Existential Dread and 13,000 Nukes
i literally lost sleep over this last night
i was falling down a massive late-night research rabbit hole about what would actually happen if we took every single nuclear weapon on earth—all 13,000 of them—and just launched them straight at the moon.
i honestly thought it would be this epic, cinematic explosion that would shatter the moon into a billion pieces. but diving into the actual space tech and orbital physics behind it made me realize how incredibly small we are in this universe.
here is the cold, hard reality that completely shook me:
No sound, no shockwaves: Space is a vacuum. Without an atmosphere, there is no massive fireball. You wouldn't even hear the greatest explosion in human history.
Tiny silent flashes: If you looked up from Earth, our ultimate weapons of mass destruction would just look like little silent camera flashes in the dark.
Just a few new scars: The moon wouldn't shatter. We would just add a couple of tiny scratches to a rock that has been surviving asteroid impacts for billions of years. It would barely even care.
but here is the part that actually sent me into a total panic... ;-;
if the sheer kinetic force of all those blasts shifts the lunar orbit by literally one single millimeter, we are entirely doomed. The moon is the anchor of our oceans. If we alter its path, the tides go completely feral, the climate collapses, and we get dragged into absolute, unavoidable chaos.
it genuinely terrifies me how easily humanity could trigger its own destruction for absolutely nothing. we focus so much on building weapons, but we forget how fragile our cosmic balance actually is. the future isn't fiction, guys, it's being coded right now by our actions.
if you want to join me in this existential crisis, i wrote down all my research and thoughts over on the main site. read the full deep dive here: 👉 Launching 13,000 Nuclear Bombs at the Moon
what do you guys think? if you somehow ended up with the launch codes to all those weapons, knowing that a single millimeter of change could end us all, what would you do to make sure humanity never presses that button? let me know your thoughts in the tags 🥺✨
