Scientists believe moon is 40 million years older than first thought

You missed the sarcasm tag. (Which was written in invisible ink.) It’s interesting, but not world shattering. Oh, wait, it was world shattering. 4.46 billion, give or take a billion, years.

I don’t know. The headline begins Scientists believe. Sounds a bit faith based to me. :)

That's the half THEY don't want you to see on the right.

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What? Last *I* heard they believed it was a space ship.

only half /s

The layer of dust on the moon is only a few inches thick.
The reason Apollo Lunar Lander module had those really large bowls at bottom of each leg was that “science” said the layer of dust would be several feet deep.
That prediction was based on the prejudice that the moon was many millions of years old (or even older).
Imagine the surprise 😱 when there was no sinkage.
So the moon is not old, old, old. What a strange turn of events./s

Why not just make it 100 million? 🙄

Yeah, that’s the same excuse the property tax office uses.

Another insignificant and unimportant discovery.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. And she may have lied about her age.

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I know you weren't asking for this but I just spend 5 minutes figuring this out and thought I would give you the benefit of my extremely valuable research. /sarc

I appreciate the effort, but I already knew that. My jibe about sarcasm was sarcasm.

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If that’s the dark side of the moon on the right, how did they light it up to take the picture?

Actually almost all of the 5 minutes of research was figuring out how to display html code without executing the html code. But whatever.

40 M years older than was thought before. Or 30, or 47 or 53….
More funding for scientists is needed to get clarity on this vital subject!

Through its Artemis Program, NASA hopes to return a team of astronauts to the moon in 2025.

It’s kind of sad really, I remember a time when it would have been said that “...NASA PLANS...to return.

We see this every decade.

One administration wants to go, the next one doesn’t.

GWB wanted a manned Mars mission that should have launched by now..............

So it’s as old as dirt?

“Science” has been wrong in the past, but never in the present.

Apparently so!...................