What If an Asteroid Cracked the Moon in Half?

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  • Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
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    A giant asteroid is headed our way. But no, it won't hit the Earth. This asteroid is about to slam into the Moon and crack it right in half. What would it be like to witness this epic collision? Would the Moon break clean in two? Or would it shatter into a million pieces? And how could one of these pieces wipe out life here on Earth?
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    00:00 Giant asteroid heading our way
    00:43 The Moon almost exploded?
    02:04 Thanks Omaze!
    03:12 Asteroids falling on the Moon
    06:04 Moon shattered into pieces
    07:24 More drastic consequences
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  • @WhatIfScienceShow
    @WhatIfScienceShow  Рік тому +46

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    • @ItsRed13_Roadto8k
      @ItsRed13_Roadto8k Рік тому +1

      Hey What if, If there was no moon, earth day would be 6-12 hours.. meaning is 4× faster then 1 day and, 1st comment

    • @sansnitizer
      @sansnitizer Рік тому

      Bet I won't win anyways

    • @Boxingbtos7890
      @Boxingbtos7890 Рік тому

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      @fluffycatrsounds7514 Рік тому

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    • @Boxingbtos7890
      @Boxingbtos7890 Рік тому

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  • @khalilahd.
    @khalilahd. Рік тому +286

    Welp this is terrifying 😭. It’s crazy to realize how many things we depend on for sustaining life on this planet

  • @chandrasekharthimmapathrun7459
    @chandrasekharthimmapathrun7459 Рік тому +61

    00:00 Giant asteroid heading our way
    00:43 The Moon almost exploded?
    02:04 Thanks Omaze!
    03:12 Asteroids falling on the Moon
    06:04 Moon shattered into pieces
    07:24 More drastic consequences
    What if suggestion: What if all the planets lost their moons and rings. I watched all your videos. I am a serious what ifer.

    • @Sidewalk.Enforcer
      @Sidewalk.Enforcer Рік тому +1

      Serious Serious what if(er) !

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      @maryann2628 Рік тому

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  • @clvuvfx
    @clvuvfx Рік тому +42

    This channel got me into loving Astronomy way more than I thought it would have! Awesome video by the way, can you please do a video on "What If the Milky Way Was The Only Galaxy In the Universe?" that would be really interesting video to see!! :)

    • @WhatIfScienceShow
      @WhatIfScienceShow  Рік тому +6

      We are lucky to have you! That's a very interesting idea, thank you for sharing it with us. 🙂

    • @devinbaalman
      @devinbaalman Рік тому +1

      You and me both I did not realize there are so many variables for human surivaval

    • @frogman1941
      @frogman1941 Рік тому +1

      On another one of these videos, now i have the munchies to eat gallium.

  • @GojiraWook
    @GojiraWook Рік тому +8

    the meteor would have to be .75 moons, but the meteor would leave a giant crater on the moon, similar to the one that may have made hills on the core of the moon.

  • @ilovepadme3982
    @ilovepadme3982 Рік тому +6

    Dude you give me goosebumps just by imagining it realistically because what if it's​ really going to really happens? Not now not in 3 or 5 yrs but maybe 50 yrs or 100 yrs

  • @Borishal
    @Borishal Рік тому +9

    Scientifically suspect. 45⁰ tilt would cause bigger seasonal swings; hotter summers and colder winters. Ice ages? We have variations in the wobble of the Earth's axis now as model.

    • @NazriB
      @NazriB Рік тому

      Lies again? Half Alien Half Man

  • @creamythroat
    @creamythroat Рік тому +12

    Imagine watching 2 moons smash into each other

  • @riyachakraborty7431
    @riyachakraborty7431 Рік тому +23

    I'm addicted to this channel... You have the perfect voice and the most exciting topics... This is the most epic channel I've ever seen ❤... Keep it up and give ourselves these exciting videos everyday🥺❤🖤

  • @zainabmohamed3030
    @zainabmohamed3030 Рік тому +4

    Sounds scary, but it really good to know all those hypotheses

  • @noel1987o7
    @noel1987o7 Рік тому +7

    I'm still baffled about that how the asteroid will get the momentum required to split The Moon in half @1/6th of G.

  • @teeroo
    @teeroo Рік тому +10

    Another amazing What If, thank you, *What If*

  • @cesarvictorino8624
    @cesarvictorino8624 Рік тому +9

    What if earths most infamous past conquers were brought back during modern times?

    • @itachi1165
      @itachi1165 Рік тому +1

      A gun would gid rid of most

  • @TheOrigamiGenius
    @TheOrigamiGenius Рік тому +6

    What if always makes us imagine things that would destroy earth but they can’t happen

  • @ItsRed13_Roadto8k
    @ItsRed13_Roadto8k Рік тому +24

    As a UA-cam creator myself.. I can really appreciate the amount of work What If puts into his videos!! Respect man!! 👊🔥

    • @razeen14
      @razeen14 Рік тому

      They r a company

    • @lemoneer7474
      @lemoneer7474 Рік тому +1

      Didn’t you say the same thing on two different videos?

