Posted on 07/11/2023 10:52:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
Scientists announced in early July that an enormous, heat-emitting blob is currently sitting on the far side of the moon.
Though this is not the first time humans have stumbled upon the bizarre blob of heat-emitting granite, according to National Geographic, the news has once again surprised the scientific community. “We have discovered extra heat coming out of the ground at a location on the Moon believed to be a long dead volcano which last erupted over 3.5 billion years ago,” lead researcher Matt Siegler wrote in a press release regarding the discovery.
“It’s around 50km across, and the only solution that we can think of which produces that much heat is a large body of granite, a rock which forms when a magma body – the unerupted lava – below a volcano cools. Granite has high concentrations of radioactive elements like uranium and thorium compared to other rocks in the lunar crust, causing the heating we can sense at the lunar surface,” he continued.
The blob was discovered by an international team of researchers working with NASA. It was an unexpected discovery, as granite is almost completely absent in our known solar system except for here on Earth, the team wrote in Nature.
While this is all well and good, it is going to take a heck of a lot more evidence to convince me that the moon isn’t hollow. Just check out this video, and I’m sure you’ll feel exactly the same way:
Ruh Roh! Human made Lunar warming?
No silly, it’s Chris Christie.
It's nice to know that Gary Larson has found a way to keep busy.
Could it be used for geothermal heat for a base? Sounds like a readymade energy source.
Wasn’t it Beware of the Blob?
So that’s where the aliens have their base. It’s their power-generating plant.
I highly doubt that there were ever volcanoes on the moon. Isn’t the most likely theory that the moon is full of earth debris due to a huge impact early on? That would account for the large chunk of granite up there.
OH!
And it was directed by J. R. Ewing,
A new source for kitchen counter-tops, especially if interspersed with natural glowing minerals/cystals. Think of the new interior design possibilities. Down side: having to wear radiation proof gear just to open the fridge from the moon granite uranium.
Iron Sky...
Nah. If it’s not space Nazis, then it has to be Lizzo.
I know that but I meant the song line. In 6th grade we exited the Jefferson on 14th Street in manhattan singing “beware of the Blob”
China Makes Historic Landing on ‘Dark Side’ of the Moon
https://www.history.com/news/china-plans-historic-landing-on-dark-side-of-the-moon
I just copied and pasted from a Google search for the lyrics.
> In these matters I’ve learned to never take anything for granite. <
Well played!
Big whoop.
Thx, I get a zinger now and again.
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