Did you know that the Nazis may have had a moon base?
Or that maybe the US never made it to the moon at all??
I'm Bob, and join me as I reveal 8 crazy claims about the moon.
8.
The Moon Is Made Of Cheese Ok, this is an odd one to start with for sure,
but come on!
Kids for generations have been told in jest that the moon was made of cheese.
And yes, while it's ridiculous to think about now, after we've gone to the moon multiple
times and even got some Moon Rocks out of the deal, for a time, it was a plausible theory
of sorts.
Now, yes, it's basically common sense that the moon is NOT made of cheese, but think
about it from the perspective of a person who looked up at the moon before 1969 (when
man first landed on the moon) and wondered, "What's it feel like up there?"
We had no idea what the moon was made out of, that's what made this idea of it being
cheese so fun and appealing.
We didn't know what it was, so it could be anything!
Some people even thought it was "green cheese", or "young cheese", or even cream cheese!
Once we did go to the moon, we discovered it was a true rock-like substance called Regolith
(which isn’t soft at all).
Regolith is also the reason we can also see the moon because it is highly reflective,
and so the suns' rays bounce off of it, and we get a bright moon at night.
I don't know about you, but if I have kids?
I will definitely tell them the moon is made out of cheese at least once...if not more.
7.
The Moon "Transforms" You The moon has fascinated humanity for thousands
of years.
One of the most curious things about are its "phases".
Because the moon revolves around the Earth (and takes about 30 days to do so), and the
Earth revolves around the sun, the light that reaches the moon doesn't always reflect off
the whole body.
So, we have the New Moon, 1st Quarter, and so on.
Anyway, because of these phases, people have put all kinds of folklore into them.
Not the least of which is the oddities that happen when a Full Moon rises.
The most prevalent of these claims is that if a Full Moon is out, people, and sometimes
wolves, will turn into Werewolves.
Which, naturally, has been used in TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and every other
media you can think of.
To great effect to be fair.
But, that's not the only thing that the Full Moon is associated with.
For many have felt over the years that the Full Moon does something to their minds.
We're talking things like being more violent than usual.
Or going into fits, sleepwalking, having more of a desire to commit a crime, or at its worse,
murder and suicide.
In case you didn't know, words like "Lunatic" and "Lunacy" were actually derived because
of the Roman Goddess of the Moon, Luna, who was said to have weird effects on people when
her "glory" was in full view, aka, the Full Moon.
This belief was so prevalent, that in England during the 18th century, if a certain crime
was committed under the Full Moon, the punishment would be less severe, as they "weren't in
their right minds".
Even to this day, people are wary about going out at night when a Full Moon is out, because
you never know who might be affected by it.
6.
The Nazi's Had A Moon Base This one is crazy ironic because of recent
media, but there was a rumor during World War II that Hitler had somehow, someway, gotten
a base up on the moon.
There were even "documented" cases of Nazi's finding UFO's in the Himalayas, and using
them to build said base.
Then, when the end of the war came, Hitler faked his death and fled to the moon, because
that was the only place that was safe for him.
The reason this is ironic is because of the video game Wolfenstein: The New Order, which
showed an alternate universe where the Nazi's won World War II, and in that game, the Nazi's
had a moon base.
"Art imitating life", right?
5.
The Moon Makes You Have Babies Woah!
Woah, not what I mean, mind out of the gutter!
What I'm trying to say, is that many cultures and civilizations associated the phases of
the moon with fertility within women.
And only during certain phases could women become pregnant.
Now, an interesting that fact that is 100% true is that the lunar cycle and the menstrual
cycle within women are about the same length, 30 days.
So no doubt someone saw that, and then seemingly tied it to the moon.
Or, in some cases, the deities of the moon.
As a Mythbuster once said, "Anything that isn't science, is God."
Which is poetic here because many moon deities from various cultures all over the world are
women.
Including Artemis from the Greeks, Luna from the Romans, there's the Chinese goddess Chang’e
and Mama Quilla of the Incas.
Coincidence?
Maybe not.
There even was a Czech doctor once who found an ancient chart stating these claims in regards
to the moon, and told his patients when they ovulated based on when they were born, and
told them to try and conceive around that period.
Moving to the present day (and I can attest to this as I used to work in a hospital),
any time a Full Moon came around, the maternity wards are expected to have a lot of expectant
mothers.
Now, scientists have somewhat disproved this theory, however, some people still believe
it, and sometimes coincidence can be more "reassuring" than facts.
4.
The Moon Is Both Weird And Perfect Have you ever researched something and upon
seeing a certain stat or figure go, "That doesn't add up"?
