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Glad you enjoyed it. It really ticks me off how these astronomers foist this impact-splash theory on the public as if it was GOD'S WORD. We wouldn't even BE here if a mars had directly impacted the earth even 4.4 billion years ago : NO WATER. And when you ask them : where did the OCEANS come from, they clam up. A comet barrage? If the moon gets 5% of meteoric mass coming in, how come it's dry as a bone? How come venus doesn't have a "comet-ocean"? There are 384,000,000 cubic miles of water in the oceans now(there was more in the past, there's a "leak" mechanism), from 4.4B to 3.9B that's about 2 cubic mile, water-rich comets, for EACH and every YEAR for 500,000,000 years; hitting ONLY the earth, not the moon, not venus, just the earth. Obvious nonsense. Where I-S failed is #1 : statistics : hitting the earth's terminator at a precise point to re-launch the lunar mass beyond the roche lobe. Ask a rocket scientist how delicate a matter it is to get a satellite in orbit; and #2 : geochemistry : no WATER survives on a planet as hot as the sun. They went off the rails with the slow-down mechanism : an incoming planet, space probe, meteorite, whatever; will speed up as it approaches the planet. If it impacts it arrives at the terminal velocity(11 kps for the earth). If it misses it is just a slingshot back into a new solar orbit, probes to the outer planets use jupiter's gravity well to get a free boost on a new trajectory using this technique. Thus for capture to work you have to SLOW DOWN the object enough for it to go into at least a highly elliptical orbit. They chose direct impact and some of the forward momentum went into the lunar mass that flew beyond the Roche Lobe(about 16,000 miles). Nonsense, the incoming Luna(somewhat smaller twin to mars)was tidally shorn into a comma shape inside the Roche Lobe(up to 6 hours passage). The tail was roche-shredded/taffy-pulled into a long stream of lava-blobs(by Kepler's 2nd law) and thrown at high velocity out of the terran gravity well, a cosmic retro-fire if you will. But Luna was spinning prograde rapidly, thus the forward side spun-undercut the tidal bulge(surf's UP)and so as it emerged from the Roche Lobe the 2 parts went their separate ways. Thus the Remnant Core had less mass and greater c.g. to c.g. distance to terra(tidal bulge/rip-off was on the side facing terra)and so it was further rightward deflected from a fast parabolic escape orbit and into a highly elliptical but CAPTURED orbit in the terran gravity well. This then was the slow-down mechanism. Next came the bull elephant in the china shop number, the RC/moon now romped thru the ring system, perturbing most of it to the terran surface, and gaining SAM from it(approx the same masses). It still interacts with it, as ocean tides. Then came the .5B year period described by Gen 2:6 : hydrate molecules cooked out by plate tectonics, making land and sea(solids and liquids). Anyway, that's how the earth-moon system began, the third player, the ring system, is what you walk around on...and drink... Next : a fun idea for the oceans...