You may have heard that on Monday October 7th the news was released that scientists
have discovered 20 new moons orbiting Saturn.
I have to give cred, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced this
first.
But, super cool right?!
That now puts Saturn at 82 moons, 3 ahead of jupiter's 79.
And a whopping 81 ahead of lil ol earth…
But our moon is the best moon so it’s okay.
And talking about our moon..
Hello everybody it’s Abbey here and are we ready to get moony-eyed over our moon once
again?
Im talking about part two of Scary Things That REALLY happened on the Moon.
*gesture with hands* Our moon.
Make sure to stick around until the end for some cool moon facts I have for you!
Number 1 It’s a space station
I thought I’d start this one off with a comment that inspired me off the last video.
Youtube user Darth Elias commented that...that’s no moon, it’s a space station,... on the
last video.
So, I looked into it.
And unfortunately, nothing.
While a space station on or in the moon might be an interesting idea, it’s not the reality.
There is an international space station orbiting earth that gathers some really cool data though.
But, I like where your head's at, and there a little more information on a similar theory,
which brings us to number 2
Number 2 It’s an alien spaceship Spacestation….
Spaceship, Spacecraft, they are similar, right?
On the same wavelength at least.
So have aliens been living inside the moon this entire time?
Let’s dive into it.
Or, let’s crack this one open.
An article titled…
Is the moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence… came out in a soviet magazine called Sputnik
in 1970.
This article was written by Michael Vasic and Alexander Shcherbakov from what was then
known as the Soviet Academy of Sciences, now known as the Russian Academy of Sciences.
They think that under a rocky layer of the moon there is an armoured hull protecting
the spacecraft housed by unknown beings.
People who believe in this theory cite that the moon rang like a bell when it was landed
on.
This comes from an article in Popular science where it said the moon rang like a bell for
an hour after Apollo 12 deliberately crashed it’s ascent stage of it’s lunar module.
People have used this descriptor to allege that..
Hey.. a bell is hollow and it rings.
Wouldn’t the moon be hollow if it rings too?
Plus, the moon isn’t as dense as the Earth.
It’s 3 point 3 grams per centimeter cubed whereas earth is 5 point 5 grams per centimeter
cubed.
So, IS it a spacestation??
Well, it can’t maintain it’s mass and gravitational field without a dense core.
So … sigh… only if the aliens have a SUPER DENSE CORE
Segway
Number 3 Lunatics While this isn’t on the moon, it’s some
scary stuff about the moons possible influence.
I know my mom tells me more weird things happen around full moons than usual, and she blames
it for a bunch of stuff, a lot of people do.
In the middle ages, scientists and philosophers thought a full moon caused unusual behaviour
too.
The unusual behaviour they thought it caused?
Things as serious as seizures, fever, and rheumatism.
If I lost you on rheumatism, don’t worry I looked it up too.
Those who know, don’t rub it in, okay?
Rheumatism is any disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints, muscles, or fibrous
tissue, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
So, ya, scientists and philosophers thought the moon did this.
Seriously.
And they even had a name for people under the influence of the full moon.
Lunatics.
Surprise, that’s where that word comes from.
Break it down.
LUNA. the Latin word for moon.
Ya.
Some more latin, Ex luna scientia.
From the moon... knowledge.
Or… rheumatoid arthritis.
Number 4 Space trash It’s scary that our world is filling up
with trash faster than we can find places for it.
And, newsflash, there’s trash on the moon.
Most likely upwards of four hundred thousand pounds of it too.
Most of it is old lunar probes or other spaceships that were built just to see if they COULD
land on the surface, but also lunar orbiters that crashed into the surface.
This is starting to sound cleaner than my room.
Their excuse for not cleaning it up is that they can study to see how the materials weather
over time as the moon's surface is an environment unlike ours, but if I use that excuse, my
roommates call me a lunatic.
Ey?
Number 5 Space Snakes A NASA astronaut who has been on six space
flights says he has seen space snakes.
Dr. Story Musgrave, a man with six academic degrees, says he say these things he couldn’t
properly explain.
He said in a 1994 interview that on two of his missions he “saw a snake out there”.
He describes it as six to eight feet long, rubbery with internal waves in it, and that
it “follows you for a rather long period of time.”
He thinks there are a bunch of different creatures out there in the great expanse of space.
So if you thought snakes on a plane was something, well, honey you’ve got a big storm coming.
Number 6 Graveyard on the moon So, among the space junk and momentos left
on that big ball of cheese in the sky, there’s another guy.
A dead guy.
A dead legendary planetary geologist to be more precise.
On January 6, 1998, Eugene Shoemaker, the man, the planetary geologist, the legend,
was launched in a memorial capsule aboard Lunar Prospector to the moon.