Well, for some, the moon is one of those stats and figures, and when you hear the reasons,
you'll understand why.
Let's start with size, our moon is the 5th largest in our solar system.
On the surface, that's not much to question.
But, the other four?
All belong to gas giants, not ones with life like Earth.
And our moon is largest in comparison to host planets.
Now, let's talk distance.
The sun has a diameter that's 400 time bigger than the moon.
The moon is 400 times farther away from the sun than it is to the Earth.
Because of this, a solar and lunar eclipse can happen.
That's...oddly perfect.
What's more, if the moon was any bigger or any smaller, the eclipse wouldn't happen.
To our knowledge, there is no other moon/sun combination in our solar system that can do
that.
That's a pretty big coincidence, wouldn't you say?
Adding to the weirdness and perfection, without our moon exactly where it is, the Earth can't
survive.
It controls our tides, it helps with the changing of the seasons, and more.
If it wasn't there, we'd be screwed.
So the next time you look up at the moon, be grateful for it.
3.
Is There Something On The Moon?
In 1969, the world rejoiced (well, most of the world) when the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed
on the moon.
Three men had done what an entire planet had dreamed out, venturing into the stars and
making it to the place we see almost every night.
However, both before and after Apollo 11, a question was being spread in people's minds.
Was there something alive on the moon?
Now, while this sounds like an epic conspiracy theory (which is par for the course for the
moon), there is some evidence to back up this notion.
You see, while the Apollo 11 was getting to the moon, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin (the two who eventually would touchdown on the moon), saw what they defined as "flicker
flashes".
Odd lights that appeared on the moon but didn't make sense at the time.
Adding to this claim is that NASA has a book chronicling similar odd phenomena on the moon,
some of which dates back centuries.
During that same mission, a HAM Radio Operator claimed that Aldrin and Armstrong radioed
Mission Control to warn them that an alien spacecraft was spotted, and that aliens were
watching them as they were setting up their presence on the moon.
If that's still not enough for you, in 2016, a video of the moon showed a "dark object"
moving across the lunar landscape.
So for centuries, and especially the last 50 years go or take, something may be going
on within the moon.
We just don't know what...yet.
2.
The Moon Is A Ship, Or An Egg Another very outlandish one, but one that
has been told more often than you might think.
For in books and TV series, the moon has been portrayed as a space vessel, or an egg for
a living being.
One of the most famous examples of this is the H.G. Wells book "The First Men In The
Moon", where the moon is hollow and inhabited by aliens.
And this book inspired many to think along similar lines.
However, science does have a solid backhand to this theory.
Because of how the moon orbits the Earth and has its own gravity, it wouldn't be able to
sustain itself if it was hollow.
As for the egg "theory", some feel that because of its proximity to Earth, it's actually an
egg of some sorts, and within it is a massive creature just waiting to be born.
Which, actually would line up with the science theory about the density of the moon, as there
is something inside it.
So, what's in it?
Well, if you believe Game of Thrones, it's a dragon, and there used to be more than one
moon, but that one hatched and the dragon flew away.
In the Doctor Who episode "Kill The Moon", it was an alien, one that threatened the Earth
as it was hatching, but the Doctor's companion refused to kill it, and because she didn't,
the Earth was saved, and another egg was left after the creature hatched.
Again, this is crazy even by this lists standards, but aren't the best stories a bit crazy?
1.
The "Moon Landing" Hoax The all-time greatest moon claim has to be
the 1969 NASA Moon Landing, I've talked about it a lot on this list in context to other
events, however, to this day, 20% of Americans (and a whole bunch of other people around
the world) believe that the Moon Landing in 1969, and many subsequent landings...were
faked.
Now, the big question here is, "Why?"
Well, many saw the "evidence" of the moon landing and started to ask questions, and
these questions built and built until many started to believe that it was a hoax.
What's more, the timing of the event was during the Space Race in the Cold War.
The United States was desperate to "beat" the Russians/Soviets to the moon, and what
better way to declare victory than by "pretending" you did it.
So how would this work?
Do recall, back then, our radar and long-range sensors were only so powerful, so no one would
be able to "detect" that a craft actually did land on the moon.
What's more, all NASA would have to do is launch a spacecraft (which, thankfully, people
acknowledge we did launch people into space), and then wait the "estimated" amount of days
to make it to the moon, then shoot the rest of the "landing" on a set and broadcast it
to the world.
No one had ever been on the moon before, so how would they know any better?
Despite this being debunked, including on an entire episode of Mythbusters which they
proved not just 1969 Moon Landing but subsequent landings, people still believe it.
And to be honest, until they go to the moon themselves?
They'll likely never stop believing it.
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