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      @Ryusakiiii Рік тому

      @@lemoneer7474 they are just spammers

    • @WhatIfScienceShow
      @WhatIfScienceShow  Рік тому +1

      Thank you, we appreciate your support!

    • @thetree6481
      @thetree6481 Рік тому

      @@WhatIfScienceShow hi

  • @swatgang8113
    @swatgang8113 Рік тому +4

    Another amazing What if, Thank you What if.

  • @shruti7908
    @shruti7908 Рік тому +58

    'What if' never disappoints us. They always gives us quality videos.

  • @endofsociety
    @endofsociety Рік тому +2

    I had a terrifying dream about this exact thing years ago.

  • @kyouma1621
    @kyouma1621 Рік тому +3

    Reminds me of Naruto the last when
    Toneri Splits the Moon in half

  • @elrodriguez5912
    @elrodriguez5912 Рік тому +4

    Ur videos make alot of sence omg I can't stop watching them 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @mayengbamluwang1804
      @mayengbamluwang1804 Рік тому

      👁

    • @MrAce2000
      @MrAce2000 Рік тому

      Except for the part how he said biggest chunks wouldn't make that much of an impact yeah I severely beg to differ.

  • @Faradayyyyy
    @Faradayyyyy Рік тому +2

    everyone talks about how a scattered moon could potentially destroy earth, but no one talks about how the moon took a bullet for the earth🥲

  • @yeezuscrust9630
    @yeezuscrust9630 Рік тому +9

    can you do
    “ what if all of earth was land “
    now that would be interesting 🧐

  • @Jdowling357
    @Jdowling357 Рік тому +1

    That Shelby replica is dope!

  • @jcudapanas4053
    @jcudapanas4053 Рік тому +10

    Please make: What If the Earth’s Gravity reduced to half.

  • @rialvita7141
    @rialvita7141 Рік тому +10

    What if the moon was a second Earth, could both planets live without colliding?

    • @jeffgillson
      @jeffgillson Рік тому +2

      If they were gravitationally locked and orbiting eachother at the exact right speed and distance, then... Yes..
      But, that would change everything you know about earth , like for example, instead of 1-2 meter waves on the coast, we would have tsunamis ALL THE TIME. Waves could be hundreds of meters or even km high, high and low tides would cover significant spans of distance, possibly submerging entire continents.
      Gravity itself might be effected, winds could get out of control, seasons would probably be significantly different, and most if not all life (if there even was life) would have to adapt to the completely different circumstances. It would be highly unlikely there would be intelligent life as the planet would be extremely violent... Basically natural disasters of unimaginable proportions would be standard every day weather - earthquakes literally off the Richter scale*, tsunamis, hurricanes, blizzards, volcanoes exploding 24/7*
      * There would be no "Richter scale" as there would be no Richter
      *24/7 would be meaningless as "hours" "days" and "weeks" would be different amounts of time, and there would be no humans to measure time anyway

  • @phillipgathright8001
    @phillipgathright8001 Рік тому +1

    The old Hanna-Barbara cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian opened with a rogue planet passing between the Earth and the Moon, causing our satellite not to split in two but break into many large pieces. And these pieces stayed in orbit, giving the Earth many smaller moons.

    • @ljhed
      @ljhed Місяць тому

      A very good documentary

  • @norwegianla4982
    @norwegianla4982 Рік тому +4

    What if we live on an inside-out globe with the sun and planets in the middle😂

  • @viktorreznov635
    @viktorreznov635 Рік тому +1

    Sagittarius A* , abbreviated SGR A* is the supermassive blackhole at the galactic center of the milky way. It is the located near the border of constellation of sagittarius and scorpius, about 5.6 south of the ecliptic, visually close to the butterfly cluster and the lambda scorpii.

  • @_UglyEmu
    @_UglyEmu Рік тому

    Seveneves is a pretty cool book somewhat dealing with this question

  • @shellygarden1854
    @shellygarden1854 Рік тому

    Here I was thinking okay this would be okay….naaaaah you came into this conversation with the twist at the end 😫

  • @gabrielkharther1555
    @gabrielkharther1555 Рік тому +2

    NO VIEWS yet but 24 comments? I don’t understand

  • @legionsofmarduk
    @legionsofmarduk Рік тому +1

    The book Seveneves is based on this happening and what humanity would do. Really good book.

    • @Diyel
      @Diyel Рік тому

      It is my favorite scifi book so far!

  •  Рік тому +2

    You missed what would happen to the Earth’s rotation due to the law of conservation of angular momentum. Absent the Moon, Earth’s rotation would accelerate, wreaking havoc on plate tectonics, the atmosphere, and everything in between. It would be a very bad day.

