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Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I have recently considered this:
Of all the planets in the entire universe which house sentient life (observers), how many would have a single moon that perfectly eclipses the visible diameter of their sun, and where the shadow of their planet perfectly eclipses their moon?
If this is unique, and by design (however unfathomable), what are the implications for those observers (us)?
Does it mean anything?
I think it does, no matter how solipsistic the implication.
What you just said hits on the perfection in all of this that I've been talking about lately.
I cannot find a single flaw anywhere and considering the amount of werk it would actually take to pull this off for real, logic dictates why dew sumthing for real, when you can dew it mentally with less werk and more time for fun. Especially since you can stack time in thought, creating the illusion of Time within Time.
It doesn't hurt to look at Life with the eYe of a 5 year old. It makes more sense that way.
Ribbit
....ok if this reality was real I would be wrong mmmmm? The Planet Eaeth was never struck by MARS ,It was struck by a Planet roughly the size of mars though ..It happened about 4 Billion to 4 point 5 billion years ago not 750 million years ago.In other words it happened dureing the early formation of our solar system when there wher many many more planets an planetoids then we see today.It was chotic an collisions were quite freqent.This Mars size planet struck earth not atraight on but more of a glanceing blow.Enough energy was generated to pulverise the impactor an turn both it an the earth into molten rock liquid.We captured most of its iron an a considerable amouunt of its mass with the inital impact.Iron being a heavy element sank to the core of the early Earth.Increasing its mass of iron about three fold,Thats why today Earth has such a large iron core,The reast of the debri from the glanceing impact .Was captured by earths increased gravity an became a ring bit like Saturns however the process of agregation caused it to form into our moon realy rather quickly on cosmic scales.Estimates differ drom a few hundred years to ten thousand years,Our new Moon was very much closer than it is now an would have apeared huge in the sky.About 4 times closer than it is today.As I explained in my early post .Its been moveing away grom us at a qtr inch per year ever since.Many have speculated that the massive tides caused by such a close moon later on could have played a part in the mixing of the primordial soup wich could have led to early self replicating cells to evolve.Basicly every tides in the early Earth were massive tusamis with 500 hundred feet tidal flows,When man walked on the moon late sixtys early seventys they set up mirrors so we could acurately measure the speeed of the moons movement away from Earth by fireing a laser at the mirror an calulate the time it took to return the light.This is where the qtr inch per year measurement was calculated from.You say Earth was struck by MARS 750 million years ago you do realise that the Earth had Oceans at that point in our evalutionary history wich were teaming with not just single celled animals but complex animals wich would lead to us.An impact by Mars or a Mars size planet would have tottally steralised the Planet destroyed all oceans an life dwelling within.Makeing this conversation/debate we have on this web site ATS impossable ?If any of this was real......................................
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by ecossiepossie
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I have recently considered this:
Of all the planets in the entire universe which house sentient life (observers), how many would have a single moon that perfectly eclipses the visible diameter of their sun, and where the shadow of their planet perfectly eclipses their moon?
If this is unique, and by design (however unfathomable), what are the implications for those observers (us)?
Does it mean anything?
I think it does, no matter how solipsistic the implication.
One then wonders what a certain past Magus of specialized training might deduce from such a coincidence, even when it wasn't known how vast the univerrse is..
At this momment in time it is perfect to eclipse the sun.Couple of billionyears ago the moon was twice as close to earth as it is now. It is moveing away from our planet at about a qtr of an inch per year.An one day willl escape our gravity compleately an become a planet in its own right an orbit the sun an not us.
If this reality was real, you would be incorrect, considering the m00n wasn't in our orbit prior to the earth's collision with Mars around 750 million years ago.
The m00n has an erratic orbit because it hasn't established its orbit yet, just as Mars' orbit is erratic because it hasn't established its orbit around the sun as of yet.
Ribbit
edit on 12-3-2012 by ButtUglyToad because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I have recently considered this:
Of all the planets in the entire universe which house sentient life (observers), how many would have a single moon that perfectly eclipses the visible diameter of their sun, and where the shadow of their planet perfectly eclipses their moon?
