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What would most likely happen if the moon was closer to Earth (take tides into consideration)?

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The tides wold be more extreme
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Low tides would be lower and high tides would be higher and any low lying coastline would be flooded

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If the moon got about 20 times closer it would make a gravitational force 400 times greater than what we are used to now

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