Des)ordem Mundial (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2000), Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado. Universidade de Barcelona,http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e Desenvolvimento (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX e Objetivos Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of the Economic and Social Development- The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe Planetária (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável- Para o progresso do Brasil e combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2011), Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012), Energia no Mundo e no Brasil- Energia e Mudança Climática Catastrófica no Século XXI (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2015), As Grandes Revoluções Científicas, Econômicas e Sociais que Mudaram o Mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2016), A Invenção de um novo Brasil (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2017),  Esquerda x Direita e a sua convergência (Associação Baiana de Imprensa, Salvador, 2018, em co-autoria) and Como inventar o futuro para mudar o mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2019).