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Originally Posted by Matata
But what really messes me up about the moon is that it really shouldn't even exist. Out of every celestial body we've ever observed, the moon is by far the oddest: it's way too big, it's way too light, it has a perfect-circular orbit (every other moon observed has a wobbly, oblong orbit), the same side of the moon always faces the planet, it might be hollow (a NASA scientist that performed seismic tests on the moon famously remarked that it "rung like bell for 24 hours. The moon also has inexplicably shallow craters, implying a very hard structure beneath the dust). The moon also appears to be of identical size as the sun in the sky, as the sun is 400 times larger and 400 times further away (this one alone is so staggering improbable). The moon has a number of statistically impossible characteristics, and the summation of these characteristics is make it perfectly conducive to life on earth. I think the mere existence of the moon is the best evidence we have that life was seeded on earth by outside forces.
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This is exactly the kind of unscientific anecdotal nonsense that is written for rednecks. "Rung like bell for 24 hours" is a vast simplification of seismology tests done over several years resulting in better understanding of lunar materials. The moon contains less moisture and as vibrations propagate, there is less material that can deaden those vibrations as compared to the relatively water filled earth. The size coincidence is like people saying "Jesus and Bible are both 5 letter words! That proves its true".
https://www.popsci.com/does-moon-sound-like-bell/