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Originally posted by blocula
reply to post by paradox
Omg,different threads contain different theories and sometimes they are interconnected and sometimes they have nothing to do with eachother...
A big problem is that bloc's theories generally fly in the face of established scientific facts.
Originally posted by DaveNorris
reply to post by Zaphod58
actually that isnt eaxactly how science works.
you start with the facts and build a theory that is supported by these facts, then as more facts emerge you change your theory to include these new facts.
so, actually it makes sense to have more than one theory on the go (as long as they include the proven facts and only differ on the predicted applications of the theory)
Originally posted by blocula
reply to post by paradox
Omg,different threads contain different theories and sometimes they are interconnected and sometimes they have nothing to do with eachother...
Originally posted by blocula
reply to post by paradox
Omg,different threads contain different theories and sometimes they are interconnected and sometimes they have nothing to do with eachother...
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by blocula
But if you have 50 theories, and they all contradict each other then that doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. The way science works is to find one theory, and then prove it. Not have 4 or 5 theories that contradict each other and argue that every one of them is right.
Five Serious Theories
Five serious theories have been proposed for the formation of the Moon (not counting the one involving green cheese):
The Fission Theory: The Moon was once part of the Earth and somehow separated from the Earth early in the history of the Solar System. The present Pacific Ocean basin is the most popular site for the part of the Earth from which the Moon came.
The Capture Theory: The Moon was formed somewhere else, and was later captured by the gravitational field of the Earth.
The Condensation Theory: The Moon and the Earth condensed together from the original nebula that formed the Solar System.
The Colliding Planetesimals Theory: The interaction of earth-orbiting and Sun-orbiting planetesimals (very large chunks of rocks like asteroids) early in the history of the Solar System led to their breakup. The Moon condensed from this debris.
The Ejected Ring Theory: A planetesimal the size of Mars struck the earth, ejecting large volumes of matter. A disk of orbiting material was formed, and this matter eventually condensed to form the Moon in orbit around the Earth. Source csep10.phys.utk.edu...
The Spaceship Moon Theory, also known as the Vasin-Shcherbakov Theory, is a theory that claims the Earth's moon may actually be an alien spacecraft. The theory was put forth by two members of the then Soviet Academy of Sciences, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, in a July 1970 article entitled "Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?" Source en.wikipedia.org...
The new theory isn't without its problems, however. For example, it doesn't explain why the lumpy far side of our moon shows a high concentration of aluminum, Taylor said. However, this problem could be resolved by future lunar studies, Taylor said, and it's not a serious enough reason to dismiss the theory.
"If anything," he said, "it just opens up more cool problems to work on." Source news.nationalgeographic.com...
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
Your point being? There are a lot of things out there that we haven't figured out yet. As more evidence comes in they'll narrow it down, and figure out how the moon came to be.
Although his discussion of lunar history is certainly very comprehensive and detailed, he
does dismiss two theories that have turned out to be right and were widely accepted in 1991.
The first of these is the giant impact hypothesis of lunar formation. Schmitt (1991) objects to
this theory on the grounds that the source material for the orange glass beads that he found
during the Apollo 17 mission was too rich in volatiles and parentless Pb to be explained by the
giant impact hypothesis. This argument is somewhat absurd. Schmitt is using inferences about
the parent material of one very rare sample to object to a theory that Hartmann (1986) built on
overall volatile depletion, overall iron depletion, angular momentum conservation, oxygen
isotope similarity between the Earth and the Moon, and several other lines of evidence. While it
is true that Schmitt et al. (1991) does state that it is only using the Apollo evidence, it is
somewhat tacky to object to a popular theory without engaging the main thrust of the argument.
Schmitt, who flew on the Apollo 17 mission, declared in 2008:
"The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities."
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
Again, your point being? There are hundreds of scientists here on earth that STILL find things that shock everyone, or that they can't figure out about the earth. They've been studying how life was formed, and evolution for ages, and STILL can't agree how they occurred. They're trying to figure out how the moon was formed from a relatively small number of rocks that came back.
As for saying global warming is false, there are hundreds of scientists that say that man made global warming is false, and hundreds that say that it's true. That's something they'll be arguing about for years to come. Just because someone went to the moon doesn't give them more or less credibility than someone that didn't.
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
My point is we sent astronauts, probes, satellites, took pictures, movies and brought back moon rocks, and that science still maintains 5 or 6 serious moon theories as of 2012.
Originally posted by blocula
Deaths of key people involved with the Apollo program (scroll 1/3 down the link page) > www.apfn.org...
Several nazi mass murderers were exempt from punishment,as long as the usa could procure their rocket technology to use against the russians during a cold war that didnt even exist and send astronauts to the moon where they never even went...
Its all about lies and deceptions...
Nasa/Nazi/Nato...Hmmmm?
Within another thread,about some other theory,i said the nazis sent us to the moon,so i havent contradicted anything and could you please leave the drug addict accusations out of this discussion?
Originally posted by DenyObfuscation
reply to post by blocula
Several nazi mass murderers were exempt from punishment,as long as the usa could procure their rocket technology to use against the russians during a cold war that didnt even exist and send astronauts to the moon where they never even went...
That doesn't even make sense. You said they literally landed us on the Moon. You're a walking contradiction.
Besides, that's a moral issue irrelevant to whether or not space travel is even possible. There's no reason to have to explain that to an adult.
Its all about lies and deceptions...
You can't possibly discern lies and deceptions, being so clueless as to what the truth is.
Nasa/Nazi/Nato...Hmmmm?
Adjust your meds.
Within another thread,about some other theory,i said the nazis sent us to the moon,so i havent contradicted anything
and could you please leave the drug addict accusations out of this discussion?