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Earth is more than rare, whereas it's unusually fluid (inside and
out), along with a mostly wet surface and otherwise frozen polar caps
and other volumes of ice that if melted would summarily drown or
otherwise terminate most of us, and as of lately it has been more than
a little salty to boot, plus going GW(global warming) postal at the
same time that we're trying our level best to survive on this orb.

The basic argument here is that Earth simply didn't always have that
pesky moon untill after the very last ice age this planet w/moon will
ever see, as for that pesky moon representing such a horrific nearby
orbiting mascon, especially if that sucker were ever once upon a time
orbiting at a forth the distance and thus having been contributing 16
fold greater gravity/tidal forces into our 98.5% fluid Earth, as that
unfortunate outcome would have kept mother Earth more than a little
extra GW hot! hot!! hot!!!

Solar tides always existed, along with eventually some oceans of
whatever less salty muck and of much less fluid volume had also
existed, as well as for our elliptical orbit and less seasonal tilt
having existed.  So what?  We can certainly have all of that w/o moon.

There may not be those local ice cubes surviving in 1AU space, but
much further out it's quite another cosmic story, especially if one of
those arriving ice cubes had a fairly terrific 7.35e22 kg worth of a
rocky core to start off with.

Although it would have been darn nice having a few direct interactive
science instruments on deck (which should have been easily
accomplished if we'd actually walked on that sucker), though otherwise
the best available remote science of our physically DARK and NASTY
moon is more than good enough to suggest upon multiple other reasons
for Earth (being 98.5% fluid) having obtained that absolutely horrific
mascon of a moon, and only as of the very last ice age this gravity/
tidal forced global warming of a mostly fluid planet will ever see.

Most folks here in Usenet naysay land, that are summarily stuck
forever with their one and only NASA/Apollo koran version of the
truth, are as such entirely unable to even consider upon any other
viable alternatives.  That's rather unfortunate that so much of
otherwise good talent and resources must be continually wasted, along
with such spendy decades upon decades blown for good.

Much of our salty old moon's surface has in fact become soft, though
obviously much of that moon's dusty surface is protruded by basalt, it
has obviously since been terribly impacted and/or having collected
everything including the cosmic kitchen sink.  In addition to it's
significant worth of gravity, it's also highly electrostatic charged
and thus far better off at having attracted and otherwise retained
most of the solar and cosmic flak that comes along, as certainly a
whole lot better off at keeping its nasty stuff than anything our
wussy magnetosphere manages to retain.

Unfortunately, icy proto-moons are still being officially topic/author
banished, as being as taboo/nondisclosure as is the truth about Iraq
and a good dozen other matters.  Even a simple topic of "What if
(Craters)" by G=EMC^2 Glazier gets the usual mainstream status quo
flak treatment, as a insurmountable gauntlet that's contributed by
those Old Testament fools trying their faith-based level best at
keeping the rest of us village idiots as snookered and/or as
dumbfounded as possible, and for the most part it has been working.

Folks here in this well orchestrated anti-think-tank Usenet of naysay
land, as such really haven't allowed us to seriously look at those
moon craters with any open mindset, whereas most of which are truly
massive yet unusually shallow craters within those larger and even
shallower craters, with much less their ever having associated any
potential of ice as having once upon a time covered that big old salty
sucker (I'm thinking to the tune of 262 km).

Of the most recent craters being 10 fold deeper by ratio to their
diameter means there was at that more recent time little if any ice on
deck.  Though I'd have to  agree that a great amount of common moon
dust by way of primary and secondary impact shards, plus local and
cosmic dust has contributed to filling in the vast majority of those
older craters, to the tune of such nasty composition being tens of
meters deep in the most fluffy of dry and uncompacted dark/sooty (aka
coal pit) looking stuff you can imagine.  I often think of our moon as
being a cosmic morgue, especially since nothing gets burned up prior
to impact.

You folks must realize that Sedna is a worthy icy proto-moon of
roughly 1500~1800 km, that's likely covered by as much as 500 km of
that dirty reddish and most likely salty ice.  In fact, most anything
Oort cloud or even Kuiper belt worthy is going to be and/or shortly
become icy.  For example, I can imagine the big rock and/or whatever's
the core of such a hard under-surface of Sedna being that of almost no
craters, as due to itself having been so nicely ice protected.

For benefit of further argument;  If such an icy proto-moon were
moving along from Sirius to Sol, say if that interstellar trek had
been taking at most a few tens of thousands of years (say incoming at
40 km/s and thereby lots of spare time for a little interactive cosmic
DNA sequencing to take place), I wonder how much extra ice and snow
build-up (in addition to whatever it originally had) one might expect
to obtain while exiting away from the read-giant pushing realm of
Sirius and obviously entering through our icy Oort cloud?

You'd think this kind of fundamental planetology and cosmology
research, as based entirely upon the regular laws of physics and best
available science, would become another one of those nifty 3D
simulation applications for a good supercomputer, don't you think.
Especially since most other moons and perhaps even a few planets of
this solar system seem as though having arrived after the initial
creation of our Sol and whatever local planets.  In fact, there's no
good reasoning to perceive that Earth was born of the very same exact
stuff as Sol.
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Brad Guth