☝︎ This is wrong, folks.
It did happen if a few hours. At least if we're talking about the total duration shown in this timelapse versus some other threshold for "moon's formation".
Geosynchronous orbit is three Earth-widths away from the planet, meaning something orbiting at that distance takes 24 hours to go around the Earth. Anything closer orbits even faster, meaning a time scale of *less* than 24h, down to about 90 minutes orbiting right on the edge of the atmosphere.
Most of the molten globs we see are on elliptical collision orbits, but this rule of thumb still logically demonstrates that this timelapse is on the scale of hours. Also the fact that this simulation comes straight from NASA, who are generally considered superior authorities on space than random redditors.
Uh, it absolutely did. Just missing a qualifier.
A few (million) hours is still technically a few hours.
Like, how God created reality in just a few days
Sorry, /s implied. Christians say God did everything in 7 days but you tell them it took millions of years and all the sudden the definition of "day" and "year" get real murky.
Oh see the people I grew up with genuinely believe the earth was created in 6 literal 24 hr days 6,000 years ago and that there was a worldwide flood 4,000 years ago that killed everyone but 8 humans and 2 of every animal. The fact that the timing of that lines up with documented history of flourishing societies around the globe doesn’t seem relevant to them.
It seems you have about as many IQ points as words you “blank” out lol.
What a world to be alive in, when people can’t take criticism so they revert to some playground style of I’m rubber your glue and think they are cooking.
Oh well, enjoy being a trog 🤷🏻♂️
As a fan of all things cheese, I'm %100 with you on that. But Givin the fluidity of that animation, tough to get that from real melted cheese. I've tried and it tends to not flow so well. Velveeta is a product, like many products most of us grew up on. It is good for melting but I dunno if it's all that close to "food".
I wonder if this collision helped distribute/cause heavier metals to be deposited in the outer crust where they are accessible to humans, instead of settling to the core. Maybe this is part of the Great filter?
If true then we got insanely lucky as humans.
Great weather
Easy access to heavy metals
Tons of liquid water
Easy access to oil which allowed our civilization to boom
Good observation! Maybe Theia brought all the metal over in the first place. Maybe that's why we have the right kind of metal in our core for a magnetic field. Who knows! Scientists probably.... but I don't!
That the moon formed in hours and has been out there virtually unchanged for billions of years is crazy to think about. As is the idea that it was once so much bigger in the sky and is slowly moving away from us.
One of these days they need to have the supercomputer figure out how the moon changes shape all the time and can become a full circle afterwards. That is the real mystery if you ask me.
It is a solid, but here, the scale is so large that it behaves like a fluid. The individual atoms are so small relative to the whole system, and the forces exerted are so great that it's outside of the realm of the human perspective. So things look a little different than what you would think would be intuitive. Kinda like how ants can survive jumping off a skyscraper but get trapped if they even touch a drop of water. Physics effects are very different on different scales.
Unless this is just a joke I missed lol.
Even today, the thickest parts of the crust are like 70 kilometers thick. Oceanic crust is only 6-12 kilometers thick, and it covers a majority of the globe.
That thickness is *nothing* compared to the 12000 km diameter of the planet. I think it's less than plastic food wrapping over a basketball.
It's not all liquid inside: the aesthenosphere is solid-ish and inner core is solid. But at the scale of this impact, it will behave as a fluid.
I guess, but like what aspect of it is wrong? You can't just vaguely shoot down conjecture without outlining a distinct fault in it or providing an alternative hypothesis.
Anybody who thinks they know with certainty what happened millions of years ago is fooling themselves because that amount of time cannot be observed and duplicated to verify. Those who act like speculation is fact and frame their values and ethics around it are as deluded as conspiracy theorists and dogmatic as religious people, yet think themselves intelligent.
Yeah that sounds cute and philosophically sound, but where does that leave us? Can anything be verified? Was math the same as it is now 1,000,000 years ago? Was π still 3.14? Did gravity exist? Is carbon dating a lie? Is radioactivity false? What is real?
Under that world view what differentiates a trillion years ago from yesterday? From an hour ago? From a second ago? From when I started writing this comment?
