How can the moon do that?, page 3

To pick up where I left off...

Originally posted by warthog911
11. Unusual Metals: The moon’s crust is much harder than presumed. Remember the extreme difficulty the astronauts encountered when they tried to drill into the maria?

No, please elaborate.

The maria is composed primarily illeminite...

Of what now? Making up metals, are we?

Uranium 236 and neptunium 237 (elements not found in nature on Earth) were discovered in lunar rocks, as were rustproof iron particles.

What? Where were U236 and Np237 found? Rustproof iron particles? Again, please elaborate...

12. Moon’s Origin: Before the astronauts’ moon rocks conclusively disproved the theory, the moon was believed to have originated when a chunk of Earth broke off eons ago (who knows from where?).

No, it didn't... If anything, it supported that theory, since a lot of the materials are the same...

Another popular theory is that the moon was somehow "captured" by the Earth’s gravitational attraction. But no evidence exists to support this theory. Isaac Asimov, stated, "It’s too big to have been captured by the Earth. The chances of such a capture having been effected and the moon then having taken up nearly circular orbit around our Earth are too small to make such an eventuality credible."

Again, taking what someone who actually has clout in the scientific field said out of context! What Asimov said does nothing to support that the Moon was "placed there" or anything outrageous like that.

13. Weird Orbit: Our moon is the only moon in the solar system that has a stationary, near-perfect circular orbit.

I highly doubt that it is the moon with the lowest eccentricity, and even if it is, so what? The Earth has an eccentricity of about 0.0167, while Luna's is about 0.0554... So does that mean that the Earth was placed here as well?

Stranger still, the moon’s center of mass is about 6000 feet closer to the Earth than its geometric center (which should cause wobbling), but the moon’s bulge is on the far side of the moon, away from the Earth.

You know what else is funny! The Earth's center of mass is off too! Do you know why? Because planets are not perfectly spherical. Imagaine that... Oh, and by the way... Libration

14. Moon Diameter:...

Done to death in this thread already... Though I do like the out of context quote taking again. Very professional!

15. Spaceship Moon: As outrageous as the Moon-Is-a-Spaceship Theory is, all of the above items are resolved if one assumes that the moon is a gigantic extraterrestrial craft, brought here eons ago by intelligent beings. This is the only theory that is supported by all of the data, and there are no data that contradict this theory.

I really like the, "I'm right and nothing can disprove what I say" attitude. Again, very scientific, this one is. And no, all of the above "items" are resolved if one uses their brain and scientific logic to come to conclusions...

So, what now, warthog911?

[edit on 8/2/2006 by cmdrkeenkid]