News of the Stupid

[mbarrick]

Ever read Jules Verne's "Journey to the Moon" or Edgar Rice Burrough's "Moon Men" or Pellucidar books? Notions of hollow planets and other 19th century silliness are alive and well. Take a look at this excerpt from a link recommended by Reptard on his mailing list:

The concensus seems to be that moon craters are caused by the impact of meteors. This is consistent with the quality of logic displayed in other areas of orthodox cosmology. The diameter of most of these craters is disproportionally great compared to their depth. A true impact crater has a depth commensurate with its diameter. An impact great enough to produce a crater with a diameter of some size on the moon would shatter the entire moon, since it is hollow with a relatively thin shell. To wit: some craters have a mountain in the center. It is significant that, in all cases in which the crater has a mountain, the mountain is always in the center. How did it ever escape destruction?

The only logical answer is that the craters were produced by particlebeam weapons during the great interplanetary war.

That last line is the killer. Yup, that's the "logical" answer all right! ROFLMAO!

The more I look into the incredible things that people will swallow the more inclined I am to follow in the footsteps of L. Ron Hubbard, Erich von Däniken, David Icke and others and come up with a collection pseudo-scientific horseshit that plays off pop-mythology and make a crap load of money pitching snake-oil (and when I do we'll see if this post comes back to "haunt" me, not unlike L. Ron's "I think I'll start a fake religion and make a ton of money" quip).

Comments

The Moons is hollow?

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

I am terribly sorry to de-bunk the debunker.. but the craters could not have been caused by interplanetary war.. The death Star was on the other side of the galaxy and long time ago far far away destroying Alderan....

Of course I love how this guy uses scientific proof without considering simple scientific fact that colisions like that would liquify the rock. the molten rock would settle and the center would be pushed up by gravity and geothermal processes
making this mountain... but I like his theory, I have questions.

Who would attack a planet size rock in space?
What did the moon do to deserve such a brutal attack?
I guess it MOONED them (bad pun bad pun)

Mooning a man on the land.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Close, the rock becoming liquid is definitely part of what happens, but it's a bit more violent than what you suggest. The liquid rock rushes back to the centre of the crater and collides with other liquid rock doing the same thing, forming a sharply peaked interference wave (a Hawaiian would call this kind of wave an "iki"). The iki then falls back on itself, leaving a pile fused metamorphic rock.