The People That Think the Moon is Hollow

[@RossTheNinja]

Thousands of years ago, we knew it was made of cheese. When we finally got there, it was dry rock. This is why you don't leave cheese out for too long.

[@MrT------5743]

If the.moon was made from BBQ ribs, would you eat it? I know I would. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYKnooWigsp9arc

[@paavobergmann4920]

I once found a dry rock with a cheese label on it at the far side of my fridge. That unequivocally proves your theory right, doesn´t it?

[@robnunya572]

If only we'd got there earlier, our cheese woes could've been solved. Damn you, pre-historic technologists!

[@ivanivonovich9863]

That is why it was made from "green Cheese!"

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

I wonder what happens to food on the vaccuum of space? Does the lack of admosphere preserves it more? Does the cosmic radiation destroy it?

[@Nails077]

The moon was built by the dinosaurs, who dug out the grand canyon to mine the materials for it. Then they all moved there to escape the flood.

[@shaunfletcher7658]

That makes so much sense! Its so obvious! How could anyone not see it?

[@laserad]

brilliant

[@RedMac63]

You've probably just started a new conspiracy theory without realising it, because some bone head somewhere will believe it because they read it on KZbin.

[@bobblum5973]

"Dinosaurs! On a spaceship!" - _Dr. Who_

[@fandangobrandango7864]

Yep, flown up on pterodactyls.

[@BryanAlaspa]

Oh man when Dan began reciting all of the moons and celestial objects in tidal lock I just started laughing and could not stop. I needed a laugh today. Thanks. Dan.

[@slovnicurling9808]

I started cringing because there were cuts before every name and bad ones at that because sometimes you could even see he is looking at some paper or something. Couldn't he remembered at least two or three before making another cut? :D Or at least make the cuts better? That was really awkward.

[@elwoodzmake]

@@slovnicurling9808 While Einstein was in Boston, staying at the Hotel Copley Plaza, he was given a copy of Edison’s questionnaire to see whether he could answer the questions. As soon as he read the question: “What is the speed of sound?” he said: “I don’t know. I don’t burden my memory with such facts that I can easily find in any textbook.” Nor did he agree with Edison’s opinion on the uselessness of college education. He remarked: “It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”

[@abubacar]

@@slovnicurling9808 I’m sure he could name a handful or more, but for the sake of the video, the cuts work better.

[@jezuconz7299]

Yes like, it just boggled me how they just blatantly lie at your face saying that tidal locking is a rare thing... Do they even bother? My god

[@monchyd6519]

„Experts“: you say there are other moons like our moon? If yes name every single one Scimandan:

[@meggubravo8373]

"Tidal Lock is really rare in our solar system" Sci Man Dan: *basically does Yackos world but for moons*

[@madaemon]

"In order to have sentient life on this planet, you need to have a stabilizer that keeps it rocking on its axis." Meaning that, if there WERE no such stabilizer, there would be no sentient life to observe the chaos, so it's a GIVEN that a sentient species on Earth would exist at the same time as said stabilizer. We're in "isn't it amazing Earth has so much oxygen, which just happens to be what we breathe" territory.

[@Jrez]

Exactly, Earth may be "rare" in the statistical sense regarding all planets as a whole, but the universe is so vast that even incredibly rare circumstances can still coincide. We are here because odds are it has to happen somewhere. It's called the Anthropic Principle (actually there are two, the weak anthropic principle and the strong anthropic principle.). Douglas Adams uses a great puddle analogy: “If you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!"

[@AnalystPrime]

Someone did a comic book about whole history of Earth and life on it, one of the characters tried to point out how unlikely the chemicals of life happening just by coincidence is. Another answered, "thousands of cubic miles of ocean, millions of years of time. I like those odds."

[@Roozyj]

Yeah, they make it sound like the Earth already had a sentient species and either they or aliens thought 'well frick, the weather's all out of control. Let's put up a giant moon' and then made the moon and put it in axis around the earth. Or an alien spiecies (I haven't heard them talk about God, which would make a ton more sense in their story tbh) wanted to put a sentient species on Earth and decided to first make a moon, so the weather should stabilise.

[@AnalystPrime]

@@Roozyj Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from godlike power.... Fun fact time: We could move Earth and Moon like that with our current tech, it would just be very slow and horribly expensive. Good news is that as part of that project we would be mining Moon and asteroids for massive amounts of valuable minerals and produce more than enough solar power to solve any energy issues Earth has.

[@Roozyj]

@@AnalystPrime I mean, sure, but usually conspiracy theorists like these - or at least flat earthers - are religious, so I'm surprised they didn't bring up god when they were talking about some being putting the moon in its place

[@darrenharris5159]

"You can't just say Isotopes" I want this on a t-shirt. The sun/moon ratio points drive me crazy. It's pretty much established the moon used to be much closer to the Earth, we know it's still moving away a few inches every year so in a few million years it won't even have such an ideal ratio anymore we just happen to catch it now at this interesting point. Such a human centric view.

[@davidlawrence5148]

Waiting for the day Dan says "actually: quantum mechanics forbids this"

[@gorillaau]

Some might even call it an ego centric view. "I am right so will disregard other facts and ideas. Yes, I am still right!"

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

There are plenty of "progressive" ideas that are just as anthropocentric. One segment of the population is pretty clearly insane or otherwise cognitively disabled, but the rest aren't much better off. They're just more interested in "happier" lies. It all boils down to the old testament versus the new testament. Both are factually and logically bullshit with no redeeming factors of any kind, but people tend to prefer one story over the other. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Humanism and similar concepts are no different than "Flat/Hollow Earth" and such. They just sound better.

[@Llortnerof]

@@DoremiFasolatido1979 I dunno, i'm perfectly happy ignoring both as stupid, and most non-christians probably don't have much trouble with that, either. Also, you actually catch more flies with vinegar than honey. Flies don't particularly care about honey.

[@chemicalwonderland2492]

Right? And they failed to mention that you only see a total eclipse from specific points on the earth right in the middle. Most people live in regions where they only see a partial eclipse.

[@gorgenfol]

I'm truly impressed by how much those guys just repeat the same thing over and over again. Almost as though they don't actually have that much to say...

[@davidwaynemain]

Nothing original. Since Darwin they have been stuck on explanations (theories) that sound good but have no backbone in fact. Whatsoever.

[@Naiki_Eri]

Just ignore em. Next thing you know the sun is a triangle, the stars are bieng projected by aliens and the earths a cabbage.

[@atlys258]

@@Naiki_Eri Earth a cabbage?? Cabbage man will be disappointed when he finds out how poorly we're treating it. 😕

[@hristoborisov3713]

pretty much any conspiracy ever, hanging to a single thing that is just a speculation

[@masterzoroark6664]

I mean That's how preaching works

[@djdeemz7651]

What happened was - A long time ago Dark Vader parked the Death Star in orbit around earth and retired from he moved from the far away Galaxy to here as he had a bad name in that galaxy but here no one knew his name , he started a small colony on earth and became a farmer and found a wife called susan and had two children , he wrote the story of star wars down and buried them , 300000 years later George Lucas found what vader had buried and wrote star wars and that story is true .

[@wallenss1]

The moment Dan starts laying out just how "rare" a celestial body is tidally locked in our solar system killed me.

[@trevorjensen2706]

Likewise.

