Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? 355
An anonymous reader writes "How the Moon arose has long stumped scientists. Now Dutch geophysicists argue that it was created not by a massive collision 4.5 billion years ago, but by a runaway nuclear reaction deep inside the young Earth."
stupid scientists (Score:5, Funny)
the moon is made of cheese
clearly, the young earth was lactose intolerant, and ejected it for that reason
the problem is all infants can digest lactose, and lose the lactase enzyme ability later in life if they don't have the right genes
but all theories have holes in them
like swiss cheese!
Runaway Nuclear Reaction... (Score:5, Funny)
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Sanitation (Score:5, Funny)
So Earth basically got a bad case of gas, had an accident and now has its own turd in orbit.
Collision Theory (Score:3, Funny)
The Moon! (Score:3, Funny)
The Moon is a secret Italian conspiracy to spy on, undermine, infiltrate, and subvert America. That's why it is always in OUR sky -- ever wondered about that? How come Mexicans and Chinese don't get the Moon? Because they are in league with the nefarious Italians against our Great Fatherland.
Not possible (Score:5, Funny)
We all know that if there were a nuclear catastrophe of this magnitude, then the whole planet would be hurled through space at such speed that each week we would encounter a new alien race, group of outcasts, or supernatural being. Seeing as the earth is still in its stable orbit around the sun, we can conclude that this must not have happened.
Or maybe (Score:3, Funny)
It was caused by aliens driving 737's and dropping nukes into volcanoes.
Re:Or maybe (Score:4, Funny)
Space 1999 got it wrong... (Score:4, Funny)
Teach the hypothetical controversy! (Score:5, Funny)
If the moon were real, it would have been created by God. Clearly a large ball of rock is the sign of an intelligent Creator, if it were there.
Re:Not possible (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Or maybe (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? (Score:5, Funny)
The article is slashdotted but it is possible that when this happened there was no solid surface yet to leave traces of this.
No, I think the article was slashdotted today.
The server in flames may leave traces on the floor and walls of the server room, but we'll have to wait for a "Best Way For Bright Child To Clean Server Room?" post to Ask Slashdot to confirm.
Re:Or maybe (Score:2, Funny)
LHC (Score:3, Funny)
version 0.9 ?
That's no moon! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? (Score:4, Funny)
People like you are what makes arseholes like Bevets cry at night and hold themselves...you with your "science" and "evidence." Bah! A pox on you!
=Smidge=
That's no moon... (Score:5, Funny)
It's the mother of all core dumps!
Re:Sanitation (Score:3, Funny)
Just goes to show that some shit follows you forever.
Yucca Mountain will get it right? (Score:4, Funny)
So, as soon Yucca Mountain gets tanked up, the Earth might get another moon?
That would be cool!
Less so, if you live in what used to be Nevada.
Ah, the joys of Space 1999 Physics! Truly worthy of an Ig Nobel!
Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? (Score:3, Funny)
Oblate spheroid."
Just to descend completely into pedantry: "Geoid". Which is a total cop out of a term, but you're allowed to cop out and make up new terms if your name is Gauss.
A Spherical estimation is good enough for most purposes. Elipsoid or oblate spheroid estimations are better, but as soon as you're looking at scales where they're better, you note that the flattening of the earth is not symetrical; the South pole is significantly flatter than the North (because Antarctica is heavy.)
Ha! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? (Score:1, Funny)
IANAG
"Ray, when someone asks you if you're a God, you say "YES"!"
Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? (Score:1, Funny)
Get back to Fark!
Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? (Score:3, Funny)
So when the server melted down from the Slashdot effect, was there a runaway reaction that caused a smaller, satellite server to be ejected?
Re:The Moon! (Score:3, Funny)
How come Mexicans [...] don't get the Moon?
If that's no moon (pun intended), then wtf is in the sky then?
A space station!
Whichever God Wins... We Lose (Score:3, Funny)
In fact, the UK is the only European country to do it differently (why doesn't that surprise me, the bloody bastards still drive on the wrong side of the road too).
Yeah, well that's why you were occupied by the Germans during WWII and we weren't. It's damn hard to steer a left-hand-drive tank on the wrong side of the road.
;)
Although perhaps the 22 miles of water helped as well
Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, without the moon we wouldn't have eclipses. And without eclipses, we wouldn't have superpowered superhumans fighting to save the world. By saving a cheerleader.