The Moon Cracking

[Cikomyr2]

So I saw a bunch of stupid unscientific articles that say they discovered a crack getting bigger on the moon. I am 98% percent it's obvious bull****, but there's probably *something* that triggered this fake news. I was hoping someone would know.

[Tvtyrant]

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/L...king-moon.html
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/scie...-lunar-surface

Seems the closest to a decent article on it. The moon either has some tectonic events due to magma, or the caverns inside of it are slowly collapsing due to a lack of magma causing the moon to shrink.

[Cikomyr2]

That's pretty cool. So basically the moon is collapsing on itself for whatever it can collapse on its; pockets of nonrocks existing within the celestial body getting displaced, and the overall body is now denser.

[LibraryOgre]

It's aftereffects of a near miss in 1994.

[Tarmor]

A quick search reveals mostly old articles that are really about scientists and NASA being aware of cracks in the moon due to cooling and past tectonic activity.

The only recent exception I could readily see is one Indian "news" site that seems more interested in sensational claims than actual news - where the headline mentions an expanding crack, but the following article has nothing of the sort and is merely the shrinking moon ideas again.

So, there doesn't appear to be anything that's changed recently, and I don't really see any claims or news about the moon cracking anyway. What did you see that grabbed your attention?

[Cikomyr2]

A quick search reveals mostly old articles that are really about scientists and NASA being aware of cracks in the moon due to cooling and past tectonic activity.

The only recent exception I could readily see is one Indian "news" site that seems more interested in sensational claims than actual news - where the headline mentions an expanding crack, but the following article has nothing of the sort and is merely the shrinking moon ideas again.

So, there doesn't appear to be anything that's changed recently, and I don't really see any claims or news about the moon cracking anyway. What did you see that grabbed your attention?

A joke facebook post about the india article you mentioned, and someone asking "who got the Moon Hatching for November 2020?"

[Rockphed]

It's aftereffects of a near miss in 1994.

I get that the 70s were a special time, but what did I just watch?

[Bohandas]

I know there's a rift on the moon called the Rima Ariadaeus that kind of looks like the moon is cracking when looked at from the correct angle

[LibraryOgre]

I get that the 70s were a special time, but what did I just watch?

a) Thundarr started in 1980.
b) The introduction to Thundarr, the Barbarian, a sci/fantasy cartoon.

[Blackhawk748]

I get that the 70s were a special time, but what did I just watch?

Pure and unfiltered win.

[comicshorse]

A joke facebook post about the india article you mentioned, and someone asking "who got the Moon Hatching for November 2020?"

Whelp guess its time to kill the moon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Moon

[HandofShadows]

a) Thundarr started in 1980.
b) The introduction to Thundarr, the Barbarian, a sci/fantasy cartoon.

A barbarian with a magic sword (bit like a lightsaber), a hulking catlike person (who is easily amused but smarter than you think) and a slightly bitchy sorceress (of Asian extraction) and one sane woman. The world is ruined and overrun by wizards who use magic and superhigh tech (Think Girl Genius with actually magic spells). A wonderful romp. A lot of character designs and other stuff by the great Jack Kirby. Good grief stumbled on a Thundarr the Barbarian RPG.

[Rockphed]

a) Thundarr started in 1980.
b) The introduction to Thundarr, the Barbarian, a sci/fantasy cartoon.

Yes, so it was probably laid down in 1979 at the latest.

[Xuc Xac]

I get that the 70s were a special time, but what did I just watch?

Don't act like you think Thundarr is weird when Adventure Time and Steven Universe are on TV right now.

[Rockphed]

Don't act like you think Thundarr is weird when Adventure Time and Steven Universe are on TV right now.

I don't watch either of those.

[Bohandas]

Don't act like you think Thundarr is weird when Adventure Time and Steven Universe are on TV right now.

I thought they both ended

[The Glyphstone]

For an 80's toy commercial, I'm surprised how complex - and dark - Thundarr's worldbuilding backstory is.

[Rogar Demonblud]

I thought they both ended

They'll be seen on reruns for at least the next decade.

[LibraryOgre]

For an 80's toy commercial, I'm surprised how complex - and dark - Thundarr's worldbuilding backstory is.

I never saw the toys, which was, itself, kind of amazing in retrospect.

[Rogar Demonblud]

They never made it to the Osco, I can tell you that.

[Rockphed]

For an 80's toy commercial, I'm surprised how complex - and dark - Thundarr's worldbuilding backstory is.

Ah, now Thundarr makes so much more sense. I had forgotten that most 80s animated shows were thinly veiled toy commercials.

[GrayDeath]

Giantitp, the website where going from

Genuine Curiosity alà "I hear there are observable Cracks on the Moon, is this just Crack?"

to

Dismay over "the overabundance of Comercial Advertizement Cartoons in the 80ies"

in less than 20 posts is not even blinked at.


never change!

[Jay R]

I had forgotten that most 80s animated shows were thinly veiled toy commercials.

I agree completely, except for the "thinly veiled" part.