[@-HustleUnion-]

its not that rare. there are many within our own solar system. many moons sync up like this and get tidally locked. veritasium had a good video about this.

[@SlaughterhouseJTV]

@@-HustleUnion- The word “rare” was put in quotation for a reason. I think you may have missed that. The original commenter is fully aware that it’s not rare

[@-HustleUnion-]

@@SlaughterhouseJTV i made the mistake of commenting before the whole video was over lol. he rattled them all off shortly after i made that comment but i just left it.

[@EwanMarshall]

Especially when all orbits eventually become tidally locked. How quick it happens depends on mass and distance, but tidal locking is the lowest energy state and therefore the one that will eventually happen.

[@WombatMan64]

Scariest thing about this is how authoritative they sound. The production value here is a bit higher than a lot of other complete drivel. They might be able to convince some people.

[@drewmur]

Sadly, when something has good production value and the people look professional and speak in a clear and authoritative way, many people tend to believe them. Especially if the person does not know much about the subject in the first place.

[@Moz29]

Might? Look at their viewership. Same people that believe magnets heal you or that witchcraft is real.

[@Spiderantula]

@@Moz29 yeah it's scary. And their ads are allowed everywhere on Google and Facebook. Makes me sick.

[@Anonymous-md2qp]

That’s how religions work. Thousands of building, costumes for the important people, billions of brainwashed follows. It convinces the most uneducated and desperate people very successfully.

[@JO-ch3el]

To me they don't sound authoritative, more like exact opposite. Each of these 'experts' is special in their own way, and I stress the word 'special'. I especially dig the fat hairy troll in a tie-dyed t-shirt and the super tan white haired dude in flower pattern shirt. Pure gold. Honorable mention - black guy in a 3 piece suit.

[@PatrolNation]

If I can quote a great man....."Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese" Wallace and Gromit

[@darthgorthaur258]

Well I think this has saved me watching this vid...cheers...

[@anthonypirozzi837]

Wesley Dale Cheese I believe

[@tyr9499]

I hope its brie cheese

[@IAmMorts]

@@anthonypirozzi837 Wensleydale*

[@Sableagle]

@@anthonypirozzi837 Wensleydale. Used to be called Yoredale, and you can still find some remnants of that name in a few places, including Jervaulx Abbey. It takes quite a bit of messing around with old French and Norse to get from Yorevale to Jervaulx, but they managed it. The river's called Ure, not Yore, these days. It starts between Swarth Fell and Abbotside Common, just south of the headwaters of the River Eden. The Eden flows north-northwest to Carlisle and then west into the sea almost at the Scottish border. The Ure flows southeast and east through Wensleydale, out into the Vale of York and south towards York. It gets renamed "Ouse" where it picks up Ouse Gill Beck, which is a really silly name for a stream because "Ouse" just means water and "gill" and "beck" are two different names for streams, so it's "water stream stream." I guess that's what happens when you point at a thing, ask a local what they call it and write down whatever they say. Along the way, Wensleydale also takes in Garsdale, Cotterdale, Widdale, Fossdale, Raydale, Bishopdale, Apedale, Coverdale and the apparently nameless valley of the River Burn ("Burn" being a Scottish name for a stream, so they did it again!) just below Masham, along with a lot of smaller streams before it gets to West Tanfield and "Yorkshire's Favourite Pub 2016." Below that you get Ripon and Boroughbridge, so you can pretty much stop at West Tanfield and skip from there to York, really.

[@Pooknottin]

Thanks for this one Dan. You've cleared up some things for me. I'll be showing this to some friends of mine as I think they could do with your perspective on the matter. Looking forward to the next one - I know how crazy it gets.

[@jursamaj]

• Regarding eclipses: note that that author says "no more and no less". Dan mentioned annular eclipses, which are less than fully covered. But even among full eclipses, most would be *beyond* fully covered, with room to spare. If this were not so, the Sun would only be fully covered for a moment, before immediately coming out on the other side. So it is in fact both more *and* less. Even the 31% of full eclipse category is too much to give him. The thing is, we know that the Moon is receding. We can measure it. So, millennia ago, there would have been *no* annular eclipses. Millennia hence, there will be no full eclipses. We just happen to live in the time when both are available. • I find it hilarious that the next guy says the Earth's climate is just right to be comfortable for us… as demonstrated by the people in the accompanying clip being bundled up against the cold. The he mentions the 'hypothetical' possibility of tides destroying property… as demonstrated by the massive (but ordinary) waves smashing on the shore. It's like they're trying to tell us they are lying. • Regarding deep craters: Imagine an event that would create a hole 200km across and 100km deep (a hemisphere). Now obviously, it's going to put a lot of energy into the surrounding rock that isn't throw out. Thus, the walls will be either melted, or broken up. What's going to happen to that melted/broken stuff? It's going to fall into the hole, of course! And thus, the whole will get simultaneously wider and shallower. What kind of craters do we see? Why, we see wide, shallow craters! • The simple truth is, no material which could exist on the Moon can possibly be hard enough to 'armor' against impacts that can gouge out the craters we see on the Moon. And if it could, what we would see would not look at all like what we do see. We'd see the 'armor' exposed at the bottom of the crater. Also, we left seismic sensors there. When big rocks hit the Moon, we can see how the Moon 'rings' in response. It behaves like we expect. If the Moon were significantly hollow, it would ring in a very different way.

[@mechanicalmonkee6262]

Holy crap my brother wrote a whole ass essay

[@unclebrat]

You are correct that the Moon is receding: however, the recession rate is smaller than you suppose. The state of no annular eclipses would demand more than mere millennia.

[@jursamaj]

@@unclebrat I never specified how many. A million years are a thousand millennia, billion years are a million millennia. I just didn't chose a term like 'eon', which has no clear meaning.

[@jursamaj]

@@Kevin-pv6px Of course things fall on the Moon. It has less gravity than Earth, but it still has gravity.

[@HaloForgeUltra]

If the moon isn't hollow how can the Moon Cell fit inside it?

[@hoej]

At least they got one fact straight and really hammered it out: there is no Dark side of the Moon, only a Far side.

[@Sofa.king.sleepy]

"As a matter of fact, it's ALL dark.... " 🎶🎶

[@Tubluer]

Strange isn't it. You get on the logic train in the Land of Mythology and it always seems to arrive at mainstream scientific theory.

[@Robert08010]

I'm just grateful they didn't speculate that Gary Larson retired there.

[@Tubluer]

@@Robert08010 Heretic!

[@robsku1]

@@Robert08010 Ssshhh! You're blowing our cover!

[@ParaSytius]

To quote the last two lines of Monty Python's Galaxy Song: "And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."

[@brucetucker4847]

I have never been able to bring myself to sign an organ donor card after that movie.

[@zeeksthegoblin7564]

You are G.O.A.T.

[@battlesheep2552]

Imagine a parallel reality in which the Moon never came into existence, and whatever life developed to survive on this moonless planet made documentaries about how it's amazing their planet is moonless because life would never have been able to develop while under the ravages of tidal forces

[@JarrodHahn]

My favorite part of the hollow moon theory is thinking about the pissed off alien overlords who thought they had an easy job just watching us destroy ourselves. But now they have to figure out how to deal with the zoo animals climbing all over the surveillance base.

[@stevenschnepp576]

If they didn't plan for our probing and exploring the perimeters of our enclosure, they deserve what happens when we find them.

