Moon Moving Question for calcs

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

Just a small question and I have somewhere to be soon, so i'll ask it now to get it out the way.

For feats that involve moving the moon, is it an actual requirement to have a distance be applied to the feat or is there a way for us to calculate moon moving feats without a distance?

That is all. I'd appreciate some feedback on this please as im seeing a bit of both answers thrown around and IDK which one is correct.

 

[Kepekley23]

Distance is required for literally every "moving" feat in fiction. Otherwise, unquantifiable "5-C"

 

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

Thats strange then, because ive seen a moon calc that didnt use distance but the rotation of the planet (earth in this case) and it ended up being High 5-A.

And calc-group members have approved the math itself being legitimate too.

 

[Kepekley23]

That counts as distance.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

If it's just a statement, then it would be 5-C, but if there's onscreen movement, then calcing the speed of it being moved is applicable.

 

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

That counts as distance.

Oh. So would that be another way to get distance then if its not outright shown on screen/panel?

 

[Antoniofer]

I feel like a simply statement, it should be below 5-C, since moving < destroying; so unless there's a minimal amount of energy to put a celestial body out of its orbit (according to SA its needed 1/10 of its weight to do so, but I think its has no scientific basis), I'll go with At most 5-C.

 

[Kepekley23]

Moving the Moon is at least 5-C. The Moon by itself already moves at nearly 5-C speeds (in terms of KE)

 

[Antoniofer]

Mmm, not sure, one do not need to completely stop the moon, just moving it out of its orbit.

 

[Kepekley23]

Which requires ''vastly'' accelerating it.

 

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

That counts as distance.

Oh. So would that be another way to get distance then if its not outright shown on screen/panel?

^

 

[Antoniofer]

I feel that the more accurate result would be an integral of the KE of an orbiting body (G*M*m/[2*r]), but I'm too old for integrals.