Posted on 10/10/2009 9:34:02 AM PDT by bogusname
According to evolutionists, our moon is nearly as old as the Earth and, from the rate of unimpeded meteors hitting the moon's surface over billions of years, there should be many feet of lunar dust on the moon's surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.pravda.ru ...
Pravda being Pravda I see.. I’m surprised they didn’t bring aliens into the mix.. oh wait..never mind..
It’s an argument that goes back 50 years, and is still valid.
They made the moon lander’s ladder too short and gave the lander “duck feet” as they expected it to sink into a few feet of dust. The following day’s newspapers had articles like “Where was the dust?”
That said, Pravda is ALWAYS looking for a way to make the USA look bad, so I’m not even going to bother with the article. There are other sources which expound this point.
I feel that same way about anything coming from Russia but it’s actually a good article.
What! No green cheese?
I’ll venture a guess: maybe when the moon gets struck by meteor that some of the dust is ejected at such velocity so as to escape lunar gravity? Hey, it’s a theory!
Yeah, but all the calculations for “billions of years” say it should be over 20 feet deep.
I know just what you’re talking about and I agree. No, this is a long article that debunks quite a bit of the evolutionist doctrine.
Or, there's an "equilibrium point" at which subsequent impacts start fusing as much of the existing dust back into solid crust at the center as they create at the periphery.
Actually not. Calculations that have the moon in a closed environment say this, but one thing that early calculations didn't take into account were solar winds which are stronger than the gravitational forces holding 'moon dust' down. We didn't know much about these at the time as space flight was new.
The cleaning lady comes every Wednesday.
escape velocity = sqrt(2gR), g = GM/R^2 so escape velocity = sqrt(2GM/R) where M is the mass in kg, R the radius in m, G the gravitational constant in SI units, and the velocity comes out in m/s.
I’m guessing 2 or 3 miles per second for the moon. It’s about 8 miles/second for Earth.
Very, very little gets that kind of speed.
“solar winds which are stronger than the gravitational forces holding ‘moon dust’ down”
lol. whatever you say mac.
Not really. For example, the Hawaiian lava dating. Any scientist worth his salt knows to account for 'old carbon' coming up from the deep oceans (water mass age) which can flaw readings if you look at the lava on its own. Pretty much every place that is tested has this variable accounted for. This article makes the same false assumptions as several I've read on the subject, not taking into account the scientists know about the variable they have to put into the calculation based on the location for existing carbon. http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/hottopics/dating.html
What about solar winds or the draft from colliding objects?
The Moon had 83% less gravity than Earth so, the dust might not necessarily all come back to the surface.
OK, I gotchya. I understand where you’re coming from. I believe the Biblical account. Sorry to bother you.
Most of it has ended up in my house......
Wild-eyed claims based on ignorance about the dynamics of lunar dust are entertaining but not helpful, and are probably less than useless.
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