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human
ELI5: If an asteroid were to pulverize the moon, but miss us, what would happen?
gpt
Pulverize? Like, utterly obliterate? In order for that to happen, something very, very large needs to be travelling very, very fast. It would be spectacular to witness, and the intense energy released from the collision in your twisted doomsday scenario would burn whatever side of the planet was facing the moon at the time. Any chunks of rock or whatever that rained down upon Earth as a result would be akin to nuclear devices detonating in rapid sequence, unleashing a firestorm the likes of which Earth has not seen since its infancy.

Basically things would probably be pretty bad, but we wouldn't survive long enough to live through the hellscape that would remain of the thoroughly broken planet that remained after orbital lunar-bombardment.