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Moon May Not Be As Dead As We Thought
rivin2e writes "It would seem our neighbor, the moon, has something hidden below the surface. 'Images collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter hints the moon has probably seen tectonic activity within the last 50 million years.' It would appear from the article that the moon is changing a lot more than we think, even if it doesn't seem like it. I, for one, am still waiting for that big black obelisk to be dug up." From NASA's press release: "A team of researchers analyzing high-resolution images obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) show small, narrow trenches typically much longer than they are wide. This indicates the lunar crust is being pulled apart at these locations. These linear valleys, known as graben, form when the moon's crust stretches, breaks and drops down along two bounding faults. A handful of these graben systems have been found across the lunar surface."
Perhaps you meant to say "Moon not as geologically stable as we thought." ?
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We all know this is just marketing for Iron Sky.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Science Max: It just so happens that your moon here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Moontoya: What's that?
Science Max: Go through its craters and look for loose helium-3.
Oh sure, hold up the 1:4:9s as the standard of beauty. Anorexic slabs. Its bad enough that they go through purge cycles. Just look at what they did to Jupiter. Now if they maintained a healthy mass...
by Anonymous Coward: I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?
Another good point in favor of dead moon is the seismological studies that were done. Supposedly all evidence at that time pointed to a solid body. For example seismic waves reflect off solid/liq transition boundary, you see that on earth, not on moon, so either the entire moon is liquid or the entire moon is solid, and surface studies clearly show its solid, so the inside must also be solid. Plate tectonics are much harder if the whole moon is a solid cold rock.
Probably a good excuse to visit the moon again... drop a permanent base, several geologists with moon buggies and C-4 to run some standard seismic surveys...
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
But that was before they got a closer look.
When the model changes to accept new data, we call it science.
When the model never changes and rejects all new data, we call it religion and dogma.
Hope this helps.
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BMO
It's a mutant space goat. We better get the telephone cleaners and hair dressers loaded onto B Ark.
I'm not worried. The last time any Gods showed up, we killed it -- nailed the fucking thing to a cross and let it bleed to death. This was during the Roman Empire when the highest technology was what, a slightly faster chariot? A Galleon with archers on deck?
It's 2012. We've got battleships, satellites, hypersonic jet aircraft, helicopter gunships, atomic weapons, and a grudge deeper than Mariana's Trench.
You want to destroy the Earth? Well, you'll have to get through us first.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
We need to make sure that when we get there, we have a good infrastructure of lawyers, big media execs and politicians.
Don't forget banking and finance. They definitely need capital markets if they're going to accomplish anything. After all, without the possibility of great monetary reward, there's no way anybody would bother to build a shelter for themselves or gather fruit to eat.
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Well yeah, if they aren't, we just call them "holes".