Could living on/ mining the moon cause unintended consequences for Earth? e.g. changes in tide or anything else?
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Likely not. At least to a functional level. *Technically* any removal of mass would *technically* change the interaction but at the scale of tides, not a functional amount.
Even more so in our lifetime and the next few generations.
The moon gets hit with a literal metric ton of meteorites a day.
Plus, it already has a mass of 73,430,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons already.
Scratched a bunch of math since it got lost in the sauce. In effect, the biggest mines on earth in far easier conditions and longer time scale would barely make an impact.
To have a serious effect on the gravitational pull it would take a huge undertaking to move that much mass.
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