[@MongoTheMagnificent666]

@@stevenschnepp576 lol If they are advanced enough to create such a massive surveillance base, travel through space effortlessly, etc., then what exactly do you think we could do to them? We would be annihilated dude

[@oxymoron02]

@@MongoTheMagnificent666 Stephen has been watching too many US-centric blockbuster films lol

[@kevinmould6979]

@@MongoTheMagnificent666 ...and after all that, why stop?

[@justgiz]

Them talking about the moon's apparent size being nearly perfect to the size of the sun, but yet somehow miss that if it wasn't so perfect, we'd say shit like "man if it was just a little closer, wouldn't that be crazy", or we'd probably never even wonder at all. Its just sheer coincidence that it fits that way. There is an infinite number of things that don't fit together, but when you find that one rock that fits perfectly in that one hole perfectly, that means there's a grand conspiracy about the rock being created for that hole.

[@hannibalhess833]

Waitasec... it is NOT perfect. Not alone the annular eclipses prove that sometimes the moon diameter is _smaller_ than the sun's one, but even every total eclipse that is _longer_ than zero seconds proves that at this time the apparent moon diameter is _larger_ than the sun's one. Otherwise the sun would appear just a blink later on the other side of the moon's disk. Every 3-minute-eclipse shows that it takes the moon to travel for three minutes to show sun's disk again so the moon diameter is larger this angular value. Flerfers will never get it...

[@davidohara7669]

Shaping the hole to exactly fir the shape of the water ...puddles after a rain.

[@Roozyj]

Yeah, you're right. Nobody's talking about the fact that the moon fits perfectly in the Indian Ocean, because it's not true. Nobody's talking about the fact that the biggest sea on the moon looks exactly like Europe, because it's not true. Nobody's talking about the weird shaped ancient volcano on the North Pole of the moon, that might suggest an entrance to the hollow inside, because it's not there.. xD

[@Car_Mo]

@@Roozyj There's a whole field of studies dedicated to this, it's called theology. Teaching people to ignore facts that don't validate or straight out contradict the existence of god and teaching how to reinforce the random occurrences that can be molded to suggest there is a god at work in the background. Numerology also does a great job of suggesting that 1+1=2 is a "magic occurrence".

[@Reedstilt]

Conspiracy theorists: The Moon's a spaceship! SciManDan: No, it's not. Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur: Well, not yet. But give us time.

[@mclovin6039]

Love me some Issac Arthur 👍🏽

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

Issac Is Awesome

[@eaglestdogg]

Ehhh, the amount of thrust that would be required to move the moon would make it extremely inefficient. Asteroids would make more sense.

[@marie-clairelafleche4448]

Reading that in both Dan and Issac's voices was awesome and made me laugh. Thanks for this!

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

@@marie-clairelafleche4448 indeed

[@dieseljester3466]

"Its so rare for a moon to be tidally locked!" SciManDan: Proceeds to list EVERY moon and planet in the solar system that its common.

[@daveh9521]

How I love listening to these "experts". I'd especially enjoy that 'Uh-oh' moment I'd get when having a great conversation someone who sounds like they know what they're talking about, then at some point, they reveal just how bizarre they really are. This used to happen a lot when we'd hold public astronomy nights where people could look through the large telescopes.

[@chattywalrus8485]

Do you still hold those public astronomy nights? Do you still take weirdos? I remember one night at the astronomical observatory: "wow, that's one big telescope you have there!" "Why, thank you! And this is the telescope for the public!" "Oh... :/"

[@TriggeredLimey]

@@chattywalrus8485 🤣🤣🤣

[@cliveadams7629]

Is that a telescope in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

[@forcakong2396]

@Wulfric Nailed it. Universe inside you is amazing. Love the narrator and wish they would put out more videos.

[@Robert08010]

@Dave H My club has one for a member. Up until recently, I thought he was brilliant. He knows the sky like the back of his hand. But just before covid lock down he told me the government is controlling the speed of light because they don't want us going any faster than that. Ummmmm... Ok?!? Later on he mentioned he had forgotten to take his meds. I thought, "That explains a lot."

[@Robert08010]

To amplify your point about how the moon is not "the exact right size", in addition to annular eclipses, there is also the various lengths of total eclipses. If the the Moon were some extra special exact right size, a total eclipse would only last for 1 instant. The existence of annular eclipses and the various length of total eclipses both go to prove that the size and position is only "just right" to a degree but eclipses take place over a range of distances and apparent sizes.

[@RockinRobbins13]

Yes, in addition to being smaller than the Sun during annular eclipses, the Moon can be the same amount too large to cover the Sun and produces a longer total eclipse that way. The difference between the Moon's perigee at 225,000 miles and its apogee, at 252,000 miles accounts for this.

[@annk.8750]

Not "an instant". The earth is rotating, and while it does so, the moon and the earth are still moving in relation to each other and to the sun, so the eclipse describes a path.

[@unclebrat]

@@annk.8750 I believe the thought was for a single, stationary observer. The observer would see totality, in this special case, only for an instant before partial occlusion. Observers along the path would also see an "instantaneous" totality, albeit at different time intervals.

[@Robert08010]

@@annk.8750 Exactly. If there were some exact magical relationship that indicated a hand of God intentional sign... if they were the exact correct size... THEN an eclipse would only last for one instant. The simple fact that eclipses vary in length or sometimes are annular, proves that there is narrow-ish range, not a magical exactly perfect sign. I believe in God but I don't believe he is putting signs all over the place to prove his existence.

[@WukongTheMonkeyKing]

And the "right size" is also right now. Not earlier, and not later, as the moon's orbit is slowly increasing. Not noticeably in a human lifetime, but on a planetary time scale.

[@117-OG]

To quote a documentary I watched again recently: "That's no moon"

[@jbirdmax]

LMAO 😂 My favorite documentary of all time!

[@invisiblekincajou]

1) Actual Death Star is Mimas. 2) They are showing debunk for their own statement about shallow armored craters - craters INSIDE craters. Its obvious that bottom of inner crater is deeper than of outer.. sigh. 3) Why they are showing us Iapetus (17:47) ?! Or *every* cratered body in Solar System is artificial?.. or they just dont care about what to show?

[@Xarou]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4WXpJutipmMmZY - Bad Lip Reading's "It's Not A Moon"

[@monsterguyx]

Before watching a video on the hollow moon theory... "I've got a bad feeling about this."

[@starmanda88]

🥇

[@frankcastle13]

"The backside of the moon is like Manhattan." Haha! Absolutely on a legendary level of lunacy xD

[@mattstanford9673]

“Tidal-lock is really rare in our solar system.” Dan: “Except about 80% of the solar system.”

[@crystalgiddens7276]

anyone who has visited other planets would that!

[@EdwardHowton]

Those of us old enough to remember VenomFangX's heyday will recall him saying that the Earth had the only Moon in the entire universe. Meanwhile, Jupiter inconveniently had 79 moons and the entire solar system has... 219, it seems. I wonder if that's a revised count with new discoveries and different criteria, I thought it was just over 100.

[@crystalgiddens7276]

@@EdwardHowton anyone who has lived on those planets would already know that!

[@NBM397]

@@EdwardHowton Wow, Venomfangx. I had completely forgot about that religious loser.