And the man had it done in style.
Around the capsule was a piece of brass foil inscribed with an image of a Comet Hale-Bopp
and an image of Meteor Crater in northern Arizona.
Oh, and how could I forget, a passage from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Which one?
Oh, you don’t have to ask twice.
Or ask,
And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
You’re welcome.
If you’re not shook, get ready for the next one
Number 7 moonquakes Astronauts be trippin, seriously.
NASA has footage in the archives from the Apollo Missions of the 1970s and astronauts
were stumbling.
Why?
Maybe: moonquakes.
Over the five years astronauts left seismic sensors on the moon they recorded evidence
of more than 12,000 moonquakes.
And a head’s up, while our earthquakes typically last under a minute, a moonquake can last
an afternoon, and often will last over an hour.
They last longer because the moon doesn’t have water to combat the seismic vibrations.
So, if you are hoping to run away to the moon to get away from the natural disasters that
happen on earth then ha ha ha you are not going to find that escape on the moon.
The moon is shook fam.
Number 8 Lunar Lava tube There’s tunnels on the moon too.
Wait, so maybe the moon could be a large organic space rock adapted to be an alien spaceship?
Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves.
These tunnels I am talking about are an underground network of lava tubes, or pits on the surface
of the moon that are entrances to underground tunnels that were once filled with lava.
A japanese probe even found a cave 30 miles long and 60 miles wide!
So, there are unexplored tunnels on the moon.
These could hold subsurface ice and, therefore, water.
A super important resource, that, if discovered, could be used by astronauts during future
missions.
So, I’m thinking, kind of a fun place to hold a party.
A search party of course, but a party.
Number 9 Moon Dust Okay so in the last video, it was brought
up that people think the moon rocks brought back from the lunar surface were fake.
This time let’s get more detailed.
Let’s talk dust.
In 1972 while there for Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt sneezed.
Then, for a full day, he got was he described as lunar hay fever.
His eyes watered, his throat throbbed, and he broke into sneezing fits.
Why.
He’s another one who bit the dust.
Just kidding, he’s the ONLY one who INHALED the dust.
Which is very dangerous.
Moon dust isn’t like the dust here on earth.
The particles on the moon are sharp, never erode, and are mainly made up of meteorite
pieces.
NASA tested a fake version of moon soil and it’s effect when human cells are exposed
to it.
The easily inhalable dust sliced and destroyed up to 90 percent of lung and brain tissue
within 24 hours.
Fun.
So, what about our buddy Harrison Schmitt?
Good news for him is that he only took the one breath after tracking in some moon dirt
from coming inside the spaceship.
So, he’s all good, and still alive today.
But we should all be careful if we want to explore the tunnels in the moon.
The moonquakes could really shake loose some of those dangerous particles, so suits will
have to be tight.
Number 10 Moon Warming Another reason suits have to be tightly sealed?
to regulate temperature.
The moon does not share the same temperature as the earth, as it can vary from minus 173
degrees celsius all the way to 127 degrees celsius.
Or From Minus 280 degrees f to 260 degrees f.
However you measure, it’s very different.
The thing is, the temperature also changed right after the first astronauts landed.
It went up nearly four degrees f or two degrees celsius.
After moon dust gave schmitt hay fever, were people giving the moon a fever right back?
Probably not.
The real reason was probably one that came up in a study in the Journal of Geophysical
Research.
To sum it up, the study basically said that the 12 Apollo astronauts that walked on the
moon kicked up a lot of dirt.
This uncovered a darker soil underneath, and the more heat absorbing soil that was now
uncovered then absorbed enough solar radiation to raise the temperature of the entire moon’s
surface.
Have you ever sat on a turf field and felt that it was just SO.
HOT?
It’s because the crumb-rubber turf retains the heat.
The dark moon soil is just another thing that you don’t want to lay down on, on a sweltering
day.
So, basically, we warmed the moon.
Just a tad.
Well, there’s your part two for ya!
What was the most interesting to you?
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I feel like I learned a lot in my research on this one so I have even more facts for
you.
Here’s a little bonus content.
I have three things One, that there’s lunar standard time, Moon
time.
Two, Each year, the moon’s orbit moves about four centimeters away from the Earth, meaning
that in a mere 500 million years, the moon will be 14,600 miles farther away than it
is right now.
It’s saying goodbye, kinda sad.
And finally, can moons have moons?
The idea that a moon could have a moon, although one such thing doesn’t exist in our solar
system, sparked the need for a name.
Some say moonettes - to which I say, giving a female suffix to something that is lesser
and revolves around something else is not chil man.
But others say moonitos, moooon four o’s, or moreso moonmoons, which I think is perfectly
appropriate.