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Originally posted by RavenStar
Hi!
As far as i know the dark side of the moon is called that as it can only be seen by flying around the moon in a shuttle!
I read in a book called "Bad Astronomy" that there is no actual dark side of the moon... But I don't remeber the explanation...
Originally posted by RavenStar
As far as i know the dark side of the moon is called that as it can only be seen by flying around the moon in a shuttle!
A NOAH'S ARK?
If you are going to launch an artificial sputnik, then it is advisable to make it hollow. At the same time it would be naive to imagine that anyone capable of such a tremendous space project would be satisfied simply with some kind of giant empty trunk hurled into a near-Earth trajectory.
It is more likely that what we have here is a very ancient spaceship, the interior of which was filled with fuel for the engines, materials and appliances for repair work, navigation, instruments, observation equipment and all manner of machinery... in other words, everything necessary to enable this "caravelle of the Universe" to serve as a kind of Noah's Ark of intelligence, perhaps even as the home of a whole civilisation envisaging a prolonged (thousands of millions of years) existence and long wanderings through space (thousands of millions of miles).
Naturally, the hull of such a spaceship must be super-tough in order to stand up to the blows of meteorites and sharp fluctuations between extreme heat and extreme cold. Probably the shell is a double-layered affair--the basis a dense armouring of about 20 miles in thickness, and outside it some kind of more loosely packed covering (a thinner layer--averaging about three miles). In certain areas--where the lunar "seas" and "craters" are, the upper layer is quite thin, in some cases, non-existent.
It is said that when a satellite hit the moon they were shocked at how the sound resonated throughout the moon as if it were hollow. It is also said that there is much activity around the moon's craters.