What Would Happen If the Moon Crashed To Earth?

angkor writes: "What would happen if the Moon crashed into the Earth? We'd die. But there seem to be a lot of variables involved in answering this. I wonder if /.ers have any other ideas..."

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Surreal celestial questions.

[Christopher Thomas]

The article pretty much covered why the moon won't ever hit the Earth (and what would happen if Q snapped his fingers and it did), so I won't touch that.

However, this does remind me of a very, very bizzare conversation I and several others had a couple of years back (while waiting for food at a restaurant, and pondering the rolls).

Q: What would happen if you had an entire planet made out of bread?

Getting the answer was a very amusing thought-experiment. It turns out that you'd eventually end up with a bacteria-infested planet with a large diamond core, a mantle of uncertain composition, a crust of tar with seas of complex hydrocarbons and carbohydrates, and an atmosphere of methane and water vapour.

So, I invite similarly bored slashdotters to consider similar questions involving other materials, or other interesting celestial thought-experiments.