Posted on 03/03/2018 8:09:56 PM PST by BenLurkin
In recent decades the scientific consensus has been that the moon formed billions of years ago from debris cast off when a Mars-sized object dealt Earth a glancing blow. But a radical new theory holds that some long-ago giant collision actually disintegrated Earth, causing it to balloon out into a vast doughnut-shaped cloud of vaporized rock, which the scientists who developed the theory dubbed a “synestia." They say the moon subsequently formed within this cosmic maelstrom.
In the long-accepted explanation of lunar formation, the collision between Earth and the Mars-sized object, known as Theia, ejected part of Earth's mantle — essentially molten rock and metal — and left debris orbiting our planet. Over time, the bits of debris collided and clumped together to form the moon.
But when the researchers used powerful computers to simulate this process, they ran into the same problem that has long vexed scientists examining the Theia theory: It was hard to see how the collision and the ensuing clumping of debris could explain the moon’s unique chemistry, said study co-author Dr. Sarah Stewart, a professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis.
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Are these the same kind of scientists that invented Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Cosmic Donut. Good name for a restaurant.
Lot’s of hot coffee, bearclaws and swivel chairs for the local cops to take a quick break.
Sounded to me like a band playing at Fillmore West circa 1967.
Like Strawberry Alarm Clock or Electric Prunes?
Gimme a glazed!
If it was hot, maybe it involved bacon on it, too.
So the Moon is just a giant donut hole?
There are a couple things that are totally weird about the moon.
For one, it’s size and position, No other planet in out solar system (well at least of the minor planets) has a satellite that is so huge! The moon is a quarter the size of the Earth - well, not exactly. Also it’s distance and size compared to the sun - we can have total eclipses, or annular eclipses.
I watched the last eclipse of the sun last August from almost dead center in the line, and it was totally clear.
And it keeping in constant rotation with the earth - we never, ever see the other side - well, until we sent satellites and people out there.
It’s almost too much of a coincidence to have it just happen - almost like it was put there - by something or someone...
so in others words they still dont know a fgn thing about how it formed...
what does this have to do with the bomb cyclone?
And Brian Wilson was there to see it? Huh?
I think you had too much to dream last night . . .
The moon gives us the tides, it protects us from space rocks, it is just the right size to give us eclipses, it is way bigger and way lighter then it should be.
Some guys have been speculating that the moon is artificial because it works so perfectly to give the earth and humans a number of advantages which other planets do not have.
Of course then they have to try to come up with who made it.
That is when it gets weird.
Hot Cosmic Donut was going to be Zappa’s next album, but...
I was reading an article last month that really hit home about the distances between the moon and Mars as it pertains to earth, and I couldn’t believe it. If you were able to drive your car non stop (not the Elon Musk rocket car) but just your regular car like you would on the highway going 70 mph, it would take you around 5 months to reach the moon. But if you drove to Mars from earth going that speed, driving 24/7 it would take you 228 YEARS. I drive about 2 hours every day to and from work, and I was thinking about that and it really blows your mind how far away these planets are and that’s just in our own solar system.
My God!
It's full of Pierogi & Paczki!
(It is Lent, after all.)
Krispy Kreme or Dunkin?
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