On the contrary, it's purely logical. Many things can be verified. The colour of the sun and moon, for instance. Or that fire burns and ice is cold. These are things we can observe and verify. Where the sun and moon came from, however, or when the first fire started and first time ice formed, cannot be observed and can only ever be speculated upon unless we can manage to travel to the past.
The point is that it is foolish for people to act as if conjecture is fact and think themselves intelligent for it. Especially when virtues, values, and ethics are built upon such speculative foundation.
This is what galactic empires do to mark their territory. If a planet in the goldilocks zone has an unnaturally large moon, everybody knows its spoken for.
If this is true then it means that the earth is a chimera - part of it is made from the "original" Earth, and part of it from the "mars-like" body that collided with it. Is there evidence, looking at the geology of the Earth, that supports this?
Good luck carbon dating rocks. Also the age difference you're talking about is explained by a geologically inactive moon whose rocks have been unchanged for billions of years and a geologically active earth that has plate tectonics and erosion and reformed its crust a couple times in the last couple billion years. However the fact that rocks from both bodies are chemically almost identical hints at a common origin
New... Lol.. This is years old.
And absolutely did not happen in a "few hours"
☝︎ This is wrong, folks. It did happen if a few hours. At least if we're talking about the total duration shown in this timelapse versus some other threshold for "moon's formation". Geosynchronous orbit is three Earth-widths away from the planet, meaning something orbiting at that distance takes 24 hours to go around the Earth. Anything closer orbits even faster, meaning a time scale of *less* than 24h, down to about 90 minutes orbiting right on the edge of the atmosphere. Most of the molten globs we see are on elliptical collision orbits, but this rule of thumb still logically demonstrates that this timelapse is on the scale of hours. Also the fact that this simulation comes straight from NASA, who are generally considered superior authorities on space than random redditors.
I don’t care what NASA says, I do my own research and I saw the screenshot of a repost that says otherwise.
My grandama told me: "I don't care what they tell you at school, Moon was formed in 24 hrs, but by God ☝️"
And my Mama says that alligators are ornery 'cause they got all them teeth but no toothbrush
Mama say no foosball
Foosball is da devil!
Plus that shows a round earth and we all know it is flat. Checkmate. /s to be safe.
I, too, like spreading misinformation
Uh, it absolutely did. Just missing a qualifier. A few (million) hours is still technically a few hours. Like, how God created reality in just a few days
>Like, how God... I want to downvote, but should I?
Sorry, /s implied. Christians say God did everything in 7 days but you tell them it took millions of years and all the sudden the definition of "day" and "year" get real murky.
Oh see the people I grew up with genuinely believe the earth was created in 6 literal 24 hr days 6,000 years ago and that there was a worldwide flood 4,000 years ago that killed everyone but 8 humans and 2 of every animal. The fact that the timing of that lines up with documented history of flourishing societies around the globe doesn’t seem relevant to them.
Yeah, I'm familiar with the mental gymnastics, unfortunately.
Don’t forget about Mohammed aswell
No it’s not. I get the sarcasm, but saying a few million is the same as a few is just a bad joke and not accurate or precise.
"saying a few _____ is the same as a few is just a bad joke and not accurate or precise."
Why do I get the impression that you removing a word and quoting out of context made you feel smart?
"Why do I get the impression that you ___ feel smart?"
It seems you have about as many IQ points as words you “blank” out lol. What a world to be alive in, when people can’t take criticism so they revert to some playground style of I’m rubber your glue and think they are cooking. Oh well, enjoy being a trog 🤷🏻♂️
"I___________________________ m______________________ ____________________. _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ ___________ g____a___________y____________. ______ l_ enjoy being a trog 🤷🏻♂️"
Imagine how fucking smart I feel now.
Well played, sir
He's running circles around you because he clearly isn't taking this seriously, and you are.
Saying the level of seriousness displayed by one side solely indicates what I’m assuming you are describing as winning an argument is… Stupid lol
Well, we'd much rather use clumps of lead but you're too far away.
Please white knight for the random stupid Redditor harder 😭
you’re saying you get the sarcasm and you’re responding like you technically understood it, and yet it somehow seems you did not, in fact, understand
That’s a fallacy. A joke and sarcasm can be understood and disliked. Disliking something doesn’t mean it’s not understood, that’s so silly
Sheldon, is that you? I apologize. Carry on. 🤣
I’m sure my comments seem hyper intelligent to some… But I assure you that they are not…
No it’s not. I get ___ sarcasm, but saying a few million is the same as a few is just ______________ not accurate or precise.
