🚀 go-pugleaf

Can't you sum that up in a poem though?
(but you did make it accessible none the less)
p.s. might we hear from you in the future, despite our sorry lot?

<bradguth@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Sorry folks, as I'd forgotten that "sci.bio.evolution" was another NG
> moderated cult.
>
> "The planet that hit the earth to create the moon - Question"
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.science/browse_frm/thread/a287e0688a0ad7be/82c3bc8c5c24b8d8?hl=en#82c3bc8c5c24b8d8
> Jack Crenshaw
> Cra...@gmail.com wrote:
>> dumpst...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>>What happened to that planet after it hit the Earth?  Was it destroyed?
>>>Does it still exist somewhere?
>
>> It still exists as part of the Earth and as part of the moon.
>
>> Popular theories on the moon-forming collision say the dense core of
>> the impacting planet merged with Earth's core, while its crust splashed
>> off to form the moon.
>> Mike Miller
>
> : Not true. The accounts I've seen, gleaned from simulations, suggest
> : that the planet hit a glancing blow. True, it added to the earth's
> : iron core, but most of its mass continued on.  Only a glancing blow
> : -- and a particular angle at that -- yields a moon like ours.
> : Jack
> -
>
> Too bad the icy proto-moon itself couldn't have merely glanced off of
> Earth, and of not so long ago.
>
> It's a matter of regular old physics, whereas such lithobraking
> encounters simply were not all that uncomon. (could even happen once
> again)
>
> At some time near or shortly after the bulk or worse portion of that
> last ice age cycle, of which this planet will ever see, is when Earth
> got a good seasonal tilt worth of an impact, receiving a few spare
> thousand teratonnes worth of salty ice, having created another nifty
> ocean basin and the antipode, plus ever since we've been summarily
> thawing out, along with as much global dimming via humanly contributed
> soot and chemical polution as we can muster.
>
> A shift from a thermal energy sink worth of a highly reflective ice
> age, into going GW postal takes a truly great deal of applied energy
> over an extended period of time, some of which unavoidably becomes our
> demise via our self imposed global dimming and a few other facters
> that should never have transpirored to the extent we've allowed.
> However, the vast bulk of energy is off-world via gravity and tidal
> forces (applied inside and out) that arrived along with our more than
> somewhat salty and originally icy proto-moon.
>
> At least there's nothing within the regular laws of physics, or that
> of any known planetology which excludes such a recent event, and
> there's yet no clear objective evidence proving we even had that moon
> establish within it's relatively final orbit as of prior to 10,000 BC,
> if not somewhat more recently.
>
> For example, if that moon had ever been orbiting for any amount of
> time while being situated at half or that of much less distance, as
> such the applied tidal forces of at least four times the intensity
> (inside and out) would have been downright lethal trauma imposed upon
> most any significant form of existing life upon this newish planet
> that had gained more than it's fair share of salty oceans and of many
> other bodies of salty waters.
>
> All of the arguments opposed to this recent merger and orbital trek of
> our unusually massive and nearby moon are yet every bit as subjective,
> and otherwise extensively faith-based upon all such horrific things
> happing to our world in the very beginning of planetology formations,
> that which supposedly had nothing whatsoever to do with any other star
> or exo-solar system but that of our own.  I guess that means the
> Sirius star/solar system is Muslim, while our's is becoming a whole
> lot more Jewish mindset by the day.
>
> Damn few of us, including the honest likes of "Jean-Paul Turcaud", are
> simply not sufficient to alter the ongoing self-destruct mode of
> what's insuring a good part of our very own demise, that's also
> getting more spendy and otherwise lethal by the day.  Too bad we still
> haven't established zilch worth of any Earth/moon science as could
> have been easily and efficiently obtained from the superior
> perspective of having our instruments situated within the moon's (M--
>>L1---->E) sweet-spot, as of decades ago.
> -
> Brad Guth
>