We typically don't think of the moon -- unlike, perhaps, the sun -- as absolutely vital to human life, but it is.
A new video (above), released by Inside Science on Wednesday, reveals the top five things we would miss if Earth didn't have it's precious satellite.
From what nights on Earth would be like to how human life might have never come to existence, just check out the video and prepare to be amazed.
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