00:00Without the Moon, Earth would not just lose its tides, it would lose its mind.
00:05The Moon holds Earth's axial tilt, steady at 23.5 degrees.
00:10That tilt is what gives us stable seasons.
00:13Without the Moon, the tilt would wander chaotically,
00:17swinging between a frozen world and a baked one with no pattern.
00:20The tides would shrink to almost nothing.
00:23The vast tidal zones where life first crawled from ocean onto land would not exist.
00:28Complex life on land may never have begun.
00:32Earth would also spin faster.
00:35Days would be eight hours long.
00:37Winds would reach hundreds of kilometers per hour.
00:41The Moon stabilizes the climate, the seasons, and the conditions that allowed life to evolve on land.
00:48Remove it, and Earth becomes a planet that never had a chance.
00:54That is what the Moon actually does.
00:58What do you think?
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