An odd take on the Earth Moon system

[Moontanman]

Here is an odd take on the Earth Moon system....

 

http://lunarorigin.com/

[D H]

Beautifully done website, isn't it? It's very professional looking and is nicely organized.

 

There's a lesson to be learned here: Don't believe something you see on the 'net, at least not until you have done a sanity check. Does this pass a sanity check? No. There is no "lunar time scale problem" except in the eyes of various crackpots, mostly young earth creationist crackpots. There is immense amount of evidence that the Moon was only slightly closer to the Earth way back to the pre-Cambrian. 900 million years ago, for example, the Earth-Moon distance was about 90% of the current value. Evidence of tides goes back to 3.2 billion years. The Moon has been dated to just after the Earth finished forming.

 

This is a crackpot notion, done very nicely.

[rigney]

Odd, unsettling; perhaps both. But an anomaly, no! The moon has hung out there almost as long as the earth has been around. And we as humans have learned the basics of walking upright without help. But will we be here long enough to to figure out just what is going on? I sure hope so. But a good sized asteroid or a wild comet could give a civilization down the road some (? millions) of years in the future, good reason to look back, not at dinosaur bones; but buried sky scrapers and what we thank of today as modern technology.

Edited December 11, 2010 by rigney