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The question of:  What/who put the moon here? / by effac

As "Greg Neill" and a few too many others of his/her kind will gladly
supply from their infomercial bloated koran that's deathly opposed to
revision, there are a few other than merely three scenarios to work
with, especially of those entirely similar of promoting upon their
usual all-or-nothing #7 swag of something Mars like smacking into
Earth, that which keeps getting pushed to the top of their infomercial
stack, while all other worthy considerations are usually auto-rejected
and/or summarily banished without so much as a stitch of remorse.

Otherwise, that's actually a darn good question that's well enough
suited for a given supercomputer.  Myself, I tend to favor a little
something on behalf of God, or at lest via his/her ET intelligent
design of expertise worthy staff of whatever faith-based minions, that
would likely accomplish whatever the task, especially if asked or
otherwise instructed by God, as for their having made an honest effort
at getting that icy proto-moon to properly target and then stick with
Earth.  Although, the odds of purely random happenstance isn't
entirely out of the running, just a little more than astronomically
unlikely, but actually not any more so unlikely than having such an
icy proto-moon itself as having impacted us in a very glancing
(seasonal tilt making) lithobraking blow, instead of Earth getting
smacked by something Mars like.

Besides, we need to keep asking ourselves;  Where the heck did we get
our unusually salty oceans from?

With regards to the salvation of Earth, I'm thinking that it's getting
downright closer to now or never.  The future of our *what if* demise
is actually right here and now, as mostly happening below our two left
feet and otherwise in front of our mostly dumbfounded eyes with a
mindset that'll knowing favor denial instead of the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.

Using our moon as for creating the ultimate shade of our salvation,
over sufficient time and without the human footprint of soot and many
other nasty/toxic contributions, -22.5 w/m2 should by rights bring on
one of those ice ages.  However, along with our human soot and thereby
of our continued global dimming (by perhaps yet another percentage
point) that's worth 6.85 w/m2, plus tossing in the added 100 teraWatts
of artificially produced energy should further offset the onset of
cold by another .1956 w/m2, making our new and improved future along
with our (6.85 + 0.1956) = 7.0456 w/m2 as based upon our nifty
contribution of having expanded our oceans, plus much other
atmospheric soot and having introduced those 100 teraWatts into
creating a the improved global thermal budget end result of
accomplishing -15.454 w/m2, which should be just a few watts/m2 short
of bringing on that full-blown ice age.

In other words, with that moon parked at Earth's L1 we'd have
ourselves shade to burn (sort of speak), along with no future shortage
of those winter Olympic locations, as well as we'd have much fewer of
those lethal storms, fewer and less extensive forest fires, and lots
of those badly GW traumatised polar bares and other polar realm
dependent species that should very much thank us.

Of course once again, this perfectly deductive analogy of this "what
if" is yet another ideal computer simulation of 3D worthy animation,
that which any good PC/MAC or supercomputer worth its parallel CPU
salt can give us most all of those matter of fact answers, of whatever
these "what ifs" have to contribute to our future of somehow getting
us by as is w/o relocating our moon, or that of the new and improved
results as artificially created by way of having relocated that moon
of ours out to Earth's L1.

Naturally, those future moon expedition missions for obtaining the
likes of He3 and many other raw elements will end up taking us four
times as long for the to/from commute, but that's a small price to pay
for the salvation of Earth, wouldn't you say!

BTW;  a mostly robotic established moon observatory, battery of nifty
laser cannons, or simply for being utilized as the secondary S-band or
X-band signal reflector, or whatever radar image receiving aperture,
on behalf of an Earth based or even the moon-->L1-->Earth radar
imaging alternative, should by rights get rather impressive, as we'd
also have the total solar isolation of the moon's L1 that's facing
Earth to accommodate my LSE-CM/ISS w/tether dipole element reaching to
within 2r of Earth (a bit closer if you'd dare), as well as having the
combined *(Earth+moon L2)--> sol L1* for accomplishing a whole lot
better solar related science.  Again, all of that being well within
the existing supercomputer expertise of telling us exactly those sorts
of "what if" matter of hard facts that we can take to the bank.

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Relocating our moon from its existing orbit, out to being parked
within the orbit of Earth's L1 is an all around win-win for everything
and everyone on Earth, although at least half the moon is going to
become a little worse off (sorry about that).

This is not an overnight or even a decade worthy consideration, but
more than likely a century worth of applied physics on behalf of
migrating 7.35e22 kg away from it's existing orbit.  Trust me, it's so
much easier said than done.

Accomplishing this tidal moderation, of what should become worth
slightly more than half of our existing tidal forced situation, as
such is going to extensively moderate the amount of this orbiting
mascon energy that's unavoidably converting into various forms of
terrestrial friction, and thus into creating heat, not to mention our
accomplishing the little reduction in reflected and secondary IR/FIR
energy that's derived from our moon, that will obviously no longer
exist with that moon situated at Earth's L1.

The amount of shade or solar isolation created by way of having our
moon at Earth's L1 is of course the primary benefit, whereas of my
best swag thus far suggesting that it'll essentially cause a global
insolation reduction of -22.5 watts/m2.  According to many other forms
and expertise of global warming research, that -22.5 w/m2 is offering
us a thermal compensation worth of better than three times the amount
estimated as the surplus or excess of energy that's being supposedly
responsible for having created our environment's recent past, existing
and continually warming situation, that's not looking good if you
happen to be made of ice or otherwise manage to survive because of
snow and ice.
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Brad Guth