Alexander Abian

[noufalibrahim]

Destruction of the Moon is too complicated and large to execute so we can have theoretical discussions about it. We can, calmly, come up with second order effects and dismiss things etc.

However, there are smaller "nature modifications" like cloud seeding where I'm not sure such discussions happen and lots of people more or less blindly march into these. That, to me, is scary.

[shiandow]

I am partial to a project to keep the moon from drifting away. Mostly because I like eclipses and want them to stick around for a while longer.

Otherwise I'm happy with the moon staying where it is.

[pliftkl]

I didn't really remember the "blow up the moon", but he sure posted a lot about "Time has Inertia" on sci.physics.

[josefrichter]

"Abian proposed blowing up the moon with nuclear weapons. He reasoned that a moonless Earth wouldn't wobble; thus the seasons would be eliminated, as would extremes in weather, such as giant hurricanes, heat waves and blizzards." :-)

[jajko]

We would lose tides, although I have no clue what that would cause.

But thats irrelevant, blowing up Moon means bits of Moon bigger than Britain would bombard Earth and wipe us all out, thats probably the only way to sterilize whole Earth before Sun does it with its expansion. Earth's crust could very well stop existing in its current form and mix with mantle in some brutal apocalyptic scenes that would make Michael Bay's stuff look like cave paintings from 40k years ago.

[skywal_l]

Unrelated but reminded me of this good sci-fi book "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson.

[tetris11]

Wrong idea for the right reasons?

[andybp85]

I definitely did not see that coming lol

[aaron695]

Talk of his death - https://groups.google.com/g/sci.astro.amateur/c/bC-7G4L8_HU/... including a discussion on how disruptive he was

He was posting until 9 days previous to his death - https://groups.google.com/g/sci.physics/search?q=abian%40ias...

I forgot about kill files - https://groups.google.com/g/sci.physics.particle/c/465iRYWZu...