Epiphanic

[still_just_me]

The last half hour I spent gazing at the nearly full moon through my telescope, feeling great wonder that we walked on this thing, that we explained its motion, that we described its nature, that we discovered its origin.My species amazes me so much sometimes. Tonight, it was in a good way

Comments

[bearr]

nice moon...now if only it wasn't for the dark ages we probably would have been there SOOO MUCH sooner.

[seanorange]

YES! Sweet.

I don't think we've decided on which origin we like best, though...

~Sean

[still_just_me]

Thanks!

The Giant Impact hypothesis is the dominant explanation currently. Although, granted, it's not quite as sewn up as, say, evolution.

However, it does boast a fairly sweet computer simulation of the first 24 hours. Notice the splash from the second impact, where almost all of Theia's iron core fell into the Earth.

[seanorange]

I wish it went over a longer span of time, because all I see is a big mess that's going to eventually fall back to the planet.

~Sean

[still_just_me]

Shoulda mentioned: the comp simpulation runs ~10 seconds.

[still_just_me]

Well, how bouts I crack open this little textbook here...

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[anonymous]

. Regards