Shining a Light on our Crazy Moon

I look out early this morning at the 96% waxing gibbous moon reflecting magically off the snow in the yard and look up to ponder about how much influence it has over all of us here on planet Earth. Our moon is so very different from any other satellite around any other planet in our solar system. You can read a newspaper at midnight under the light reflected from its crystalline diamond-like surface.  There are no other planet-moon situations in our solar system like the one we have. There is nothing else like it, and to make it even more intriguing... our moon wasn't always there. At one time, before 5400 years ago, there was no moon in the night sky... then one night, there was. There are many Native American tales about the time that the moon first appeared. Cosmologists are uncomfortable with the subject, but will confirm that the moon was not always in our night sky. And they will also tell you that at the time it first arrived it was only 22,300 miles from Earth - close, indeed. From the time it arrived it has gradually moved away from the Earth by about an inch and a third each day, so that now it is at a comfortable distance of 238,000 miles from the Earth.

As large as the moon is, it doesn't rotate, it has no electromagnetic fields, and no molten core like other satellites in our solar system. Even the lunar rocks brought back by the six Apollo missions do not line up with the history of rocks on the Earth.  There is about a 500-million-year discrepancy between the two bodies. The moon is certainly not a chunk of the Earth that was broken off by some ancient cosmic collision.  It is a traveler that has come from afar to settle permanently in our night sky.

During the Apollo missions, astronauts left behind various instrument packages at each landing site. Four of those packages included mirrors that would bounce back laser beams projected at them from the Earth. Every day astronomers take measurements of our distance to the moon. That's how we know its momentum is gradually taking it away from us.

The Tycho crater is so large it's rays extend over the entire face and would cover North America if whatever meteor caused it had hit the Earth, but the crater is extremely shallow – not what one would think from what must have been a very large collision. Whatever hit the moon to cause such a large crater certainly had considerable force, but it hardly put a dent in it.  Very peculiar!

I've been to Meteor Crater in Arizona. It is about a mile wide, compared to 3000 miles for Tycho, and Meteor Crater is about a thousand feet deep, yet the meteor that caused it was probably no larger than a VW bug.  Just how large of a crash caused Tycho, one has to wonder!

Unlike the Earth, the moon is covered in some kind of extremely resistant armor. The astronauts discovered that the moon is covered by a fine crystalline charcoal-like reflective powder, but no more than about an inch thick. Underneath the surface dust, the moon is like hard metal – so hard that it was nearly impossible to drill a hole deep enough to put up a flag for pictures.

Astronauts also left behind four seismographs.  Whenever each landing mission abandoned their Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) after the astronauts were back in orbit in their Command Module, they jettisoned the LEM into the moon to test the moon's seismic response from the crash. No one expected it to ring like a bell. The Earth would not do this. On the final seismic test of crashing the LEM back into the surface, the moon resonated for three days. Very peculiar for any celestial body.

The moon is a fairly sizable satellite at 3600 miles in diameter. Scientists believe that the its thickness is only about 500 miles, however, based upon the resonant vibrations that resulted from our seismic crash tests. That means the inside is hollow – a voided area of about 2600 miles across. So what's in this void??? Maybe the people that piloted the moon here in the first place! Who knows!

Neil Armstrong on our first manned mission to the moon very clearly stated that there were other beings with craft lined up on the rim of the crater watching them the entire time they were there. That would unnerve anyone to find advanced alien life forms observing you on what you thought was the first time anyone had ever been there. After leaving behind more than 20,000 tons of scientific equipment, waste, and garbage with six missions, maybe the reason we stopped going to the moon is that we were asked not to return by the resident alien population after dumping so much of garbage there and bombing the hell out of the surface several times. Maybe they let us gather a few rocks and collect some dust and told us never to return! Maybe we got run out for littering!!!

The moon's surface is covered in tens of thousands of craters, but we have never seen a meteor hit the moon to cause a new crater. Not one.  Wherever the moon came from, it must have gone through a major meteor storm, or maybe it was next to a planet that exploded long ago... yet it still survived.

It begs a conjecture that the moon may be artificial – not a natural satellite. Maybe it is really a Death Star like in Star Wars!!! If so, then who moved it into Earth orbit? Is there some intentional agenda associated with the moon that we are unaware if? And what (or who) exactly is inside it? And it certainly makes one wonder what kind of propulsion system could have moved such a large body with such precision to end up in Earth orbit?  Hmmm!!!

A perfect space ship would be a sphere. If the moon is artificial it makes sense that it would be spherical. It is perfectly round. Unusually perfect. We can see that in the night sky or when it blocks out the sun during an eclipse. Not even the Earth is perfectly spherical. What's with that? And there is not another moon in our solar system that is even close to round or spherical; they are amorphous at best; they look more like potatoes. To have been hit by another meteor so hard to have formed the Tycho crater, the moon should certainly not be perfectly spherical. Yet it is. The odds of that happening are next to impossible. No wonder Luna drives us crazy!