Could living on/ mining the moon cause unintended consequences for Earth? e.g. changes in tide or anything else?

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Could living on/ mining the moon cause unintended consequences for Earth? e.g. changes in tide or anything else?

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Like, if we take mass from the moon and move it to earth?

Well, obviously yes. Mathematically any change will impact earth. But the amount of mining that we could physically do would be super unlikely to be enough that we’d actually notice the change. It would be so small as to be undetectable.

Is it theoretically possible to move enough mass given infinite time and fuel? Totally.