Intro draft (unfinished)

Stealing the Moon: A How to Guide

The moon has been a fixture in our solar system for approximately 3 billion years scarred with tens of thousands of meteorite impacts not obscured in the least by its nonexistent atmosphere. The moon experiences extreme temperatures ranging from +110 degrees to -180 degrees Celsius a mere 384,400 km from Earth. The Moons mass makes it one of the largest moons in the solar system in comparison with the planet it orbits, almost making Earth and the moon a double planet. The moons mass also effects the oceans of the Earth by causing a pull on all of the water on one side of the Earth and causing an equal and opposite swell on the other side. The Moon orbits the earth once every month and its rotation keeps one of its side facing the Earth and making it so the other side, the dark side, is never seen. The orbit of the Moon is not an exact circle so every year much of the earths rotaional enery is wasted sending the moon into an orbit about 3.8 cm higher. Throughout the moons life it has moved an estimated 11.4 billion cm farther away from earth than where it formed. Now if the moon is already leaving how much more help would it actually need?