  • @0w0y
    @0w0y Рік тому +2

    Every scenario with What If would cause a world apocalypse

    • @Ragnarok182
      @Ragnarok182 Рік тому +1

      But, we love the apocalypse and destruction theories, until they actually happen that is.

  • @long_story_shot
    @long_story_shot Рік тому

    What if "What if" was deleted from UA-cam?
    This could be a great relief as every video of what if implants a new wierd fear of death into my mind.

  • @jeanettebrown7769
    @jeanettebrown7769 Рік тому +4

    What if there was no moon

  • @rishabhpanchal5243
    @rishabhpanchal5243 Рік тому +2

    6:06 pause it.....what if ...there is a mistake ......see...we got 2 suns also 🤣

  • @helpmereach7ksubswithoutan523
    @helpmereach7ksubswithoutan523 Рік тому +2

    This is super terrifying thinking that this stuff could happen by just the moon cracking!

  • @fahimredwan
    @fahimredwan Рік тому +1

    Love what if videos

  • @heroknaderi
    @heroknaderi Рік тому +1

    Interesting and another what if video. What If an asteroid hiit Mars

  • @bat_man8
    @bat_man8 Рік тому +5

    Really special and creative content videos,that too science fiction videos means it's heaven 💥👌🏻Fan from INDIA 😎

  • @txma.
    @txma. 9 місяців тому

    Theoretically, under circumstances where the moon being shattered doesn't affect our oceans and wind, Earth could have it's own "ring" of ex-moon asteroid fragments

  • @mikeburkhart8336
    @mikeburkhart8336 Рік тому

    It would be one big mess,and it's all heading for us....been nice knowing you.

  • @abowser7106
    @abowser7106 Рік тому +4

    This a great video!

  • @pimenel
    @pimenel Рік тому

    Dang. Got it stuck in my head this one is being read like a car commercial... but the script is for moon smashing

  • @zhraaalsodani1418
    @zhraaalsodani1418 Рік тому

    Amazing video!

  • @phil1353
    @phil1353 Рік тому +1

    We are truly aligned

  • @penelopegreene
    @penelopegreene Рік тому

    Subbing on the strength of that weird-ass opening cgi. It's like coming home...

  • @xayvier5358
    @xayvier5358 Рік тому +1

    Dude really making me wnna do the unthinkable and move to the north and south pole just in case this actually happened

  • @swagchad3006
    @swagchad3006 2 місяці тому +1

    well there’d be no more waterbending

  • @fxf_playz
    @fxf_playz Рік тому

    I had a nightmare today,My mother called me and said "Look at that Alan".Then I said "wait is that an aster" then the moon hit the Moon, And EAS alarms start to ring loudly and Asteroid started hitting and it was Bright,Then I began to Pray,Thankfully I woke up!

  • @xxx-dy2mh
    @xxx-dy2mh Рік тому

    “What if ceres grows a size like moon and replaces moon?” Would be really cool!

  • @lindseychartier511
    @lindseychartier511 Рік тому

    Can we all appreciate what if for giving us all free content for our enjoyment 😉
    Daily watcher from 🇨🇦

  • @NotBrayDaGamerYT3001
    @NotBrayDaGamerYT3001 Рік тому

    I just hope this stays as a What if. Instead of becoming real

  • @anttileppanen-dp1gf
    @anttileppanen-dp1gf 3 місяці тому

    When it comes. You see.. you need to call your friends and take them to a good place to see it and hold hands and scream

  • @markopaolomalabanan2948
    @markopaolomalabanan2948 Рік тому

    When a Asteroid breaks moon we will all die without moon

  • @stevej9740
    @stevej9740 Місяць тому

    This scenario assumes the object would hit the moon in line with the earth. This seems very unlikely. Most of the debris would probably not shatter toward earth, but off in some other direction, possibly leaving our orbit.

  • @AgentFearX
    @AgentFearX Рік тому

    I just had a terrible dream about this, and I literly cried during my dream, it felt so real.

  • @lolitahaze02
    @lolitahaze02 Рік тому +1

    Now I understand what the books meant by "splitting of the moon"

    • @Ujick46
      @Ujick46 Рік тому

      Yes, that events maybe just illusion..

    • @helldvl
      @helldvl Рік тому

      @Ujick46 actually, an article published by "Brown University" suggested that the moon was actually almost split in half from the farside of it

  • @ebonywheldon9793
    @ebonywheldon9793 Рік тому +1

    Largest thing in asteroid belt is Ceres.

  • @general5475
    @general5475 Рік тому +6

    Schools Would Still be Open

  • @shaibi9659
    @shaibi9659 Рік тому

    Can you do what if it stop raining?
    Big fan btw

  • @hariskhan01
    @hariskhan01 Рік тому +1

    Its honestly amazing how I clicked the video and its showed no views and 319 likes.

