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As "Greg Neill" and a few too many others of his/her kind will gladly
supply from their infomercial bloated koran, there are a few other
than merely three scenarios to work with, especially of promoting upon
their usual all-or-nothing #7 swag that keeps getting pushed to the
top of their infomercial stack, while all other notions are usually
auto-rejected and/or summarily banished without so much as a stitch of
remorse.

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

That's actually a darn good question that's well enough suited for a
given supercomputer.  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 stick with Earth.  Although, 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 think 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) 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.
-
Brad Guth