This topic is quite interesting but it's a shame that tis been hijacked by people insinuating aliens. I wish someone could find an official NASA
source on this as the statement has transformed in the course of this thread from "the moon rang like a bell" to something along the lines of "the
moon sounds like titanium"!!
From the moons gravitational pull I dont think you can conclude that the moon is hollow and not solid. You can work out its mass as a fraction of the
earths and then ASSUMING that its matter is as dense as the earths you can work out that its solid but of course there could be some more dense matter
making up some of its whole. Of course I dont believe this, I think the moon is a big solid rock!
I find the idea of an alien base on the far side of the moon to be farcical. It has been seen loads of times by astronauts and photographed by
satallites.
Here is a pic from wikipedia.
Originally posted by incunabula
Other anomalies of "our" moon is the puzzle of the moons age for example the first rock Neil Armstrong picked up after landing on the Sea of
Tranquility was older! than the oldest rocks on earth. over 99percent of roks brought back after analyses turned out to be older than 90 percent of
the oldest rock that can be found on earth.that rock turned out to be 3.6 billion years old other rocks even older at 4.3,4.5,4.6 and even one alleged
to be 5.3 billion years old, the ones on earth are about 3.7 billion y.o and the rocks that were brought back was thought by scientists to be from one
of the youngest areas back then of our moon!
Another one is the dark areas of the moon known as maria(dried up seas) some of these maria form the familiar "man on the moon" but astronauts
found it extremely difficult to drill into the surface of these black plains, soil samples were loaded with rare metals and elements like
titanium,zirconium,yttrium,and even berrylium. also rustproof iron found on the moon,pure iron particles that dont rust were unheard of before
(although there is a solid iron pillar of unknown age in New Dehli,India, that has also never rusted and noone knows why). Inmense clouds of water
vapour,the moons lack of dust,structures on the moon including (pyramids found on the actual Sea of Tranquility (now obviously suppressed) and of
course the list goes on.
Incunabula, your statement about rocks on the moon being older than those on earth is very easily explained by the fact that earth is techtonically
active and the continental plates are being constantly refreshed however they are not on the moon.
And please!!! What exactly is rust-proof iron?? Do you know what rust is? It's Iron Oxide, formed by a simple reaction with the metal. There is no
such thing as Iron that, under some conditions, can't be oxidised, and its ridiculous to sugest such a thing. I doubt there is much water and oxygen
on the moon and thats why it hasn't rusted.
Originally posted by Matyas
3361+197741
equals
201102*
Palindromic Solar System
*I consider this a sacred number-M
Matyas, your information of adding up some numbers and getting a coincidentally pallindromic number shows absolutely nothing! Have you tried adding
them up when they are not in base 10, are they still palindromic then? Why is it that you have chosen to use base 10, dont forget those Greys with
only 8 digits!

There is also no reason to regard it as a sacred number as its totally unique, if there were a variety of different things which
all summed to 201102 then it would be special but I bet these are the only things which do! Anyone can pick a list of figures and find they
miraculously add up to a palindromic number.
Originally posted by ed 209
I've heard of accounts from the past that say there wasn't always a Moon there at all, that it was placed there and that's why it macthes the size
of the Sun in the sky and why eclipses occur, as it's used as some kind of timepiece - related to that is the idea that the Moon is so placed so as
to make biological life possible (as it controls the tides, for example) and the whole alien-experiment thing is about cultivating water-based life on
Earth.
ed 209, you discuss the similarity in size of the moon and sun when viewed from earth, yet this is just a very common misconception. In fact because
the moons orbit around the earth is ot circular it actually changes size and during some eclipses it appears larger than the sun and during annular
eclipses is actually smaller creating a ring of fire effect.
I really hope this will clear up some of the arguments about aliens and we could get back to the topic and discuss why the moon could "ring like a
bell".