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You will find the answer within the question itself.

It's an earf observation station staffed by aliens, obviously.

Fuck yeah...

So does arfcom attract these 2021 nuts or are the 2021 plants to make arfcom seem nutty?  

Poll inbound. Well, not from me, I’m too lazy.

This is the answer you seek OP, all hail the mighty Lufo!      

First, the moon's orbit isn't perfectly circular - it is elliptical, with minimum and maximum distances of 363,396 and 405,504 km respectively.  The moon's orbit around Earth is actually more eccentric than Earth's orbit around the Sun.

The side facing Earth isn't all that smooth or glassy - did you see the images from the Apollo missions?  There are hills, mountains, and craters, and much of it is covered in a couple inches of dust.  There IS a difference between the side facing the Earth and the opposite side (there are large areas of volcanic lava which have formed plains on the near side, for instance), and the current scientific theory is that this was due to small planetoid, (one much smaller than the one believed to have hit the Earth and formed the moon) that hit the near side of the moon at a relatively low velocity early in the history of the solar system.

The moon isn't a solid, homogenous sphere any more than the Earth is, but that doesn't make it hollow.  The various strata in the mantle are somewhat different than those of Earth, but in both cases they cause vibrations (seismic waves) to travel in a manner that is very different from that of a simple solid sphere.  If the theory of a planetoid impact are correct, one would also expect those strata to be disrupted over a large area, changing the properties of how the moon vibrates as well.  None of the observed properties of moon quakes gives any indication that the moon is hollow.

Next, your "biblical scholar" may have skipped the first part of the bible, as the moon is mentioned in Genesis chapter 1 as "the lesser light to govern the night" created on the fourth day.  I do believe that the flood took place somewhat later than the first week of creation, but hey, I'm not a biblical scholar- just some guy who can read a book.

You would expect moon rocks to be older than those normally found on Earth, given that the surface of the Earth is continuously "recycled," while the moon has not had significant surface activity in a very long time.  I have seen no scientific study of moon dust which attempted to determine an age (moon dust is continuously created due to meteorite bombardment, and is a mixture of pulverized moon rock and the remains of meteorites).

Mike

You don't even need imagery. Just look at the moon sometime. Use a riflescope if you have one handy. But even if you don't, the naked eye clearly shows a nonhomogeneous surface.

I think it was placed there by a loving God who knew we needed tides in order to create this beautiful utopian planet that we need to survive. JK it randomly fucking happened

The moon won't ever escape Earth's gravity, though you are correct that in the long run its ascent will probably not be good for life as we know it.  The moon is increasing its distance from Earth via tidal forces - the moon is dragging on the Earth's rotation and in return the Earth is transferring momentum to the Moon.  There is not enough momentum in the system to give the moon enough of a boost to escape, however.  Rather, at some point (estimated at around 50 Billion years from now, barring interruptions such as the transformation of the Sun into a red giant) the tidal force will have slowed the Earth's rotation so far that its rotation is the same as the moon's orbit.  In other words, the Earth will become tidelocked to the moon in the same way that the moon is now tidelocked to the Earth.  At that point, the Earth will no longer drag the moon along in its orbit and the two will reach a steady state.  At that time, both a lunar month (the time for the moon to orbit the Earth), and a solar day will be approximately 47 days (today's days, that is 47x24 hours) long.  If someone is worried about climate change now, imagine what 23 days of the sun being up continuously, followed by a night just as long, will do to the weekly temperature swing...

Mike

Um ............ the sun's life expectancy is only another 5 billion years, so 45 billion years after that, the sun will be a cooling white dwarf, and the earth will probably have been vaporized during the red-giant phase of the sun's life.

Brought to you by the same academia that supports global warming

This was the real moon landing. The one step for mankind thing was done in a movie studio where it was much safer.

Why does every other planets moon or moons have fancy ass names and ours is just the moon?

Luna. Earth is Terra. The Sun is Sol.

We like leaning heavily on Ancient Rome and Greece in naming our system.

At least vote "Troll".  

There is compelling evidence that an impact with a mars-like planet on the Earth caused the creation of the moon.

It's a debris pile.

English is four languages (old English, French, Latin, & Greek) hiding under one trenchcoat and pretending to be one language.

