"Moon Landing Mission Profiles" by @XKCD comic - How sure can he be that no one thought of that? It's just a bit more difficult to implement! 🌔 xkcd.com/2909/ #astronomy #space #WTF

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@AstroHawk

When the Moon hits your eye /
'Cause it covers the sky /
That's Armageddon.

@cerebrate No no no... The Moon in Low-Earth Orbit wouldn't be Armageddon. That would be in the tsunami tides🌊 that follow closely behind it. 🤔

@AstroHawk

Once we put a thousand-mile radius moon in a below-1,200 mile-altitude orbit? We're gonna have tsunamis in the _rock_.

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