• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
    13·
    4 days ago

    Well, in reality it was more like a “dismembering bodyplanet parts by brute force” kind of situation followed by putting the dying remains just out of reach in orbit afterwards.

    And all because Jupiter most likely didn’t do its patrol-job properly.

    So, I question the wholesomeness of the whole event, but welcome the final outcome 4 billion years later nonetheless ;-)

    • YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 days ago

      Yeah the scene should be more like Jupiter as a baseball pitcher throwing an astroid at the earth to “give” them a moon.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      31·
      4 days ago

      So, I question the wholesomeness of the whole event, but welcome the final outcome 4 billion years later nonetheless ;-)

      What the fuck? Because of this bullshit I have to go to work every day now! SMH

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        7·
        4 days ago

        What the fuck? Because of this bullshit I have to go to work every day now! SMH

        To give a relevant quote by the great Douglas Adams:

        “Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    53·
    4 days ago

    That is almost definitely not what happened. Jupiter’s moons are composed of different material than our moon. Our moon was likely the result of another planet colliding with baby earth. The ejecta from that collision would have formed the moon.