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Mars is simply not hardly a slaty planet, and it's much older than
Earth.

I happen to agree with "Andrew Nowicki", that not one but many
significant impacting events must have morphed, iced down and
otherwise having so extensively salted the surface of Earth.  Of
course, there's no such proof that Earth originated within this solar
system, and there's even less proof pertaining to our salty moon.
Mars seems much older than Earth, and Venus seems much less old than
Earth.

How much if any sial is on that deck of our physically dark and nasty
moon?

How much of a planetology common element does salt account for?

At times of such an icy proto-moon representing itself as an incoming
NEO, as likely having previously passed so close to impacting, it must
have seemed exactly like the end of the world to many, and actually
becoming the end of the world to many others caught in its gravity and
aerobraking wake.  The actual glancing blow of that icy sucker upon
having accomplished its dastardly deed, whereas I'd have to think a
good third of most everything living upon this Earth would have been
killed off or traumatised well enough past the point of no return.

That "true geology" specified date of 11,700 BP also sounds just about
right on the money for the final lithobraking, ocean basin creating,
antipode worthy and seasonal tilt causing arrival of our moon, which
should have seriously kicked all sorts of planetology as well as human
butt upon its icy arrival.  At the very least the near miss of such an
icy proto-moon should have been downright interesting, if not a touch
lethal for a great many.

There should also have been those significant teratonne spacebergs of
moon ice falling upon Earth for a few thousands of years past the time
of that initial glancing blow.

BTW;  there's still nothing contained in any bible or koran, as
reasonably interpreted to our environment having that moon as of prior
to 10,000 BC (12,007 BP), or even of somewhat earlier or perhaps a bit
more recently.  When exactly was the first humanly made record of our
moon?

What do you folks think about complex intelligent ET life, as for such
having survived their extended interstellar trek, as safely coexisting
within a few of those proto-moon ice caves? (I know that even I could
do as much [how about yourself?])

Within such a deep enough icy moon cave (assuming all the way down to
the moon's surface) would have accommodated all the essential elements
for survival, including sufficient isolation from the bad sorts of
cosmic and solar radiation, and otherwise having provided loads of
easily accessible O2 for sustaining our kind of frail DNA/RNA.

I'm thinking our moon could have been covered by as much as a 262 km
thick layer of salty ice, of which obviously lost much of its icy load
upon encountering Earth, and especially that of our 1AU nearby solar
energy would have summarily evaporated and/or having solar wind
extracted all such vapors of salty ice that wasn't otherwise safely
sequestered underground.

That pesky GW traumatising moon of ours is still in the process of
losing the remainders of its naked surface element of sodium. (not
nearly enough gravity nor having a magnetosphere as to otherwise
prevent the loss of such ice and sodium)

Too bad the faith-based souls of this Earth are so afraid of their own
shadows.  Too bad we still haven't accomplished the Earth/moon science
platform as efficiently station-keeping itself within the moon's L1.
Too bad we're headed directly for WWIII over the remains of the
affordably accessible worth of global energy domination (including
yellowcake).  Too bad that so many innocent folks have paid the
ultimate price, with lots more about to pay their's (especially nasty
if being Muslim is their only option within their established family
traditions).
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Brad Guth