Apropos of nothing ........... it is said that English can be spoken more poorly than almost any other language and still be understood.

That said, some posts in GD leave me wondering what they say, or mean.

That's how volume works.  Volume of a sphere = 4/3(pi)r³  (Four thirds times pi times radius cubed)

As the radius increases, a sphere increases it's volume by a lot more than the increase in radius.

The radius of the moon is 1,738km, and the radius of the earth is 6,378km.  That works out to roughly 50 times heavier, but about 3.7 times larger in diameter (also radius).

Now, the moon is indeed less dense than the earth.  About .6 times as dense.  Planetary bodies all have varying densities due to their varying masses and compositions.  The moon has less mass than the earth, so all things being equal, should be less dense.  Gravity isn't crushing the core of the moon nearly as much as the core of the earth.  Also, during the formation of the liquid earth, heavier metals sink to the core, leaving the lighter materials to "float".  Have you ever had a sugary drink with ice in it?  After a certain amount of time, the ice will melt and the water will float over the sugary drink.  Sugar solutions are denser than water so they sink.  If you took a random sample from the bottom of the glass, it would be more dense than a sample taken from the top of the glass.

The moon is hypothesized to have formed from an oblique collision with another body.  It stands to reason that the material ejected from earth would be lighter components, and the heavier ones would remain in the core of the earth.  Just like if you had a drink that separated a bit over time, a small splash out of it would be more water as a percentage than syrup.  In the case of the moon, the rock ejected and coalesced is .6 times as dense as the earth, which includes a lot of heavy metals in its core.

Therefore the apparent problem that you are seeing does in fact make a lot of sense.  50 times heavier divided by .6 as dense, equals 83 times heavier.

Edited because the Pi character doesn't show up in the post.

lol.  The moon varies by about 42,800 km, so it would have to be a bungee cord with more than 10% flex.  Also the earth rotates, so the anchor would have to travel about a thousand miles an hour in the plane of the moons orbit.

Well, the moon does rotate, it's just that it rotates in sync with its orbit. This is called tidal locked. Many other moons in our solar system are tidal locked.

The interesting thing to me is, given the size of the moon and the Earth, most like we didnt just "capture" the moon like more massive planets.

Also, without our moon the Earth stood a good chance of being tidal locked to the sun by now.

A collision could have imparted an optimal amount of rotation to the Earth.

PROVE ME WRONG, and which PART is wrong.  The data I cite came from a documentary I watched on the origins of the moon.  

The persons who made those statements of fact were NASA scientists.  (Hopefully not the same ones pushing the global warming bullshit on us. )

Well.

I'm glad this party is still going.

It's a good memento of why we're doomed. In the past few weeks I've learned

Plate tectonics - conspiracy
Astrophysics - conspiracy
Punishing football teams for allowing a pedophile to rape kids - conspiracy
Grocery stores catering to their local area - Conspiracy

You left out "disease".

I didn't want to get too deep in the shit this early.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Is there anything in the Universe that does not spin?  

If we are spinning, and so are all of our observation devices, how would we know whether objects we observe are spinning or not?

1.5 inches a year.

Time zones are the railroad's fault!!!

Is God an Alien?  

I want some zircon encrusted tweezers.

It's hollow, not hallow. The moon rotates. That is why we only see one side.

Nice beaver.

There you go trusting the science again. I've got a video by PMMEURSTARFISH69 on YouTube that'll open your eyes

I'm not going to comb through this entire thread again to find your claim that I found to be incorrect. Post it again, and I'll be happy to explain to you why you're wrong.

So what about all the other moons around all the different plants?
Alien connect the dots?
Ethereal bingo?

Spain put it there.

Yes.  God put it there so that it moderate Earth's weather.  Also, He knew it would help absorb meteors and protect the earth so that life could arise.

Plants have moons?

A miracle indeed!

Squirrel shit isn't half as nutty as this?

Better? (This is a question)

Actually, it's orbit is decaying, as is normal for all orbiting celestial bodies. It doesn't rotate about an axis because of its relative close proximity to Earth, whose gravity locks its orientation.

Yes, it was placed there.  By the large planetesimal that impacted the earth about 4 billion years ago.

The Moon rotates about its own axis.

watch a video on the orbiting of the solar system.


Planetariums are cool to.