[@robertcampbell8070]

@@EdwardHowton Goodness, I forgot some of VFX's greatest hits, like earth has the only water in the universe, the oceans used to be freshwater, and the Grand Canyon was dug in 5 minutes.

[@DenisLoubet]

Clearly we need to pit these guys against the flat earthers. That would be a hilarious clown-fight.

[@matrix26uk]

Watched a show that got all the conspiracy nuts together in 1 room and they ganged up on the flat earther!

[@NickJaime]

Lol watch the so called history Channel, they've done stuff like that. It turns into a crazy calling crazy match. Which is funny for a few minutes.

[@marsbase3729]

Dude, you are truly the heart of the Non Probets! You inspired me years ago to be more critical of religion and not give them a free pass and to finally leave Christianity behind. Rock on brother! 👍😎👍

[@DenisLoubet]

@@marsbase3729 Thanks man! It was the feedback from people like you that kept us going! :-)

[@getmotivated2426]

Dude the flat earthers believe the same thing.

[@maisiesummers42]

On the eclipses ("arbitrarily" my arse), the moon is actually slowly moving away from us. The sun is also slowly growing in size. In about 600 million years (depending on calculations), there will be no more total eclipses. So enjoy them while you can, kids.

[@chrisstraley2002]

I just want the "Curb your enthusiasm" music to play when Dan shows the pictures of the backside of the moon, while that guy is talking about there being a "Bright Manhattan, and highways" on the dark side of the moon XD Love you ManDan

[@reme7903]

Gaia is a goldmine of tinfoil tuesday worthy videos. I'm a spiritually minded but also a critical person and them spreading bullcrap is sad. Thanks for fighting the ignorance Dan!

[@silverlightsinaugust2756]

I want to get Gaia for fun.

[@President_Starscream]

He's not wrong about clandestine operations on the dark side of the moon though.... that would be us Decepticons.

[@q.e.d.9112]

“The Dark side of the Moon” is actually a misnomer. Great album, though. Although half the moon’s surface is dark at any time, that half rotates round the surface during the course of the lunar month so that the idea that the far side is the dark side is plain wrong When it’s New Moon on Earth it’s full illumination on the far side of the Moon and when it’s Full Moon here, the far side is in darkness.

[@skeletonwar4445]

@@q.e.d.9112 Well you see, the Decepticons just drive around at the speed of the moon's rotation, so they constantly stay on the dark "side."

[@robnunya572]

So, did you win, or did the space Nazis win? I'm confused...

[@Llortnerof]

@@q.e.d.9112 It's dark in the sense that we can't see it. Not literally dark. Though clandestine operations still wouldn't work. Sure, we can't see what's happening on the other side... but you can't get to it or away from it without being visible. Especially since the Moon is smaller than Earth, so eventually you're going to have to leave its shadow if you actually want to go anywhere.

[@d-five7265]

Not a single one of these so called experts mentioned "The Clangers"

[@starmanmacropolicebox6486]

Very happy to see the cameo of Moonbase Alpha! Any other 1999 fans about?

[@vegurion2]

You can clearly tell that all the bases are camouflaged with Lothlorien capes. So this picture doesn't prove anything Dan!

[@wolfsrevengecan]

Lothlorien? Harry Potter made the capes from his invisibility cloak. Quit spreading misinformation!

[@vegurion2]

@@wolfsrevengecan everyone knows that Harry Potter is a fake story fabricated by NASA. Go do the high IQ research man! I have atleast 100 tabs open and a subscription to sceptic magazine.

[@Kyrelel]

@@wolfsrevengecan Leave him alone, he obviously needs attention from like-minded children.

[@sandwichgrumpachung3034]

@@fraskf6765 You say sarcasm. We say prepare your butts for the moon men.

[@sandwichgrumpachung3034]

@@Kyrelel Someone was absent on "how to infer sarcasm or parody" day.

[@antiformsora]

I was recently corrected on this by my astrophysics professor: Mercury isn't actually tidally locked. It has a spin-orbit resonance that's almost exact but not quite.

[@MrT------5743]

It has a 3:2 resonance.

[@russbaxter1806]

It used to be thought that it was tidally locked, but then they found it was the 3:2 resonance. Isaac Asimov once managed to fall foul of that, having written a short story that relied on Mercury being tidally locked, only to find that between writing it and it appearing in print science had moved on to prove him wrong.

[@simond.455]

@@MrT------5743 Those resonances in the solar system are a fascinating topic.

[@pNsB]

I groaned when I saw “Gaia” in the corner. I heard about them in a video by Genetically Modified Skeptic and to make a long story short, you could debunk every second of content they have.

[@FixYourGameplay]

I saw that one too. The also have a lot of conspiracies around healthcare and crystals. Pretty scary

[@jasonarthurs3885]

@@FixYourGameplay Crystals? Now I know this is legit.

[@geraintwd]

Yeah, seeing that logo told me everything I need to know about this video. David Icke was the final nail in the coffin - he's so far divorced from reality, he's paying it alimony.

[@markharris1125]

I've only just caught up with this video, so sorry for being late. I'm a bit surprised you hadn't heard about this theory - I remember reading a book about it called 'Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon'. I've always been fascinated and bewitched by the Moon and used to read everything I could find. Of course it's not true, but doesn't a little, tiny bit of you wish that it were? Just imagine what we'd find inside. There's a big budget film coming out soon called Moonfall, starring Halle Berry and Sam Tarly from Game of Thrones. From the trailers it seems to be based around this very concept. Stupid? Probably. Am I going to see it? Of course. I love the Moon. And I do so wish it was a spaceship. [Edit: having listened to the very end. Ah, you've revisited the thoery in a later episodee. Looks like I posted on the wrong thread. Still, I shall leave it here.]

[@heatshield]

David Childress is a major part of the Ancient Aliens series. Sometimes you can hear him making things up as he goes. He'll pause long enough sometimes, that I'll correctly predict what he says next, kinda like with flerfs.

[@coreymunroe8073]

I thought I recognized him from somewhere else. My roomie watches that garbage. It makes my brain hurt.

[@jordanshilander7402]

I like how his analysis tends to go from 1 to 100 really quickly. He was talking about the pyramids once and said how crazy it was to think people carved the stones by hand, "they must've had some kuind of laser or diamond precision cutting tools". Obviously that makes more sense lol.

[@radarlockeify]

I thought it was George Lucas's brother!

[@jbirdmax]

@@radarlockeify lmfao 🤣

[@jbirdmax]

That right @Jordan Shilander I remember watching one of those episodes at my “genius” sister in law’s house. He was referring to a rather large slab of granite and proclaiming it to weigh in at 600 tons! Lmao. It looked like maybe six.

[@colindeller3709]

Just reminds me of a scene in Red Dwarf where every time something weird happens Rimmer shouts ALIENS. A capsule arrives in their space ship and it is in actual fact a rubbish pod, but Rimmer decides its alien tech and names the alien builders Quagaars (double a) and theorises a whole civilisation around it. I laughed at that scene a lot, I laugh at these people in the same way. I wouldnt be surprised if the scene was a dig at these head cases that just make stuff up.

[@drunkenhobo8020]

It's a garbage pod. It's a smegging garbage pod!

