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The Big Collison Theory

rhinefire

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The theory that a large planet like ball smacked in to the Earth in a molten state eventually creating our moon and Earth as it is, is a mind blowing thing considering what would be if that object missed the Earth..........no life. Talk about incredible odds. You could chaos created this Earth as chaos was the Big Bang with zillions of objects colliding for billions of years as I sit here having no mayo for my sandwich.
 
rhinefire said:
The theory that a large planet like ball smacked in to the Earth in a molten state eventually creating our moon and Earth as it is, is a mind blowing thing considering what would be if that object missed the Earth..........no life. Talk about incredible odds. You could chaos created this Earth as chaos was the Big Bang with zillions of objects colliding for billions of years as I sit here having no mayo for my sandwich.
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Why did you put this into the philosophy section?

This has nothing to do with philosophy.
 
rhinefire said:
The theory that a large planet like ball smacked in to the Earth in a molten state eventually creating our moon and Earth as it is, is a mind blowing thing considering what would be if that object missed the Earth..........no life. Talk about incredible odds. You could chaos created this Earth as chaos was the Big Bang with zillions of objects colliding for billions of years as I sit here having no mayo for my sandwich.
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Why would the earth not have life if there was no moon?
 
Lack of tides would mitigate against evolution if not life itself.
 
rhinefire said:
The theory that a large planet like ball smacked in to the Earth in a molten state eventually creating our moon and Earth as it is, is a mind blowing thing considering what would be if that object missed the Earth..........no life. Talk about incredible odds. You could chaos created this Earth as chaos was the Big Bang with zillions of objects colliding for billions of years as I sit here having no mayo for my sandwich.
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Wow that does sound unlikely from your completely uneducated standpoint and without analyzing the evidence at all. Why would experts with decades of experience believe something that sounds so ridiculous to you who has 0 years of experience. :doh

I heard about this other crazy stupid theory that time is faster near objects of high mass and that matter can actually bend space and time. Another dumb theory. When I look at heavy stuff, I don't see any space being bent at all. As for the time thing, I just put my watch right beside a building. It goes at the same rate. I believe some idiot named Einstein came up with it. He called it the Theory of Relativity. How can something true be "relative." So dumb.:lamo
 
calamity said:
Why would the earth not have life if there was no moon?
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I think I would've used google before admitting this level of general ignorance.
 
rhinefire said:
The theory that a large planet like ball smacked in to the Earth in a molten state eventually creating our moon and Earth as it is, is a mind blowing thing considering what would be if that object missed the Earth..........no life. Talk about incredible odds. You could chaos created this Earth as chaos was the Big Bang with zillions of objects colliding for billions of years as I sit here having no mayo for my sandwich.
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A sandwich without mayo, that's the saddest, cruelest thing I've read all day. :(
 
Summerwind said:
I think I would've used google before admitting this level of general ignorance.
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Really? So only planets with tidal oceans have life?


I think that's how he meant it...


No moon revolving around earth does not mean earth would not have developed life at some point, only that it would not resemble life as we know it. We could just as easily NOT had life develop on this planet, even WITH the moon revolving around us. The start of life is a FASCINATING thing to consider. There was no life...and then there was. How? How did inorganic matter become organic? Some will say God did it...in fact, many will. To me, that's not good enough. IF he did, then I want to know HOW. Magic? Magic is just technology we don't understand. How could some strange goo go from being goo, to being alive? I have to assume that solar radiation had something to do with it, and not the kind bounced off of the moon. Some spot of mud got so bombarded with radiation that it went from mud, to...something more than mud.

I wonder what would happen if WE tried bombarding some mud with radiation, just a constant shot...would it mutate into life? Seems like there should be someone out there trying this...
 
KevinKohler said:
Really? So only planets with tidal oceans have life?


I think that's how he meant it...


No moon revolving around earth does not mean earth would not have developed life at some point, only that it would not resemble life as we know it. We could just as easily NOT had life develop on this planet, even WITH the moon revolving around us. The start of life is a FASCINATING thing to consider. There was no life...and then there was. How? How did inorganic matter become organic? Some will say God did it...in fact, many will. To me, that's not good enough. IF he did, then I want to know HOW. Magic? Magic is just technology we don't understand. How could some strange goo go from being goo, to being alive? I have to assume that solar radiation had something to do with it, and not the kind bounced off of the moon. Some spot of mud got so bombarded with radiation that it went from mud, to...something more than mud.

I wonder what would happen if WE tried bombarding some mud with radiation, just a constant shot...would it mutate into life? Seems like there should be someone out there trying this...
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My understanding is that our axis would wobble too much for anything stable enough to gain life. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but gravitational pull of the moon effects tides. important, but perhaps still some life, and the stability of our axis, without which we'd be more like Mars, borderline livable tending toward not.
 
Summerwind said:
My understanding is that our axis would wobble too much for anything stable enough to gain life. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but gravitational pull of the moon effects tides. important, but perhaps still some life, and the stability of our axis, without which we'd be more like Mars, borderline livable tending toward not.
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I believe there was evidence of life found on Mars.


