00:00What happens if the moon is hit from every single direction at the exact same time?
00:05As these celestial missiles close the gap, the moon's own gravity becomes its worst enemy.
00:11The closer the asteroids get, the faster they accelerate,
00:14transforming from drifting rocks into kinetic projectiles traveling at 30 times the speed of sound.
00:20To an observer on Earth, the moon would appear to vanish behind a flickering, high-speed veil of incoming debris.
00:26The pressure is so immense that the kinetic energy converts instantly into heat.
00:31In seconds, the moon's surface temperature leaps to over 3,000 degrees Celsius,
00:35turning the moon into a churning global sea of glowing magma.
00:39The moon we know, a cold, dead rock, is gone.
00:43In its place sits a lava moon, a spherical furnace of liquid basalt glowing a violent, angry red in the
00:49darkness of space.
00:50While the moon would eventually cool and solidify, it would be forever changed,
00:54a smooth, glass-like orb stripped of its ancient craters and history.
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