[@jeffreynelson8083]

Adding to the humor is the fact that one of the premises of Red Dwarf is that there are no aliens at all in the universe. Life only originated on Earth and nowhere else. Any of the weird creatures we see in the show were either androids, genetically engineered, etc. Rimmer was never going to find his aliens.

[@jaymorgan8013]

I loved Red Dwarf!

[@DarrenSaw]

The perfectly preserved remains of a quagaar warrior! 🤣

[@gorillaau]

@@DarrenSaw Quick, better get that life pod open then. Not a quote but near enough for conversation purposes.

[@4zap7]

For a group of people so obsessed with “observable” evidence they sure do make some bold claims don’t they.

[@JP-st9hn]

Wrong people. You are referring to flat earthers. These are hollow mooners.

[@Lemurquito]

I would say hollow headers, and flattards are flatbrainers

[@TravisW888]

I can't stop watching from 6:50 and the answer to the "rarity" of tidal locks in the solar system. I can see pictures of them all filling the screen as he's saying them all. Just the way he says "Yes, really rare" is classic.

[@MandleRoss]

I looked into this one a few years ago because the evidence sounded solid. It isn't. But the moon is.

[@FaethorFerenzcy]

Pluto and Charon... the greatest lovestory of em all. Maybe someone should give the "Moon is hollow-Guys" the movie Iron Sky.

[@raymondluxury-yacht1638]

That's a deeper truth than you possibly know, James Christy, the astronomer who discovered Charon, named it after his wife, Charlene.

[@goldenknight578]

Well, Pluto kinda needed someone to turn to after being kicked out of the League of Planets.

[@colinplatt1963]

Yes! Nazis on the moon is a far better explanation!

[@donkmeister]

Surely Theia and Earth are a greater love-story? They smashed each other so hard that the Moon was born.

[@midnight8341]

@@raymondluxury-yacht1638 well, not quite... The moon was officially named after the god Charon who ships souls to the underworld, where Pluto reigns. The fact that he the first four letters of his wifes name were also Char- was a happy accident that he gladly took.

[@LeePorte]

Ah the dark side of the moon.... What an album!

[@slevinchannel7589]

Pseudoscience has a Growth-Spurt right-now cause the Conservatives funneled Money into it to harm LGBT+? I wanna raise Awareness so i comment this. Yeah, this is happening: A massive Slander-Campaign against Trans People that Professor Dave Explains and Planarwalk try to oppose, but thats hard. Please inform yourself and choose the not-hateful side in a giant War on Trans-Peoples Human-Rights, led by a guy who politely requests a re-classification of an entire Minoritygroup as ‚mentally-ill-by-default’ (!!?!!) and is at War with Professor Dave now.

[@Tommyr]

I'd like to thank the parents and teachers of the world for doing such a great job with the children.

[@smoceany9478]

i mean, i know some friends who would disagree with the parents of the world doing great job with the children

[@Tommyr]

Learn what sarcasm means. @@smoceany9478

[@FPDirtyTeaLeaf]

"Beneath the Moon's crust is a very hard exterior shell" Wouldn't that make it interior then?

[@amanofmanyparts9120]

I would tend to use the word 'subsurface'. lol

[@midnight8341]

No, you see, it's like with insects and their internal exoskeleton.

[@emanwe01]

Which translates to "beneath the moon's surface rock is more rock." Yep, must be aliens. I love these people!

[@acerbicatheist2893]

True... but any notions of logical progression went straight out the window as soon as the person became a FLERFER, so much so that keeping a coherent thought together for long enough to express it remotely adequately becomes...less likely, shall we say? I must be in a good mood, because I'm usually not as kind and tactful towards the "FLERF community". 😈👍🚬🌎🐂💲♓ℹ️✝️❗🔊🎼🎶🎶🎶

[@sebastianortega1938]

Wouldn't it make sense for the Moon to have more than one exterior shell? One exterior outer shell (crust) and one exterior inner shell? The only difference between both exterior shells is that one of them is outside and the other is inside, but both are exterior, they are individually and mutually exclusive of each other while being inclusive. #MakeTheMoonINGSOCAgain

[@smoothwalrus9354]

When they say that tidal locking is rare, I tell them, "you're talkin' out Janus"

[@superpantman]

Is far more rare to find a moon that isn’t tidally locked!

[@chloeirnes]

Then I can dig it!

[@randycampbell6307]

Janus? "A Manned Reentry Vehicle with Staged Reentry"? (arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.28224?journalCode=jsr) :)

[@chloeirnes]

@@randycampbell6307 He's a complicated Manned Reentry Vehicle with Staged Reentry and no one understands him except his woman!

[@raverdeath100]

the fact that they spent 30 seconds talking about the impact theory and then 10 minutes talking about whether the Moon is a spacecraft tells me all i need to know. David Icke will hitch on to any bandwagon to remain relevant. it's amazing what can happen if you smack your head against a goalpost.

[@geraintwd]

I'm starting to think head injury might be the most plausible hypothesis here. That, or he realised he was never going to make it as a professional footballer and decided to make money writing books about complete nonsense.

[@richcotton4974]

Aaggh! You know, I love David Icke. Even when he makes a left turn then steps on the gas, I enjoy listening to him. It's a bummer when someone starts off doing good and reaches a point where they double down and can't admit they're right about some things, and way wrong about others. So it goes.

[@Its419games]

"They're hitting something really solid." Yeah. The moon. 🙄

[@almightyshippo1197]

You'd think that part was obvious, but apparently it's not that obvious to everyone.

[@justafrog3167]

Wouldn't building something the size of the moon make it collapsed into it self? Since we know the mass of the moon, does it possible to build such structure, assuming enough resources?

[@MrRolnicek]

@@justafrog3167 It is certainly possible to build something that size or even bigger. You can make arbitrarily large structures in space of course but if you're contending with gravity (even the Moons lower gravity) it will place constraints on your structures. Aka. a concrete building can only be so tall before the concrete fails on you. BUT this only applies to PASSIVE structures, structures that are held up simply by the resistance of materials from being crushed. Active structures on the other hand can absolutely sidestep these limitations and do infact allow us to potentially build arbitrarily tall structures even here on Earth. People are at the moment not quite willing to invest in such structures because of the obvious drawback that if your power goes out, the whole thing collapses like a house of cards.

[@justafrog3167]

@@MrRolnicek i mean with the size and the mass of the moon does it possible for it not collapsing into itself?

[@MrRolnicek]

@@justafrog3167 Like I said, with passive structures it is not possible. It would indeed collapse in on itself. But with active structures you could do it, you'd just need to keep them powered. If you want to know more about megastructures and active support I suggest watching videos on the topic from Isaac Arthur

[@_i_c_]

People really out here thinking we live in The Truman Show.

[@Mandelbrot_Set]

Planarwalk released a video about that a few minutes ago.

[@marksoftime]

13:25 “The moon was a spaceship, built by extra-terrestrials or possibly humans in the past” I laughed so hard at the facepalms because I knew it was coming 😂😂

[@christophercripps7639]

To quote a line from "Month Python's Flying Circus:" "My head hurts..." because I forehead palmed so hard.

[@Fistrike]

It was even funnier when i noticed that a minute or 2 before that they said that without the moon human existence would be impossible, so humans wouldn't have been there to build the moon that would allow themselves to exist

[@richardg8376]

@@Fistrike Contradictions like these are inevitable when your only goal is to gather together any quotes or viewpoints from recognisable people that support your hypothesis in isolation from each other, and package them up as a documentary to give it the facade of research.