  • @user-ki8xl9io6z
    @user-ki8xl9io6z Рік тому

    crazy I was born in 2013 and so much stuff in space happenes in that year

  • @liamdamielmacatulad7809
    @liamdamielmacatulad7809 Рік тому +1

    2:04 do no thanks omaze

  • @99deys
    @99deys Рік тому

    More space videos please

  • @fraz5786
    @fraz5786 Рік тому

    0:49: *says it was a beautiful summer night in England*
    *immediately shows Edinburgh Castle, Scotland*

  • @kayakMike1000
    @kayakMike1000 Рік тому

    The idea you could crack the moon into two pieces is ridiculous. Hitting the moon with a large asteroid with enough energy to overcome the gravity that holds the moon together would liquify the majority of the rock from both objects.

  • @KBTcraze
    @KBTcraze Рік тому

    This narration reminds me of a show that would air many years ago called MANswers lol

  • @BOSS-vc8pe
    @BOSS-vc8pe Рік тому

    It's amazing after 35 minutes UA-cam still showing no views

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz2964 Рік тому +1

    Nice video.

  • @ramonmacias9013
    @ramonmacias9013 Рік тому

    We already saw a simulation of this in the 1970s on Saturday morning cartoons "Thundar the Barbarian"

  • @radioboyintj
    @radioboyintj Рік тому

    A good start

  • @infinitelysimple9480
    @infinitelysimple9480 Рік тому +1

    And we could never escape because of the billions of pieces of moon orbiting the earth

  • @Saedris
    @Saedris Рік тому

    had a dream about a second moon appearing and crashing into the original moon, causing widespread disasters

  • @carltonlaclair2360
    @carltonlaclair2360 Рік тому

    That would have to be one hell of an asteroid, not likely, think about it.

  • @Bombakchlat
    @Bombakchlat Рік тому

    Them : “was about to crack the moon open”
    The moon already crack : am i a joke to u

  • @sisfantasto7004
    @sisfantasto7004 Рік тому

    No life on earth without moon full stop. No discussion neccessary.

  • @lv0ry
    @lv0ry Рік тому +2

    nice vid

  • @alien4224
    @alien4224 Рік тому +1

    Ad ends in 3:12 lol people probably gonna skip the ad💀🤣

  • @Diyel
    @Diyel Рік тому

    This is basically the plot of the sci-fi novel Seveneves!

  • @presidentnoob3185
    @presidentnoob3185 Рік тому

    This is worse than eggman pissing on the moon

  • @tomflake1486
    @tomflake1486 Рік тому

    This is how we got Thundar the barbarian.

  • @DimSum9685
    @DimSum9685 Рік тому

    I'm about to be old-school. This has Thundarr The Barbarian written all over it.

  • @russell5078084
    @russell5078084 Рік тому +1

    But What IF the moon is made of green cheese?

  • @UnbotheredAhmad
    @UnbotheredAhmad Рік тому

    I could really smoke a “moonrock” 😂

  • @williamsanders2439
    @williamsanders2439 Рік тому

    Actually a plot scenario for the novel Seveneves...

  • @gianlucaruggeri2454
    @gianlucaruggeri2454 Рік тому

    Can you do a what if there was no such thing as pollution?

  • @nanthakumar1878
    @nanthakumar1878 Рік тому

    The greatest pessimist to whom I am a big fan

  • @okidokidraws
    @okidokidraws Рік тому

    It'd basically just be the same as a asteroid but bigger

  • @sabinaenayet4532
    @sabinaenayet4532 Рік тому

    earth is nothing without moon. I love you moon. please don't ever disappear 🥺

  • @Delores999
    @Delores999 Рік тому +1

    I like this

  • @VeryRandomChannel
    @VeryRandomChannel Рік тому +2

    *No views, but 66 comments? UA-cam’s drunk again.*

  • @bestlogistics5710
    @bestlogistics5710 Рік тому

    what if a moon changed into a black hole im waiting for this topic

  • @Igor39K
    @Igor39K Рік тому

    So... there wouldn't be any rings in result from that event?

  • @elel4284
    @elel4284 9 місяців тому

    we would just have alot of asteroids floating around and eventually going away

  • @swat2187
    @swat2187 Рік тому

    03:16 hell yeah!!!

  • @bishwadeepmukherjee8117
    @bishwadeepmukherjee8117 Рік тому +3

    What if our technology becomes super advanced and then we destroyed every asteroid and meteorites.

  • @xander5123serrano
    @xander5123serrano Рік тому +1

    Big fan

  • @deepaksanjeevan3574
    @deepaksanjeevan3574 Рік тому +1

    Vanakam da mapla ..chennai la irunthu 🍻