IS THE MOON MADE OF GREEN CHEESE?

As folklore goes a simpleton fox looked into the well and saw a reflection of the moon yielding to the story that the moon is made of green cheese?

Come on man... you are a bit long in the tooth to beleive in fairy tales?

UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN HIDING UNDER A ROCK WE HAVE UP TO DATE NEWS ON THE MOON FROM SCIENTISTS AND SCI-FI WRITERS.

The Moon may have formed “immediately” after a giant impact that put it into orbit around Earth, according to a new theory of its origin.  The theory relies on detailed simulations by powerful supercomputers, which suggested that the Moon would have emerged instantly after something crashed into Earth.

Most theories claim the Moon formed out of the debris of a collision between the Earth and an object about the size of Mars, called Theia, coalescing in orbit over months or years.

Lunar Glass Shows Moon Asteroid Impacts Mirrored on EarthSep. 29, 2022 — A research team has found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some of the largest meteorite impacts on Earth.

Breaking in a New PlanetAug. 18, 2022 — Impacts affect the porosity and structure of moons and planets more dramatically than scientists suspected, increasing their potential habitability for life.

During the 1950s the US considered detonating a nuclear bomb on the moon

A top-secret project transpiring in 1958 – Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights – was planned as a show of strength and an opportunity to boost domestic confidence at a time when the US was losing the race to space to the Soviets. If the bomb exploded on the surface instead of in a crater, the flash of light would’ve been visible to people on Earth with their naked eye.

However, the plan was never carried out, due to concern about a negative public reaction, possible militarization of space and the higher probability that a manned moon landing would be more popular in the eyes of the world. The project documents actually remained a secret for over 40 years until former NASA executive Leonard Reiffel, who led the project, revealed the project in 2000. The US government has never officially recognized their involvement in the project, and there’s no record of it on NASA’s website.

The sun and the moon only appear to be the same size.

The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but it looks the same size in Earth’s sky because the moon is 400 times closer to Earth than the sun. When objects are closer to us, they appear bigger than they would far away. For example, many other stars are larger than the Sun, but they’re a lot farther away from Earth.

Tides are caused by the moon.

There are two bulges in Earth resulting from the gravitational pull of the moon. One bulge is on the side of Earth that faces the moon; the other is on the side that faces away. When the Earth rotates, the bulges move around in the oceans, causing the high tides and low tides in oceans all over the world.

There’s a special type of tide when the sun, moon and Earth align together bi-monthly around the times of the New Moon and Full Moon – a spring tide, which means high tides are higher and low tides are lower no matter the season.

The moon is a broken off piece of the Earth

Scientific consensus about how the moon formed is that billions of years ago, a protoplanet crashed into Earth and the pieces of it revolved around the Earth to form the moon.

When Jupiter was young, a massive planet likely slammed into it.  By modeling the evolution of ejecta fragments from the collision, researchers of a 2015 study on lunar formation estimated the moon formed around 4.47 billion years ago.

ARE THERE ALIENS ON THE MOON? Recent photographs show evidence of Aliens on the moon.  I think Bowie said it best "theres a Starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us but he knows he'd blow our minds"

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Lunatics” can blame the moon. One of the moon facts from the Middle Ages is that scientists and philosophers believed that a full moon caused seizures and influenced episodes of fever and rheumatism. Because of the connection between the moon and unusual behavior, the afflicted were called lunatics, or, literally, “moon sick.”

THINGS YOU MAY WANT TO SAVE: MOON ROCKS: The shape, size, arrangement and composition of the individual grains and crystals in a rock tell us about its history. Radioactive clocks tell us the age of the rock. Tiny tracks even tell us the radiation history of the Sun during the last 100,000 years.

ZENTRAVELER SAYS: Lunar bases are on the horizon:  “Although we are centuries off large numbers of people living on the Moon, it is possible we could soon have scientific bases there, similar to Antarctic research stations,” explains Massey. NASA is hoping to return astronauts to the Moon by the late 2020s. “Planetary scientists believe a base could have lots of uses, from improving the search for organic material to establishing a radio telescope which would be shielded from the Earth to better listen for extra-terrestrial signals. The Moon’s surface area is as big as Europe and Africa combined so we have only scratched the surface.”

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