[@LordOOTFD]

Gurren Lagann CONFIRMED

[@EvicFiniteGen13]

You don't think the little moon can be created? You know everything you see, the sun, planets and stuff in the universe is all created.

[@fartsmigee5687]

This is easy to prove. Mathematical models show the moon only tidally locks if it is 90% hollow.

[@kidkunjer]

i love watching these crazy documentaries and making a note of their experts, then looking them up and what they are selling. It's like finding a rich seam of gold, if the gold was crazy bullshit.

[@asthmatickobold7844]

A lot of these guys are regulars on "Ancient Aliens." So...there's that.

[@elwoodzmake]

Oh man, I just tried that with the guy at 3:59 and beside books on Alien technology he also wrote a book on Yetis and Big foot. 😆😆

[@Captain_Pudding]

Let me guess, no credentials but willing to sell you "the truth" for three easy payments of $19.99?

[@EdwardHowton]

_Our resident expert agrees that the Moon is a spaceship_ The resident expert: "I make a line of artisanal hand soaps using shavings of my corns and cultures of my bottled urine!"

[@kidkunjer]

@@asthmatickobold7844 love that show.

[@fred_derf]

Aside from them completely missing annular eclipses, even on a total eclipse the moon is (generally) BIGGER than the sun, not exactly the same size (I'll grant that there may be incredibly rare occasions when the moon and sun appear exactly the same during an eclipse).

[@anmoldeepsingh7907]

Ngl, Pluto and charon are the best couple in the whole Sol system. Hope no one is going to ruin it. Edit: Boys and girls take notes from Pluto and Charon.

[@Stegibbon]

Pluto's even got a love heart on its surface. So romantic.

[@RoburDrake]

I can't help but hear Jonathan Coulton's song, "I'm Your Moon," in my head.

[@kevincaruthers5412]

After a bit of thought, I think they may be on to something. The moon is incredibly useful in creating conditions friendly to life. When humanity advances to the point of creating planets and seeding life, we should seriously consider placing a moon similar to our own in orbit about it. :)

[@frocat5163]

"31% of the time, it happens every time." - SciManDan, 2021

[@craigscott2315]

the moon is in an elliptical orbit. If i made observations in my garden with a tennis ball and football it would say it doesn't. To be honest not sure what side of the isle you are seated? So not sure if my response is relevant? I believe proponent, so ignore comment.

[@tombrown9394]

they've done studies you know...

[@jacksonrelaxin3425]

What’s it like being a loyal pay-pig to a fraudster?

[@craigscott2315]

@@jacksonrelaxin3425 why do you need a fake account?

[@jacksonrelaxin3425]

@@craigscott2315 HE BE SHILLING FOR FREE MMMMMM YES DANNY GIMME MORE MERCH

[@greedycapitalist8590]

Minor correction - Mercury isn't tidally locked to the Sun. People used to think it was, but it's now known that it rotates once every 59 Earth days, and it orbits the Sun once every 88 Earth days.

[@martinmckee5333]

True. It's not tidally locked but has an even cooler 3:2 spin/rotation resonance that leads to on Mecurian day being equal to two Mecurian years.

[@JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

Another major part of the sun/moon apparent size similarity is that the moon formed much closer to the earth, and slowly over billions of years have been drifting away. It is still slowly drifting, current rate is 38 km per million years, and in billions of years it will appear much smaller.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence.

[@alainrobillard4300]

So, the coincidence is just a matter of timing. Far in the past, full eclipses were more frequent, lasted longer, and there was no annular eclipse. Far in the future, full eclipses will no longer exist. Only partial and annular eclipses.

[@WalterBislin]

The chances of a moving moon of a certain size to appear the same size as the sun at a certain time is 100%. It’s not an unbelievable coincidence. It’s inevitable.

[@tonyhogg9839]

If we were here a million years ago, then people would claim how it's impossible that the moon is large enough to totally block out the sun completely. No matter how it is, it's impossible. If the moon wasn't tidally lock, then that would be impossible, and they would say a tidally locked moon is easier and more common. Some people just want things to be impossible and unexplained so they can explain it for us.

[@Mandelbrot_Set]

@@WalterBislin Hi, Walter! I heard a rumor that David Weiss admitted to you that he calls "globe Earth" functions in his flat Earth phone app. Do you have any information about this?

[@eugenemartone7023]

Common, you have to admit the apparent size of the sun and moon is a pretty wonderful coincidence. It’s just a coincidence (in our time I guess) but it’s still amazing.

[@SHDUStudios]

Ah, yes, Gaia, a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[@334nickg]

"You could always do things on the backside of the moon".....pretty sure that requires a long conversation and the consent of the moon. That announcer dude is super dirty.

[@charlesdreadful5997]

Dan, none of the featured authors mentioned the high levels of cheddarium, a cheese like isotope. 'Experts'? I think not!

[@almonkey1]

like how they use a still photo of moonbase alpha from space 1999! the 8 year old me would love that to exist, and I'm typing this with two eagle transporters on a display shelf two feet above my head ( standard pod, and lab pod with axillary boosters in case anyone wondered!)

[@DjVortex-w]

"the odds are a zillion to one." Is that an SI unit?

[@myself387]

No

[@davidlawrence5148]

Zillion to one chances crop up 9 times out of 10

[@Llortnerof]

@@davidlawrence5148 That's million to one chances. Zillion to one only work 80% of the time.

[@PayasYouListen]

The whole "Moon at a perfect distance to appear the same size as the Sun" thing kind of falls apart when you remember that the Moon is slowly receeding from the Earth, so it's only really true (31% of the time) for this particular era we live in.

[@stephenandrusyszyn3444]

Nope. It is only really true for maybe 1% of the time. The rest of the time the Moon is smaller than the Sun or *larger than the Sun.* If it were always exactly the same size, not only would there not be annular eclipses, all total eclipses would be instantaneous.

[@JasonDrennen]

If the moon was rescinding slowly enough for humans to see it then how hasn't it hit again by now? We're talking millions of years. On top of how many millions of years would it take to cool after supposedly slamming into Earth? yet somehow only bouncing a couple hundred thousand miles away and not disturbing Earth's orbit around the sun? The problem is people think they know just because they were told I'm not sure how the moon got where it's at. I do know it would defy the law of gravity with two large objects being as close as they are and somehow still not colliding. However if I looked at the metal theory it would make a little more sense. The Earth and the Sun both have a magnetic pool if you put an object the size of the Moon possibly made of iron in between they both would pull equally keeping the moon in orbit. It would also pull equally keep that object always facing One direction. So I'm not sure how the moon got there but I do believe out of the millions of years Earth has been around it's very possible another civilization has thrived like we have. If we have traveled to space and build a space station in under 100 years imagine what a civilization a thousand years more advanced than us could do? The crazy thing is there would be no trace of that Civilization because the Earth's surface would have been melted down and recycled by now. Either way try to swing a marble into a large marble breaking them apart then putting the marbles back together without leaving a Trace.

