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Never heard of Theia, but colour me intrigued.
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Wikipedia has all the answers. It was depicted in the opening scene of Walking With Monsters, the prequel to Walking With Dinosaurs (yes, even that one was "prequel'd").
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Viva La Cucaracha!
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Could also be proof of the giant impact hypothesis. Simply put, another planet called Theia supposedly hit Earth and fused with it. Part of Earth/Theiabroke off and formed the Moon. Could that account for the differences in crust thickness and whatnot?
That's the hypothesis. The Theia/Earth collision causes a debris field which then aggregates into two bodies - our Moon and a much smaller satellite caught in a Lagrange point between the Earth and the Moon's gravity. As the Moon's (and the smaller satellite's) orbit drifts outwards from the Earth due to tidal forces, the Lagrange point 'decays' causing the smaller body to gently collide with the Moon, hitting what we now call the far side, and accounting for the difference between the two hemispheres. |
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Can this wait? I need to do some calibrations
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Man, I'd love to go to the moon and study it. Just from a Geological point of view, it would be amazing. There is the going into space part, but it would be fantastic to try and see which of these theories is most likely. Npt like that will happen soon  |
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The U.S. was supposed to go back to the Moon sometime before 2020, as well as setup a permanent research base up there. Obama put the kibosh on that, though. It is true that we have bigger fish to fry, but I think even with the plans NASA had outlined we would have been looking at less than 2% of the annual Federal budget going to the program.
There should be a proper international space agency. Imagine what could be accomplished if the U.S., Japan, China, Russia, etc pooled their resources for the advancement of all mankind.
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Isn't the ISS trying to kinda do that?
China's the next big player in space exploration. With the Yanks out of the game for the time being I wish they'd get on with it.
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*shrugs* Isn't it still crewed by members of nations own agencies, and really only localized to the station itself? Definitely a good first step, but not exactly the United Federation of Planets.
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