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humans have been mesmerised by the moon
since the dawn of man
and although many theories have been
proposed scientists cannot say with
absolute certainty how this celestial
object came into being when I was a
student nobody really knew where the
moon came from because it's so
relatively big this was a real problem I
might think that there is a tendency to
think that moons get somehow captured by
the parent planets if you've got one
body here and another body come coming
along it can't just get trapped into
orbit like that the difficulty there is
just basic physics so this remained a
puzzle until about 20 years ago when
another theory came along and that is
that the proto-earth was very early on
in the history of the solar system hit
by a mars-sized body hit obliquely that
this mars-sized body plowed into the
center of the earth and became the
Earth's core and a lot of the outer
material got stripped off by this
gargantuan collision and coalesced to
form the moon now they had to come up
with a very bizarre theory for how the
moon came into being because all the
conventional theories don't make any
sense the best theory of the moon's
formation is phantasmagorical a
catastrophic collision of two things you
know
at just the right angle to form this
belt of debris that then form the moon
but the moon its exact size is such that
it gives us total eclipses its disk
exactly covers the Sun and the chances
of that occurring are so literally
astronomically small it's it's very
disturbing the sun's diameter is 400
times greater than the moon and
coincidentally the Sun also happens to
be nearly precisely 400 times further
away this is the reason that the Sun and
the moon appeared the same size in the
earth sky and why we on earth can
experience eclipses of the Sun it's just
perfectly in that orbit to eclipse our
Sun the odds of the moon being in that
orbit accidentally or a zillion to one
so that right there is evidence that our
moon is in a perfect orbit around our
planet
that's not accidental in order to have a
solar eclipse the moon has to be exactly
the size that it is which is 2160 miles
not 2161 not 2159 but 2160 miles at its
equator and there are people out there
that actually think that's a coincidence
the fact is is that that is by design
throughout our observable galaxy this
relationship and others have not been
duplicated other moons are sizably
smaller by comparison to their mother
planet Earth satellite not only orbits
closer than it should for its size it is
also the only moon in the solar system
that has a near-perfect circular orbit
and no other lunar bodies are known to
have such a stabilizing role as the moon
has with the earth recent computer
simulations have shown that without the
moon's presence the Earth's axis tilt
would be completely different that it is
today we might not even have seasons as
we know them presently without the
seasons could be very difficult for life
on Earth so the moon is actually
performing an incredible function its
life sustaining without it we might not
be here there are so many peculiarities
about the way the moon has affected the
earth that one might be forgiven for
believing that there is intelligence
behind it that something made it that
way the moon is so strange so odd in
terms of what we find elsewhere in the
solar system and particularly in terms
of what it does for the earth having
made the earth into a haven for life
that one feels obliged to ask the
question could such things have come
about by chance
was it placed there deliberately was it
engineered maybe by aliens and therefore
is our whole existence a planned event
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