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    Quote Originally Posted by RangeBob View Post
    ^^^ some quibbles about the moon being 'another planet', but otherwise
    Technically our Moon is a Natural Satellite, like other "moons" everywhere in the universe

    Some examples.... Europa, Phobos, Callisto, Mimas, Ganymede, are Natural Satellites.

    There are some moons that have their own moons too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RangeBob View Post
    ^^^ some quibbles about the moon being 'another planet', but otherwise
    Fair point but on the moon Armstrong and Aldrin were the aliens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RangeBob View Post
    ^^^ some quibbles about the moon being 'another planet', but otherwise

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smc View Post
    If you really want to blow your mind, look up how the earth’s core might have stopped spinning recently.

    Read an article on that on the Weather Network the other day. It said that the core stopping and reversing its spin happens every 60-70 years.

    And... drumroll... that it may affect global climate! We better increase those carbon taxes again asap....

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    Quote Originally Posted by 762mm View Post
    Almost like it was put there by design... sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!

    You’ve been binging on the 5th Element lately or something?

    As for hollow inside, read the link I posted. It specifically covers the “ringing” at one point of their discussions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smc View Post
    If you really want to blow your mind, look up how the earth’s core might have stopped spinning recently.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by 762mm View Post
    Read an article on that on the Weather Network the other day. It said that the core stopping and reversing its spin happens every 60-70 years.

    And... drumroll... that it may affect global climate! We better increase those carbon taxes again asap....
    No no no................if it's reversed, the government puts our money BACK in our pocket !!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SIR VEYOR View Post
    You’ve been binging on the 5th Element lately or something?

    As for hollow inside, read the link I posted. It specifically covers the “ringing” at one point of their discussions.

    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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    And now for our next feature movie

    Quote Originally Posted by 762mm View Post
    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.




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