shattered moon

[NomadicSky]

At the dawn of the year 1950 right as midnight strikes in the first of earth and 1950 is born in a flash (much like a camera flash no em side effects)
our moon is repalced by a shattered moon almost an asteroid field except stable (for now at least)
it's been more than 50 years since the "new" moon appeared
has our culture changed much from otl by 2006

[jolo]

Great pic.

We'd definitely have much more space activity. The asteroids of the moon would be a great source of lots of material for space activities.

[NomadicSky]

So you think we'd still try and visit the moon
Whould that happen about the same time as it did in otl or would people be freaking out over the loss and the effect on our tides so much that exploration/probes would come later

[Straha]

The UN is MUCH stronger and has teeth. We've got bases on the moonshards, on mars and are working on the moons of jupiter.

[chunkeymonkey13q]

After an initial buzz of exploration, things quiet down once more. By today, I doubt if we'd have established permanent bases in space.

[The Sandman]

The disappearance or altering of tides certainly won't help the planetary situation. Neither will the occasional large meteorite strike as Earth's gravity steadily pulls in this new ring system. Probably see a declaration of war against ASBs, to be carried out whenever we find them.

[NomadicSky]

That moon came from the movie "the time machine 2001" after it had been broken apart thousands of years had passed the moon shards were in a stable orbit

[jolo]

So you think we'd still try and visit the moon
Whould that happen about the same time as it did in otl or would people be freaking out over the loss and the effect on our tides so much that exploration/probes would come later

If all or nearly all the moons mass stayed in a confined space, the tides would be pretty similar (maybe a very slight softening).

The visits would mainly be to make sure we can track all those pieces, to mine the ones in an unstable orbit, to get to the ressources, and because it's now much easier to land there and come back - if a country can build a space module, it can also handle a lunar landing.

[Leej]

I don't know, we may be further along then in the future.
All of these rocks...The military on both sides may see potential there, plenty of places to hide. Also some may be closer to Earth then the regular moon.

The time machine 2001 eh....Never heard of it. Any relation to the normal the time machine?

[NomadicSky]

Well was kind of a dull movie with some major flaws but good special effects
link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/) and it was made in 2001 and was scheduled or release in December of 2001 but the movie has scenes with New York being destroyed producers weren't sure if the movie should be released so close to 9-11 with those scenes in it

[chunkeymonkey13q]

The special effects made it interesting, although in my opinion, they edited the story to much...

[Redem]

Sinatra no longer sing "fly me to the moon" and that's just plain wrong.