[@Deebz270]

Total solar eclipses are seen on Earth because of a fortuitous combination of circumstances. Even on Earth, the diversity of eclipses familiar to people today is a temporary (on a geological time scale) phenomenon. Hundreds of millions of years in the past, the Moon was closer to the Earth and therefore apparently larger, so every solar eclipse was total or partial, and there were no annular eclipses. Due to tidal acceleration, the orbit of the Moon around the Earth becomes approximately 3.8 cm more distant each year. Millions of years in the future, the Moon will be too far away to fully occlude the Sun, and no total eclipses will occur. In the same timeframe, the Sun may become brighter, making it appear larger in size. Estimates of the time when the Moon will be unable to occlude the entire Sun when viewed from the Earth range between 650 million and 1.4 billion years in the future. [wiki refers]

[@Deebz270]

@@stephenandrusyszyn3444 What? How can a total eclipse be instantaneous (regardless of circumstances) ? And even at the closeset point (at perigee) the moon never appears larger than the disk of the sun, certainly not in this eon, nor thereafter.

[@stephenandrusyszyn3444]

@@JasonDrennen- Please take university level physics before spouting of more BS like that. It is very clear that you have no understanding of gravity, the laws of motion and orbital mechanics (not to mention magnetism and geology).

[@Xarou]

David Icke: "What they were describing, long before it became fact in the Star Wars movies, was the Death Star." "Fact", you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

[@adammullarkey4996]

6:55 Mercury isn't tidally locked. It just happened that the second photo of the planet was taken at the same time of Mercury`s day, so it looked like it was tidally locked. Subsequent pictures have shown that this isn't the case.

[@Marconius6]

15:20 Ohhh, he's pronouncing mare, the Latin word for sea, as mare, the English word for a female horse... that's how you know they're a top-tier expert on the subject.

[@bobblum5973]

I wondered about that myself. I thought it was pronounced "mah-ray", not "m-air" as you pointed out. But then I had no problem pronouncing Uranus as "you're-A-nuss", only recently hearing people explicitly saying "YOU'RE-a-nuss" to avoid the bathroom humor. 😌

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

I think the alternative pronunciation for Uranus came about in the late 70's or early 80's because of squeamish Americans. It's mentioned in ET at some point. Either way, the Mares on the Moon definitely shouldn't sound like horses. [EDIT] Ok I just remembered it's derived from Ouranos, which probably had the stress on "Ou", but I still prefer the "your anus" version because that's how I've always said it (and because it's comedy gold).

[@bobblum5973]

@@DavidSmith-vr1nb That's how I learned to say it as well. My main concern is to pronounce it correctly, regardless of any humor it may bring up. These days almost every word has a slang definition or double meaning, making it harder to be clear. As for that fine family film, _E.T. The Extraterrestrial,_ there's a line in there near the beginning when the boys are arguing at the table that references a sexual act. Most people tend to forget it's in there, but I understand why they chose to put it in there.

[@Marconius6]

@@DavidSmith-vr1nb Well it's a Latin word, so pronouncing it your-anus was already an alternative pronunciation, in a sense.

[@KommissarKel]

David Childess is featured: "oh, so it's Aliens then" I see him presenting and immediately know to discount anything said and just enjoy the acid-trip to follow. My favorite ancient aliens is still one of the first few episodes: on egypt "they didn't have the wheel" ... "These are clearly giant circular saw pits".

[@nomsdeguerre315]

did not see your comment, i guess i can delete mine :)

[@sanytram1]

They had chariots, difficult to build without wheels!

[@KommissarKel]

@@sanytram1 to be fair to Ancient Aliens' first claim... The pyramids were built about 600 years before the chariot was invented. But it is the whole disconnect of circular saw for cutting stone but couldn't figure out the same thing would make moving the stones easier(while also having either cranes or tractor beams; and the latter is not a joke, it was a theory in the same episode).

[@fomori2]

"I see him presenting and immediately know to discount anything said and just enjoy the acid-trip to follow."-- It is a testament though that people with above average ignorance and below average IQ can still make a name for themselves.

[@trevorjensen2706]

The Death Star is REAL?! Hang on....🤣 The tidal locking being, "rare," followed by ScieManDan naming all of our solar systems moons locked, had me busting up laughing By the way, this, "death star" creation theory reminds me of something I would hear from a radio show called, "Coast To Coast A.M. It's definitely a show that is entertaining to say the least. I wonder which beings made the moon. 🤣

[@darthwiizius]

I thought it was the Clangers

[@marylynne9104]

@@darthwiizius - Definitely the Clangers.

[@davidcleary9510]

I think @SciManDan should do that again, but this time to the tune of the Can Can, like the Periodic Table Song.

[@trevorjensen2706]

@@darthwiizius, is that a radio show as well?

[@darthwiizius]

@@trevorjensen2706 I never heard it if it was but I do remember the TV show as a kid.

[@netkat7486]

Well I came to this video thinking one thing and left thinking another. I didn't know of the Giant-Impact Hypothesis but definitely looks plausible... Off to do more studying!

[@anthonypirozzi837]

"When the moon........hits your eye like a big pizza pie That's Amore" (Dean Martin)

[@chris1275cc]

So, Dean Martin was trying to tell the world that the Moon is BOTH flat like a pizza and hollow like a pie! OMG we are through the Lookingglass here people.

[@Mike-me3sp]

And that was discovered in 1953 and NASA never denied it! Proof!

[@richardhall6034]

Those giant olives 🫒are a dead give away

[@Sherwoody]

🎶Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day🎶

[@guntercouvreur6786]

Exactly what went through my head.

[@Dooguk]

Hang on! So we never went to the Moon but we are building secret bases on the far side?

[@markchip1]

Not bases - film studios in which to fake the Mars landing!!!

[@justgiz]

7:35 This whole video reminds me of that quote from Douglas Adams about the puddle waking up and thinking how the hole they're in is made perfectly for them. Yet missing the fact that they would've come about no matter the size and shape of the hole.

[@robsku1]

The real mystery is how on earth could I have forgotten about this :O

[@philhughes1961]

The lunar ascent module was jettisoned to crash onto the moons surface on Apollo's 12 & 13 and the result was a lasting resonance / moonquake that lasted several minutes longer than scientists expected

[@PercivalBlakeney]

Maybe the far side of the moon is actually where Arthur C. Clarke's monolith is buried. 😋

[@droppedpasta]

Pfft, it’s in Tycho Crater, everybody knows that! 😜

[@PercivalBlakeney]

@@droppedpasta Oh thank you... now why won't you let our ships land at Clavius Doctor Floyd? ☺️

[@twarlex]

"*Almost precisely* the same apparent size". Yeah. I can almost precisely predict next week's weather: it's possibly going to rain around here at some point. But maybe not.

[@sophierobinson2738]

Might possibly be hot. Depends on where you are.

[@awareqwx]

Assuming the target is big enough, a projectile striking an incompressible target of similar density at high velocities will only leave a crater about as deep as the projectile was tall. The material of the target will be forced sideways by the impact at a speed proportional to that of the projectile, and by the time the projectile has moved a volume of material roughly equivalent to its own it will have lost all of its momentum. The crater will be wider if it's going faster, but not deeper.

[@WingNuts2010]

Not sure about that. The holes left by a 50 cal bullet is a lot bigger than the size of the bullet.

[@awareqwx]

@@WingNuts2010 But are the holes usually made in a solid block of lead? That rule only applies if the projectile and target are made of materials with similar density, and if the target is substantial enough to fully absorb the energy of the impact

[@simond.455]

@@awareqwx The craters are formed by the explosion of the impactor. Because of the great velocity, the ground has no time to be compressed and almost all kinetic energy is transformed into thermal energy, instantly vaporizing the asteroid / meteoroid.

