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Every year, our moon gets about 4 centimeters farther away from the Earth and, while this might not seem like much at first, it could have devastating effects on our planet in the future. Although the Earth’s gravitational field should be enough to keep the moon from spiraling into space for good, the increasing distance between it and Earth will eventually slow our planet’s rotation down to the point where a single day will take longer than a month and our oceans’ tides are locked in place.

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