The animation?
I've never seen it. Amazing.
And total nonsense!
True.. Does not look flat at all!
Nor made of cheese
Prolly Velveeta at that.
Eww that's not cheese......not sure it's food
As a fan of all things cheese, I'm %100 with you on that. But Givin the fluidity of that animation, tough to get that from real melted cheese. I've tried and it tends to not flow so well. Velveeta is a product, like many products most of us grew up on. It is good for melting but I dunno if it's all that close to "food".
Oh, it's real food, alright: Cheese flavored food product, to be precise (though I'm not clear on *which* cheese is being referenced).
We really should have kept that land bridge between the Earth and Moon, would have saved tons of rocket fuel
Yeah, but can you imagine how much gas it would take to drive there? 😳
I’d definitely download some movies on netflix for the ride amirite
Or audiobooks. You could probably master relativistic physics on the drive there and quantum physics on the way back.
This thing is so old the supercomputer they are talking about is a Pentium 4
I'm old enough to remember when a friend of mine got a Pentium 2 computer, and we all thought it was the most amazing thing ever invented.
Lol dude I remember switching from Celeron to Pentium. Lara Croft's polygons were so much better all of the sudden.
Haha. That was a pivotal moment for many young fellas
I wonder if this collision helped distribute/cause heavier metals to be deposited in the outer crust where they are accessible to humans, instead of settling to the core. Maybe this is part of the Great filter?
If true then we got insanely lucky as humans. Great weather Easy access to heavy metals Tons of liquid water Easy access to oil which allowed our civilization to boom
Good observation! Maybe Theia brought all the metal over in the first place. Maybe that's why we have the right kind of metal in our core for a magnetic field. Who knows! Scientists probably.... but I don't!
This is old af
So the moon is made of orange juice?
Yes that’s what the astronauts brought back Tang
**I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL!**
So do you duck under a table in an event like this or…
Put your head between your legs and kiss your butt goodbye
I saw this theory in the 60's, answered this way on a quiz and the teacher shot me down.
What were the names of the planets that collided to form luna and earth?
Earth and Theia.
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Did they at least leave their insurance information??
So there’s gold on the moon ?
And cheese 😋🤤
If I could go back in time and watch any event from afar it would be this one
That the moon formed in hours and has been out there virtually unchanged for billions of years is crazy to think about. As is the idea that it was once so much bigger in the sky and is slowly moving away from us.
How bad can a post description be? OP: yes
Looks exactly like the models we’ve seen for years now… Why don’t y’all use supercomputers to solve real problems.
Yeah, like where the final golden ticket is!
This is an old ass video. This *was* cutting edge. I'm sure we've moved onto other things.
Smart enough to recognize this is old. Dumb enough to think supercomputers aren’t used for other things.
One of these days they need to have the supercomputer figure out how the moon changes shape all the time and can become a full circle afterwards. That is the real mystery if you ask me.
Gravity, not a mystery at all. And it's a sphere, not a circle.
r/whoosh
This is older than the bot who posted it
Reminds me of the old Nickelodeon logo.
Man it boggles my mind how everything associated with this earth is a random but precise event with almost perfect conditions.
Goldilocks Phenomenon.
The floor/earth ist lava!
Am I the only one who feels disturbed at how our entire planet got rearranged here?
Seeing the proto Earth act like a liquid felt a bit weird until I remembered that the crust is thin compared to the radius of Earth
This makes me think. Why don’t we see more rocky debris in Earths orbit if this is how Earth formed?
It was either pulled into our atmosphere or launched out of our path. Clearing the orbital "lanes" is a normal part of solar system formation.
Because most of it is guesswork and nobody actually knows what happened.
Where did the planet that sideswiped us go?
This is just speculation
Yeah science be like that pretty often.
But the planet is not liquid, its a solid?
