# Let's bring the moon home **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 4, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969 "2003-08-04T21:11:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969/61 "2003-08-07T19:50:26Z")
Well, yeah. But it’s the feakin’ _Moon_, man! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969/62 "2003-08-07T19:54:59Z")
Bah! Atmospheres. When you can move _ **worlds** _ who needs atmospheres. But yeah, I got around 40 too. Mind you, that changes it from about 6300 km to 6340km. Not much to write home about. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969/63 "2003-08-07T22:38:58Z")
The one question that keeps gnawing at my missing tooth (huh?) is: Who would own it? I’m picturing the moon being lowered ever-so-gently down to the middle of the Pacific. So the thing to avoid, at all cost, is a permanent crash of Hawaiian real estate. So what I propose is to balance the moon on three points, namely the summits of Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Haleakala. That should keep it from rolling around too much (until, of course, the lava gets sucked out of the earth, destroying the support, in which case all bets are off). But if we can just keep the moon stabilized, the whole thing would become part of the state of Hawaii (renamed Kalunaluna), making earth-moon surfing the hottest new sport, as the Banzai Pipeline get sucked vertically, and surfers collide with the Sea of Tranquility, only to be flung back down in a perpetual rain of protoplasm, fiberglas and spandex. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969/64 "2003-08-07T22:59:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*_Only_ 42.5 km? So that’s, what, through the troposphere and well into the stratosphere? \*\* It’s not like the atmosphere is going to sit under the new material. If you just want to coat the earth with moon, you could build some linear accelerators on the moon and fling small chunks of the moon at earth, to burn up and become dust. 24 hour meteor showers, and no sattelites left. You could even fling the first portion off in one direction, so that the opposite and equal drops the orbit of the moon. You could make it look bigger and be smaller at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969/65 "2003-08-08T03:42:53Z")
I’ve always thought that poor old Earth was short-changed – what, one lousy moon when Jupiter has so many they’re running out of gods to name them after? So, how about we just chop the moon up, and reshape the pieces? Stick them in varying orbits, of course. And why not use the ‘sawdust’ to create our very own rings, too? Why should Saturn be the only ornamented planet. As for naming the resulting moons, I say go for Corporate sponsors. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969/66 "2003-08-08T04:39:15Z")
Plunking the moon into the Pacific? Luna sea. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@Dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon60)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969/67 "2003-08-08T08:05:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*We need to address the concerns of the Werewolf-American community in our plans. \*\* Why just _American_ werewolves? What about those of us lunalupes from other countries? (there _are_ other countries, you know) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969/68 "2003-08-08T21:45:23Z")
You’re my god, **Manatee**. I’m an atheist, so you now don’t exist, but don’t let that reduce the significance of the compliment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-bring-the-moon-home/192969.md?page=3)