I think we tend to have a very narrow imagining of just what life COULD be. There is life clinging to volcanic vent tubes at the bottom of the ocean. Like, 400 degree water, and toxic gases, and NO sunlight, yet life exists there. I think life can develop pretty much anywhere, it's just not going to be in a form we are remotely familiar with.
 
KevinKohler said:
I believe there was evidence of life found on Mars.


I think we tend to have a very narrow imagining of just what life COULD be. There is life clinging to volcanic vent tubes at the bottom of the ocean. Like, 400 degree water, and toxic gases, and NO sunlight, yet life exists there. I think life can develop pretty much anywhere, it's just not going to be in a form we are remotely familiar with.
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I don't think so. I think we found evidence of water, but not life.

Yes, but that's a stable environment, if we wobble as much as is claimed, there would essentially not be a stable environment anywhere on earth.
 
As is the norm for our species throughout our history...we live in a Human-centric mindset that severely limits our ability to imagine possibility. Life throughout this universe likely bares no resemblance to what we see her on our tiny little dust speck of a planet. Planets all over the cosmos (and moons) are also so diverse and vast that our little minds cannot even begin to grasp what might be out there.
Our Earth/Moon system seems unique to us and life because we grew up here...thing is we do not even understand the damn things we supposedly "Know" when we see them.
 
Summerwind said:
I think I would've used google before admitting this level of general ignorance.
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The moon has nothing to do with "life." Maybe you should spend a few years at Google U.
 
Summerwind said:
My understanding is that our axis would wobble too much for anything stable enough to gain life. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but gravitational pull of the moon effects tides. important, but perhaps still some life, and the stability of our axis, without which we'd be more like Mars, borderline livable tending toward not.
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The moon helped create a stable enough environment for civilization not life. Water probably played a role in life forming or successfully being transferred here. The moon played no part in that.
 
Summerwind said:
My understanding is that our axis would wobble too much for anything stable enough to gain life. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but gravitational pull of the moon effects tides. important, but perhaps still some life, and the stability of our axis, without which we'd be more like Mars, borderline livable tending toward not.
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I am not sure if it woudl be no 'life', but it would be highly unlikely for larger, more complex life.
 
rhinefire said:
The theory that a large planet like ball smacked in to the Earth in a molten state eventually creating our moon and Earth as it is, is a mind blowing thing considering what would be if that object missed the Earth..........no life. Talk about incredible odds. You could chaos created this Earth as chaos was the Big Bang with zillions of objects colliding for billions of years as I sit here having no mayo for my sandwich.
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It is actually considered highly debatable now as to whether the Moon was essential to the formation of Earthly life.
 
We know life developed without mayonaise, but we aren't certain it will continue without it, despite claims to the contrary.
 
Summerwind said:
My understanding is that our axis would wobble too much for anything stable enough to gain life. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but gravitational pull of the moon effects tides. important, but perhaps still some life, and the stability of our axis, without which we'd be more like Mars, borderline livable tending toward not.
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As we lose the moon, the earth's axis of rotation will wobble more. Without it, it could flip 90° I do believe, but that may be in this system where we have the entangle angular momentum. Venus, for example, has no moons, but it's axis of rotation seems relatively stable. Though Venus may not be a great example, its day is longer than its year.
 
distraff said:
Wow that does sound unlikely from your completely uneducated standpoint and without analyzing the evidence at all. Why would experts with decades of experience believe something that sounds so ridiculous to you who has 0 years of experience. :doh

I heard about this other crazy stupid theory that time is faster near objects of high mass and that matter can actually bend space and time. Another dumb theory. When I look at heavy stuff, I don't see any space being bent at all. As for the time thing, I just put my watch right beside a building. It goes at the same rate. I believe some idiot named Einstein came up with it. He called it the Theory of Relativity. How can something true be "relative." So dumb.:lamo
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Answer: Because Einstein is the ultimate liberal...
 
rhinefire said:
The theory that a large planet like ball smacked in to the Earth in a molten state eventually creating our moon and Earth as it is, is a mind blowing thing considering what would be if that object missed the Earth..........no life.
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Not really. The Earth and moon don't need to be in this precise orbit, and this precise size, in order for life to develop.


Talk about incredible odds.
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There may be 100 billion habitable planets in our universe.

Odds seem pretty good that more than 1 of them developed intelligent organisms, or will do so at some future point.
 
rhinefire said:
The theory that a large planet like ball smacked in to the Earth in a molten state eventually creating our moon and Earth as it is, is a mind blowing thing considering what would be if that object missed the Earth..........no life. Talk about incredible odds. You could chaos created this Earth as chaos was the Big Bang with zillions of objects colliding for billions of years as I sit here having no mayo for my sandwich.
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All it takes is an egg, some cooking oil, salt and a blender. You can add garlic and have aioli.
 
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