Yup. Definitely aliens.

They actually use this theory in Assassins Creed lore (i think).

I thought that they were landing pads for Goa'uld ships cool (not an SG fan, I just saw the movie once)

Or the fact that you are just figments of my imagination has something to do with it

I think I'm the crazy one here

I wish these forums had a youtube embedding option.

They supposedly do have a youtube imbedding option.

More David Icke

Ah I think I've seen this one before. It's amazing how much "expert testimony" you can produce if you quote people out of context

If there was no Moon we wouldn't be here to talk about it. More than likely the Earth would have an unstable rotation and wild temperature fluctuations on the surface. And as most people here know all too well, space is big and uncommon things tend to happen all the time.

So it seems the Moons existence is something to be expected if you live on a planet like Earth.

That sounds rather like the anthropic principle.

In any case, we do know that collisions like the one we think formed the Moon are actually fairly common by studying other nascent planetary systems. The collision easily explains the lighter density of the Moon, as well as its orbit. Aside from its relatively low density, and its large size compared to Earth versus other planet/satellite systems, there isn't anything terribly special about the Moon.

It doesn't make us special it simply says we wouldn't find ourselves here if the conditions for us being here weren't here.

Plus computer simulations of all the different ideas behind the Moon support the collision model overall the rest.

The moon is vitally important for the current life on Earth

it doesn't give any explanations for why things are they way they are, only why they aren't any way else.

I wonder if this aided or hindered the development of life, or if it made no real difference.

Even a partial answer is still helpful in understanding something further.

When the Moon first formed and was working itself into a stable orbital trajectory I suspect it was quite chaotic. Most likely I'd guess life did not exist at the time of collision.

a very long time before your map starts

I know that it did not harm the development of life in general, but I just wonder what smaller effects it could have had

or what might have happened differently if the Moon had formed at its present distance

Just idle thoughts, nothing Earth-shattering (unlike the collision with Thea, ba-ZING!)

Well not much really. Most life during the extreme proximity of the Moon was microbial and living in the Ocean. They wouldn't really be affected besides the movement of the tides.

We wouldn't be here talking about this if that were the case. I've read about a few contradicting points on the Moons future, some say we will lose it in a couple billion years, others say the Earth's rotation will slow down and become tidally locked with the Moon.

I never saw this before