This is fucking crazy.

[Oneironaut]

We are all inhabiting the very thin hard outer shell of a ball of lava so huge our puny monkey brains can't possibly make an accurate mental image of its size. At any given moment we are traveling east at hundreds of meters per second, but we don't feel it. Our ball of lava is so massive that everything we see is stuck in its gravitational field, including, luckily, our oxygen supply which is not flying away into outer space. Everything on our planet that is not hydrogen or helium was created at the centers of stars, gigantic fireballs so hot that atomic nuclei are fused together and turned into heavier elements. The heavy elements were then strewn about the galaxy through supernovas, the violent explosions created as stars collapse in on themselves and die, explosions which can be brighter than all the other stars in the galaxy combined. From this process comes everything from the oxygen in our lungs to the iron in our blood to the carbon in the DNA necessary for creating THC. We are currently circling one of these fireballs at a distance of some 150 million kilometers. When we are not facing it we can see hundreds or even thousands of them so far away that most of the light you see from them was emitted long before you were born. This is because we live in the Milky Way Galaxy, a giant disc of nuclear fireballs 100,000 light years across orbiting a supermassive black hole. This is all so fucking crazy it makes me wonder how people can consider this place normal, and actually be bored by it!

Yes, I am high, in case you were wondering... :stoned:

[CYRAX]

I had a funny feeling you where high before i finished the 2nd sentence so i figured to look at the bottom to see if you mentioned you where high, now im cracking up about the coincidence :)

[dog420]

End of the world is coming so soon?

Peace

[Oneironaut]

Nah, our world is going to be around long long after we go extinct. If it can survive an impact with an object the size of Mars, it can survive a rogue species of superintelligent chimpanzees.

[dog420]

If it can survive an impact with an object the size of Mars, it can survive a rogue species of superintelligent chimpanzees.

What :confused: :confused: :confused:

[spacelamb]

Heh...yeah, I didn't have to wonder if you were high either. Nice job posting, everything's spelled right and you used punctuation!! Yay!! I know it can be hard to put together a coherant post when you're baked.....

Peace

[CYRAX]

Well, i'll smoke a bowl and come back to this thread acting as weird as him :)

[Oneironaut]

What :confused: :confused: :confused:
Scientists think the Moon was created when an object the size of Mars impacted with the Earth. The Earth has put up with asteroids, comets, volcanoes, ice ages, earthquakes, tsunamis, the continents ripping apart and smashing together, and all kinds of shit like that. To think that the world is coming to an end soon, or that we pose some kind of threat to it, is laughable.

[minnesota man]

When I look up at night, I think I can see the stars spinning due to the rotation of the planet. Is that possible?

[Euphoric]

Wow good thinking going on here

Humans just smash up the whole "delicate ecosystem" and turn it into a bunch of garbage and bugs

Some times i wonder if one of the dinosaurs species did the exact same thing as us, and essentially served the same function? (to spread life to space and create mass extinctions which develop evolution)

[dog420]

HHmmmm....

http://home.case.edu/~sjr16/earth_moon.html

The moon is Earth's closest celestial neighbor. It has a huge influence upon our lives, governs the tides (the sun plays a small part, but not nearly as much as the Moon), and is responsible for eclipses. Some biologists say that the moon is even responsible - in part - for life on Earth, for without the tides causing currents and mixing of chemicals, life might never have formed.

The moon lies, on average, 384,400 km (238,900 miles) away and takes 27.3 days to orbit the Earth. Strange as it may seem, its rotation period is exactly the same as its orbital period, something that scientists call tidally locked. Therefore, one half is always facing the Earth while the other half is always facing away. This means that there isn't really a "Dark Side" of the moon. Also, contrary to popular opinion, there have been people on the far side, and it has been extensively photographed and mapped.

Surface and Atmosphere

The moon has a very heavily cratered surface, which tells the tale of solar system. Earth would be the same way if it had no atmosphere nor plate tectonics. Without an atmosphere or water to erode the craters, the lunar landscape has remained relatively constant for billions of years.

It is through these craters that we can actually tell some of the solar system's history. Through dating the craters, planetary scientists have been able to determine that most of the craters were made in the early days of the solar system, approximately 3.8-4.5 billion years ago. This means that early in the solar system, there was a period of heavy asteroid bombardment. This is most likely due to all of the extra material left over from the solar system's formation. After approximately 1.2 billion years, most of the material had formed into the Asteroid Belt, been ejected from the solar system, or hit the planets and moons.

If you look at the moon closely, you can see dark patches. After the period of heavy asteroid bombardment, the moon's surface cracked in many places. The lowlands of the moon filled with volcanic material, which then cooled. This lasted for approximately 750 million years. They are called maria (singular is mare) due to their resemblance to dark oceans.

The moon has remained relatively static (unchanging) for the last 2.5 billion years, with the occasional asteroid impact.

Creation

There are four main theories about the creation of the moon, although only one is generally considered to give an accurate description of what actually occurred.

The first theory states that the moon was created the same way the planets were - through the coalescing of gas and dust during the solar system's formation. The second theory says that the moon is a captured asteroid. The third theory says that when the Earth was first formed it was spinning so rapidly that it split in two; this is often referred to the "fission" theory*.

The fourth theory is the one that most scientists currently believe is correct. It states that when the Earth was quite young, a Mars -sized planet crashed into it. The planet crashed with such speed that it was completely destroyed, and almost destroyed the Earth. The planet was coming in with such force that when it was destroyed, the molten iron in its core continued to travel through Earth, to eventually be included it its core. This explains why the Moon has very little iron. The crash, comically dubbed the "Big Splash," sent tons of rock and debris into orbit. These fragments eventually coalesced to form the Moon. The tidal and rotational forces in play also account for why the moon's day is exactly the same as it's "year."

Peace

[WaKeNvAp]

Heh...yeah, I didn't have to wonder if you were high either. Nice job posting, everything's spelled right and you used punctuation!! Yay!! I know it can be hard to put together a coherant post when you're baked.....

Peace
man, i find it hard to write a good post when i dont have any vitamin thc lol
i agree, good job posting, was prob a sativa? lemme know

[LIP]

Am i going to die? :(

[SensiRide]

Lol, I think about that shit when I'm sober!
Its just to much to take in sometimes and I have to stop thinking about it, it boggles the mind.
Even just looking around at other human beings sometimes and thinking wtf, does nobody realise how crazy we are? Or even speaking and reading - all these little symbols you are reading just now - forming words in your mind and conjuring up images, its fucking NUTS!

We're all MAD!:upsidedow

[benagain]

And one day I'll see it all out there. I just have to finish up my rocket :D

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