Scientists discover huge, heat-emitting blob on the far side of the moon

Litzz11, 10 months ago

@Arotrios I think my last boyfriend was a heat-emitting blob.

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markdevries, 10 months ago

@Arotrios Isn’t that where the nazis went after WWII?

Iron Sky (2012)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/

raymccarthy, 8 months ago

@Arotrios
it's the nuclear waste that propelled Moon Base Alpha into space in 1999
cooling down a bit in 24 years.

dangrierson, 10 months ago

@Arotrios mantle plume?

raphael_fl, 10 months ago

@Arotrios So Rush Limbaugh didn't actually die, he just left Earth? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

JML, 10 months ago

@Arotrios Cool science, but how long until Avi Loeb concludes it's a buried UFO?

kint, 10 months ago

@Arotrios Oh that's just the forest fires in Canada reaching all the way to the moon.

bbolli, 10 months ago

@Arotrios @briankrebs It‘s the base from Iron Sky!

Flaky_Fish69, 10 months ago

would this granite constitute evidence that the moon struck earth at some point?

Bipta, 10 months ago

The moon is hypothesized to be made of material from when Theia (hypothetically) struck Earth billions of years ago. Most of the matter became the Earth and some spun out into space and became the moon.

obscuretenet, 10 months ago

@Flaky_Fish69 @Arotrios "On the moon, a dead volcano that hasn't erupted for 3.5 billion years is likely the source of this unusual hunk of granite."

In other words, no. It's just an indicator that there are as-yet-documented internal processes working on the Moon and other celestial bodies.

If the Earth and Moon had ever collided there would be very clear and significant damage to both, unless the collision was so far back that it wouldn't matter as far as this goes.

curiosityLynx, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

As someone else already commented, the leading theory since several decades (most other theories about the origin of Earth's moon became less plausible once we went to the moon and brought back moon rocks for analysis) is that Proto-Earth collided with a roughly Mars-sized object we're calling Theia. As a result, the material from both was mixed. Part of that mix of two (proto-)planets got ejected and formed the moon, while the rest formed the Earth (with smaller objects forming temporarily in unstable orbits and raining down as meteorites on both the Earth and the Moon).

Here's a Wikipedia article on the topic

nicetriangle, 10 months ago

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brianshatchet, 10 months ago

This is interesting. Sounds like it makes finding other intelligent beings much less likely, which is a bit sad I guess.

nicetriangle, 10 months ago

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wolfshadowheart, 9 months ago

We are also in a particularly unique location for our universe in terms of being able to view the wider universe. Were we any further center or any further out, we would have much less of an observable universe. Stars would not have shown up in the night sky until the 1970's due to the distance.

Space is dark. We are in a very well lit part of it :)