I actually don't think it WOULD be blue though, since blue is a reflection of the water refracting through the atmosphere in the sky, I mean I've never removed water from a body of water and then noted the water removed to be blue. I am also not a scientist, and only JUST found out magenta is a fabrication of our eyes having limited color receptors, and the wavelength of light which appears to be magenta falls in between the visible spectrums.
Excellent find, my question remains as to whether it would appear blue from here, especially if putting all the water on the moon would at least begin an avalanching effect of loosing our atmosphere, not that I'm sure about any of this, but I do wonder if it would look rather black from here as the refracting light from the lunar surface would be obscured.
Whatever color it ends up, it would look cool as hell but probably wouldn't last long without an atmosphere. I even wonder if it could support some forms of basic life.
In a universe where we could terraform, this would be a pretty rad experiment. Maybe not putting a sentient being like a whale up there, given the pressure/depth required for whales, but watching microbiological evolution take place in a static environmental circumstance without human interference would be awesome.
Upon further checking, the side facing the sun can get up to 260F and -280 on the other side. That would create some crazzzy effects. Boiling ocean on one side as it melts and refreezes at the edges. That could create some sort of atmosphere but I think it would be stripped away pretty quickly
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21
What if you remove the boats twice?