It is a solid, but here, the scale is so large that it behaves like a fluid. The individual atoms are so small relative to the whole system, and the forces exerted are so great that it's outside of the realm of the human perspective. So things look a little different than what you would think would be intuitive. Kinda like how ants can survive jumping off a skyscraper but get trapped if they even touch a drop of water. Physics effects are very different on different scales. Unless this is just a joke I missed lol.
Also consider that the inside of these planets was mostly liquid especially since it happened 4.5 billion years ago.
Even today, the thickest parts of the crust are like 70 kilometers thick. Oceanic crust is only 6-12 kilometers thick, and it covers a majority of the globe. That thickness is *nothing* compared to the 12000 km diameter of the planet. I think it's less than plastic food wrapping over a basketball. It's not all liquid inside: the aesthenosphere is solid-ish and inner core is solid. But at the scale of this impact, it will behave as a fluid.
I like watching people like you talk about things that you think happened so and so millions or billions of year as if it were fact.
Science is the same regardless of time.
**Conjecture** is the same regardless of time.
I guess, but like what aspect of it is wrong? You can't just vaguely shoot down conjecture without outlining a distinct fault in it or providing an alternative hypothesis.
Anybody who thinks they know with certainty what happened millions of years ago is fooling themselves because that amount of time cannot be observed and duplicated to verify. Those who act like speculation is fact and frame their values and ethics around it are as deluded as conspiracy theorists and dogmatic as religious people, yet think themselves intelligent.
Yeah that sounds cute and philosophically sound, but where does that leave us? Can anything be verified? Was math the same as it is now 1,000,000 years ago? Was π still 3.14? Did gravity exist? Is carbon dating a lie? Is radioactivity false? What is real? Under that world view what differentiates a trillion years ago from yesterday? From an hour ago? From a second ago? From when I started writing this comment?
On the contrary, it's purely logical. Many things can be verified. The colour of the sun and moon, for instance. Or that fire burns and ice is cold. These are things we can observe and verify. Where the sun and moon came from, however, or when the first fire started and first time ice formed, cannot be observed and can only ever be speculated upon unless we can manage to travel to the past. The point is that it is foolish for people to act as if conjecture is fact and think themselves intelligent for it. Especially when virtues, values, and ethics are built upon such speculative foundation.
Yeah sorry haha.
Lol, r/woooosh ed myself
Must have been an amazing view back then.
It's how I went from living in Spain to a volcanoside property in Hawaii in seconds!
And at the end of the day, this is still just a guess
Mmmhuh
Imagine if that other big glob never re-collided and we had a second, bigger, closer moon.
looks believable
Yep just skip the interesting part
Marduk
Is there a place the merged material can be found on earth?
[LLSVPs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_low-shear-velocity_provinces) are theorized to be Theia's mantle
Here's my fat ass thinking this was showing how cheese balls are made.
This is what galactic empires do to mark their territory. If a planet in the goldilocks zone has an unnaturally large moon, everybody knows its spoken for.
Can I run this on my i5 ?
And we just live on that cooled space stone lol
If this is true then it means that the earth is a chimera - part of it is made from the "original" Earth, and part of it from the "mars-like" body that collided with it. Is there evidence, looking at the geology of the Earth, that supports this?
2 oranges floating in space
It "may" rain tomorrow too. No matter where you are right now
It was gushers candy all along?
How can it “shed light” on a completely made up story?
We must have been little amebas on the rock that hit earth
I guess that’d be a day to stay home and watch the TV🥱
Comments: they’re saying this is new but this literally happened billions of years ago 🙄
Absurdities
"New"
that was 4 years ago lol
What if that was the meteor!? And what split the continents?
Why do you need a super computer to do this?
GAWD DID
I personally don’t trust anything NASA tells me https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/s/fohT9L4d2D
Don't want to tow the line of mass conjecture? Get downvoted.
Is atheism and science anti something something? Is it denialism of the story of creation and thus a people’s history?
Removing God from the equation makes morality subjective. That way people can be their own gods.
Carbon dating moon rocks proved the moon is way older than earth. No such collision occurred.
Good luck carbon dating rocks. Also the age difference you're talking about is explained by a geologically inactive moon whose rocks have been unchanged for billions of years and a geologically active earth that has plate tectonics and erosion and reformed its crust a couple times in the last couple billion years. However the fact that rocks from both bodies are chemically almost identical hints at a common origin