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Originally posted by spacebot
47 natural forces eh? If Mankind left Earth, or if Mankind decided to station communities outside of Earth after some generations it would be likely their offspring's would start to look different than any offspring's born on Earth. If they moved a bit further away, then those offspring's would start to look a bit different than the offspring's closer to Earth, and if the moved a bit further away less and less of these 47 bounding forces that bound humans in to their present form would be present to help each consecutive generation resemble human characteristics. Who knows maybe even behavior or intellect could be affected.
If his theory is ever tested to its limits — i.e., sending people out into interplanetary space, many millions of miles farther away from the Sun — we may be horrified to find out that human beings turn into oysters before they ever reach their destinations. Meaning that deep space travel is impossible for human beings.
Since mankind on both sides of the Atlantic preserved the memory of a time when the Earth was without the Moon, the first hypothesis, namely, of the Moon originating simultaneously with the Earth and in its vicinity, is to be excluded, leaving the other two hypotheses to compete between themselves.
We have seen that the traditions of diverse peoples offer corroborative testimony to the effect that in a very early age, but still in the memory of mankind, no moon accompanied the Earth
Apollonius of Rhodes mentioned the time “when not all the orbs were yet in the heavens, before the Danai and Deukalion races came into existence, and only the Arcadians lived, of whom it is said that they dwelt on mountains and fed on acorns, before there was a moon.”
Perhaps this is what Earth would have been like if the Moon had not been formed? Even this is an overestimate of the amount of land. Venus' surface is almost uniformly 500 Ma in age and has not experienced significant rifting or mountain building in that time. Erosion on Venus is very slow in the hot dry atmosphere but on a waterworld erosion would be at least as rapid as on Earth. Planet girdling storms would smash on the exposed shores of any island, and rainfall would stream from the heavens.
Australia as a continent is a similar age to Venus' surface. We no longer have any topography more than 3km above the surface of the continent, and almost all of it less than 2 km, so the continents of Venus would likely have foundered below the waves long ago, if it were further from the Sun.
Originally posted by djusdjus
wow, the sheer ignorance in here is stifling. the moon is a brain? man, you guys are clutching at straws now. lol