If this is unique, and by design (however unfathomable), what are the implications for those observers (us)?
Does it mean anything?
I think it does, no matter how solipsistic the implication.
What you just said hits on the perfection in all of this that I've been talking about lately.
I cannot find a single flaw anywhere and considering the amount of werk it would actually take to pull this off for real, logic dictates why dew sumthing for real, when you can dew it mentally with less werk and more time for fun. Especially since you can stack time in thought, creating the illusion of Time within Time.
It doesn't hurt to look at Life with the eYe of a 5 year old. It makes more sense that way.
Ribbit
Just because the degree of perfection involved defies the imagination, doesn't mean that it's not all real, and indeed has been created perfectly as it is. It's not a flexible, ephemeral dreamscape generated by the mind of a human being, and if it were, it could just as easily be a pink elephant. For me, to me, it leaves me astounded at the perfect will of an almighty God who is greater than my lonesome self, no matter how imaginative I am. Personally I'm suprised the lengths to which some people will go to deny God's perfect will and lay claim to the whole of all creation as a projection that they themselves are generating, which is really quite absurd, if not supremely arrogant and egocentric.
Originally posted by ecossiepossie
....ok if this reality was real I would be wrong mmmmm? The Planet Eaeth was never struck by MARS ,It was struck by a Planet roughly the size of mars though ..It happened about 4 Billion to 4 point 5 billion years ago not 750 million years ago.In other words it happened dureing the early formation of our solar system when there wher many many more planets an planetoids then we see today.It was chotic an collisions were quite freqent.This Mars size planet struck earth not atraight on but more of a glanceing blow.Enough energy was generated to pulverise the impactor an turn both it an the earth into molten rock liquid.We captured most of its iron an a considerable amouunt of its mass with the inital impact.Iron being a heavy element sank to the core of the early Earth.Increasing its mass of iron about three fold,Thats why today Earth has such a large iron core,The reast of the debri from the glanceing impact .Was captured by earths increased gravity an became a ring bit like Saturns however the process of agregation caused it to form into our moon realy rather quickly on cosmic scales.Estimates differ drom a few hundred years to ten thousand years,Our new Moon was very much closer than it is now an would have apeared huge in the sky.About 4 times closer than it is today.As I explained in my early post .Its been moveing away grom us at a qtr inch per year ever since.Many have speculated that the massive tides caused by such a close moon later on could have played a part in the mixing of the primordial soup wich could have led to early self replicating cells to evolve.Basicly every tides in the early Earth were massive tusamis with 500 hundred feet tidal flows,When man walked on the moon late sixtys early seventys they set up mirrors so we could acurately measure the speeed of the moons movement away from Earth by fireing a laser at the mirror an calulate the time it took to return the light.This is where the qtr inch per year measurement was calculated from.You say Earth was struck by MARS 750 million years ago you do realise that the Earth had Oceans at that point in our evalutionary history wich were teaming with not just single celled animals but complex animals wich would lead to us.An impact by Mars or a Mars size planet would have tottally steralised the Planet destroyed all oceans an life dwelling within.Makeing this conversation/debate we have on this web site ATS impossable ?If any of this was real......................................
Originally posted by ecossiepossie
You are a product of your education and when wrong is the teacher, wrong is the student and two wrongs don't make a right!
Ribbit As far as the teacher being wrong in thease matters I am self taught as my formal education is basiclly zero..So you are calling me wrong,,I provided links to back up my assertation that Earth was never struck by Mars 750 million years ago.Could you be so kind to provide some proof or links that prove your version of events is true? T I A...............
Originally posted by ecossiepossie
Thanks for the reading Toad but none of it proves that Mars smashed into Earth 750 million years ago an created the Moon,The Moon is billions of years old.It has no volcanic activity it would still have a molten core if as young as you claim.Also Mars would be much closer to us today if your scenario where true.We will have to agree to dissagree.