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Battle Beaver (01-27-2023)
Funny you say that... because of its' abnormally large size in comparison to its' parent planet (Earth) and its' almost perfectly spherical shape, some astronomers are speculating that the Moon is actually a captured planetoid and not a "moon" at all.
In essence, our Moon is full of mysteries. A bizarre planetoid-like body orbiting the only planet in this system able to sustain life... and now an intelligent space-faring civilization. The development of complex life on Earth is also largely attributed to the Moon's size, orbit and gravitational effect on our planet, which stabilizes the atmosphere and climate, regulates the tides and makes Earth much more habitable for complex animals of all sorts. Without the Moon, it's almost a certainty humans would not exist today.
Almost like it was put there by design... sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!
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If you really want to blow your mind, look up how the earth’s core might have stopped spinning recently.
Rory McCanuck (01-28-2023)
Not really ‘stopped’, despite all the clickbait headlines. It’s currently rotating at the same speed as the rest of the planet. Sometimes it rotates slightly faster, sometimes slightly slower. It only stops and reverses direction from the perspective of someone standing on earth.
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stevebc (01-28-2023)
762mm (01-28-2023)
No, but I watch a lot of documentaries about space, some of them more "out there" than others. All in good fun.
Of course not all physicists and astronomers will agree on these topics, which are often the point of contention. Personally, I like to keep my mind open to all possibilities. Perhaps the Moon is just a freakish, one of a kind natural occurrence. Perhaps the Moon was placed in orbit of the 3rd planet purposely billions of years ago. Perhaps. In all probability, we will never really know for sure.
The other possibility is that is has been used as an observation vantage point much more recently, on the scales of just millions of years. The Solar system is spinning around the galaxy same as other star systems and, every once in a while, we come VERY close (on cosmic scales) to other star systems. If one of them was inhabited by a technological civilization millions of years ago, it is quite probable that they would've sent probes or possibly even AI to park on the Moon and observe Earth's evolution over the next millions of years, for scientific purposes.
Contrary to Earth and its' corrosive atmosphere (O2), parking something on the Moon can have it last pretty much indefinitely.
Laugh all you want, there are actually serious physicists pitching this idea as quite possible, maybe even probable. If an Alien civilization ever presented an interest in planet Earth, the evidence will be on our Moon (as an observation vantage point and a communications station).
If we ever visit another star system to observe a planet of interest in the long term, that's what we will do too : park our equipment on the nearest moon. Also, it is quite important to stop thinking on the scales of human lifetimes when we consider what is possible. These projects would be on scales of thousands, if not millions of years... and managed by self-maintaining and self-replicating AI machines.
If you want to watch some interesting podcasts about these topics with credible physicists and astronomers being interviewed, I recommend "Event Horizon" with J.M. Godier on YouTube :
https://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow
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chrisc (01-31-2023)