[@awareqwx]

@@simond.455 How much deeper would the explosion make the hole compared to just the kinetic impact? It seems like the ground would just absorb the downward component of the blast, with only the outward and upward components actually contributing to the crater.

[@AgentPepsi1]

It's not tidal lock that is really interesting, but the orbit of the Moon. Also, the Moon has far too much mass for it to have been captured by the Earth. If it was created through collision, it would have significantly more density, but not as dense as the Earth. The Moon is very unusual in comparison to the moons orbiting other planets, but probably not some "spacecraft"; or have "bases" on it. Our Moon is the only one in the solar system that will give a total eclipse (vs, partial eclipse. It covers the sun to a virtual 100%, and not an over-coverage as the moons of Saturn or Jupiter would). I think with this video, Dan, you might want to admit there are a lot of odd things about the Moon that cannot be explained properly at this time.

[@T.E.S.S.]

lol @ when the guy says "sentient beings like ourselves" - not sure you really qualify there, buddy

[@saoirseoreilly6750]

That “face-palm” cut scene cracks me up every single time

[@tonyippolito7580]

I Just when i thought flat earth took the cake, you have to bring me hallow metal really old super alien death star moon people. Humanity can't take much more of this Dan.

[@notintere5ted]

Scientists themselves have stated that there a peculiarities with the moon - it's too big and too close for the size and gravitational effect that the earth has. It has also been stated that the moon is hollow but that can just mean that it is riddled with volcanic tubes. They discovered this when crashing an old satellite into the moon and found that the moon "Rang like a bell" which it shouldn't do if a totally solid body.

[@brianmvalley5634]

Childress: when the moon..... Me: hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore!

[@virus640]

I sang the lyrics as soon as I heard it.

[@ThoughtandMemory]

Classic!

[@jonathanc7642]

"It's not deep enough. I don't know how deep it is but it's not deep enough." -.- Riiiiiight.

[@jasonsabbath6996]

"That's what she said" - Michael Scott

[@TruthNerds]

Flat Earther: I can see too far! Me: How far should you be able to see? Flat Earther: Doesn't matter! WAT?

[@christiansyversen3935]

These people… I think it’s safe to say that “Dark Side of the Moon” was playing as he/she wrote this surrounded by a “mist” of sorts, if you catch my drift…

[@Robert08010]

Suddenly... I'm famished!

[@GnrMilligan]

You should do some merch Dan. I would buy a T Shirt with "But probably explainable!" over a montage of tin hat type of illustrations!

[@dragonweyr44]

So, the moon, which has been around for billions of years, is a Death Star? The so called moon base shown is in fact from the 1970s tv series Space 1999 À

[@Anenome5]

When you explain that being tidally-locked is caused by the moon having a lopsided center of gravity, it makes it seem a lot less unusual or unlikely. I used to think it was an amazing coincidence before understanding there's a mechanism behind it.

[@jursamaj]

Moon lopsided? More like oval.

[@MrT------5743]

@@jursamaj the side of the moon facing earth is more dense and has a higher surface gravity than the far side.

[@jursamaj]

@@MrT------5743 They variation in gravity over the entire Moon's surface is less than 1.6%. That's not the cause of the tidal lock. As the term 'tidal' implies, it's due to the tides that Earth raises in the surface of the Moon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking#Mechanism

[@MrT------5743]

Yes you are correct. I didn't mean to imply the variations of the moons gravity densities caused the tidal locking, but it is the reason the near side is facing the earth and the far side is facing out. The near side has larger craters that filled with molten rock from deeper within the moon. The far side has a thicker lighter crust. Now this is not a large effect (Like you said 1.6%), but it is measurable. Here is a picture of the gravity densities of the near vs far sides. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_of_the_Moon#/media/File:MoonLP150Q_grav_150.jpg

[@sterling4014]

Thank you again Dan. I have never seen the photo from the Discovery spacecraft. That photo is absolutely beautiful. 😍

[@kamaha0010]

Always nice to see you Dan, welcome back to my recommends.

[@requiem4adream87]

heh for David being such an expert he seems to have forgotten about perigee, apogee, perihelion, and aphelion. Swear that guy will say anything to make a buck these days.

[@kimothy1701]

For a second there I thought you were casting the spell from bedknobs and broomsticks. Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee

[@craigscott2315]

oh, i don't think in know what those are. Could you clarify?

[@requiem4adream87]

@@craigscott2315 perigee is when the earth is closest to the moon, apogee the furthest, perihelion is when the earths orbit is closest to the sun, aphelion furthest. As a result the angular sizes of the moon and sun change between those so if you get say a solar eclipse when the moon is closer and the sun is further then it will be annular where the moon is too small to block out the entire sun. It confirms elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun and moon around the earth. That's why I got a kick out of David's claims. He should know better so he has to be lying just to make a buck pushing his nonsense conspiracy stuff

[@craigscott2315]

@@requiem4adream87 I remember when Mr Icke misunderstood the t spot of the brain stem. Personally his views and opinions resulted in massive arguments with my children's mum. I have a on/off attention span with Mr Icke. What pisses me off most, is he tells people to do research, few if any do even the basics! And has a tendency to over exaggerates some problems or issues. So, the omission of scientific definitions that where not (that i know of) present in the video's discussed, you believe grounds to discredit an astronomer?

[@craigscott2315]

@@requiem4adream87 cheers for the definitions. I do appreciate you answering in a timely manner. I prefer the human element over google. Seems you understand the terms well enough?

[@namelessuser666]

I bet the family Christmas dinner with these guys are always funny. Just imagine...

[@DiggerEvans]

Yes they get their diplomas from the contents of Christmas crackers

[@Fistrike]

Did they really go in a few minutes from "if the moon wasn't there we wouldn't even have ever existed" to "we created the moon"? So did we come before the moon or after the moon?

[@derakel5076]

My thought exactly.

[@CubicApocalypse128]

I'd just like to point out that Mercury isn't tidally locked in the same way as the Moon. Mercury is in a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance, meaning 3 rotations per 2 orbits. Usually what you think of when someone mentions tidal locking is a 1:1 resonance, which the Moon is in.

[@spandanganguli6903]

Shadow society/Aliens= "Yo we put a moon up, that's pretty cool right?" Sciman Dan: "Only 31% success rate? Bad"

[@midnight8341]

"Let's move on to their explanation of what the moon is... It can't be _that_ far out there..." About 384000km beyond the actual answer, I'd say...

[@mesonparticle]

No evidence whatsoever, but yeah “If I have a really strong inner conviction that it’s hollow, then it’s hollow” 🤦‍♂️

[@kelvinjanssen7889]

What do you mean? That's one of the purest forms of pseudoscience :p Joking aside, can you Imagine what its like for these guys? Always thinking they get it, only for Them to fail when actually getting to the point of doing an experiment (following the actual scientific method in some cases even though they love to shit on that too). Its like biotechnology but... Y'know... Not working at all after any time.

[@kellydalstok8900]

But they have this big need to feel special.

[@TheCaptainCrack]

Mercury is not orbitally locked to the sun. Its been thought that way because it has a pretty weird way of rotating