What If the Moon Crashed Into Earth — And You Were There?

At midnight, the Moon stops orbiting and starts to fall. Physics gives you exactly 4 days, 19 hours and 36 minutes — and you get to live every one of them in first person. You'll walk the seafront the night the alert goes off, outrun the first monster tide, climb a skyscraper as the city floods, flee the ground itself as it rises and splits, race up a mountain while volcanoes wake and the Moon breaks apart overhead… and then watch from orbit as Earth swallows the Moon, rains rock, then water, and wakes up without it. Every number is real: free-fall time, tidal force growing with the cube of the distance, the Roche limit, and an impact ten million times bigger than the one that killed the dinosaurs. CHAPTERS 0:00 Midnight: the Moon starts falling 1:17 The strange days 2:48 21 hours left 3:49 6.5 hours left 4:51 1 hour 27 minutes left 6:03 The Roche limit 6:58 Impact 7:44 What's left of Earth 8:28 Where our Moon came from Which hiding place would YOU have picked? Tell me in the comments. Subscribe to live the next disaster in first person. Credits: 3D assets by Kenney (CC0) · Moon maps: NASA LRO / LROC (public domain) · Arms: Microsoft Rocketbox (MIT) #moon #whatif #firstperson