Does the moon exist?

[Chupperson Weird]

You do realize it would screw up our ecosystem even more if the moon got messed up, right?

[Black Mage]

What moon?

[CrossEyed7]

I say we go with what IMAO has been suggesting for years - nuke the moon.  If it exists, it can be nuked, and vice-versa.

Actually, we [allegedly] already did.

[Black Mage]

I'm just glad Fifth hasn't gotten involved in this discussion.

I think we all know where he stands on the issue.

[Weegee]

You Moonists sicken me.

[Turtlekid1]

I'm sending a picture of my ass.

Oh God I just got this

[Luigison]

Thanks for the link to The Mad Revisionist.  It was the best thing I've read since "A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick."

[Chupperson Weird]

Yeah, upon further reading, it's pretty amazing stuff.

[Fawful Fan]

...he's talking about Newton's original formula this and that (is it still correct? I'm not sufficiently versed in physics to know)

Einstein's understanding of gravity in the theory of relativity consistently explains more observations.  So yes, Newton's model is outdated.

As for the moon existing, it all depends on how one defines "existence."  That's more of a philosophical question, though.

[CoconutMikeNIke]

The real question is, though, would you eat the moon if it were made out of ribs?

[Kimimaru]

I don't understand where people come up with this stuff.

Of course the moon exists. You can stand on it, see it, and feel it. Now, if the moon was just an illusion, astronauts would've been very disappointed.

[Weegee]

Haven't you heard? The moon landing was a hoax; mole-people actually staged the whole thing from their home deep beneath Atlantis. Neil Springsteen, the man commonly believed to have first set foot on the moon, never even existed.

[Trainman]

I say we go with what IMAO has been suggesting for years - nuke the moon.  If it exists, it can be nuked, and vice-versa.

Why don't we just cram all the moon-ain't-really-thar people into a rocket with a lunar landing module (after beating them mercifully) and send them straight to the moon to see for themselves.

Oh wait, no, 'cause then they'd all think the launch/trip/landing was some convoluted, super-advanced computer simulation using technology that the government has been harboring ever since they discovered it in the Roswell incident 63 years ago.

How do I know this? I was there, man.

[Moronic Rascal]

I hope you understand that the force of gravity equation does not account for the acceleration of the moon as it rotates around the earth.  The equation doesn't actually assume "that the earth travels in concentric spheres", it only explains what the force of attraction between two bodies of mass is.  Any, and all, bodies of mass exert a gravitational attraction to one another regardless of whether it's "moving in concentric circles" or it's "at rest".  Those people are attempting to disprove the existence of a moon by severely misrepresenting what the various equations of physics actually imply, which is stupid.

If you do a proper analysis of the forces acting on the moon, you'll find that the force of the moon spinning around the earth exceeds the gravitational force, and as such the moon is actually moving slightly further and further away with each passing year (i think about half an inch?).

So yeah, eventually, the moon will break free from the earth's gravitational pull, and we'll have no more moon.

With your argument, I could say that we're moving closer and closer to the sun, and eventually we'll be incinerated when we get too close.  So yeah, we'd be dead by now.  Unless you think the world was created last thursday, that is.

Also, that scam has already been tried.  The cake is a lie, all the time.

[Weegee]

Are you sure you're actually "Moronic", Moronic Rascal?