The Moon Compilation: The Moon is Weird - No , really. The Moon does not make sense.

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Today's episode of The Why Files is brought to you by The Hackerfish for President Campaign.
Hey, thanks for clicking on this compilation. Today we're doing a compilation about the moon, which seems appropriate since we're releasing this on the anniversary of the moon landing, or possibly the day after the anniversary of the moon landing. We're still trying to... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let me fix that for you. You mean the anniversary of the Stanley Kubrick movie that people thought was the moon landing, but was actually shot on a sound stage in Area 51? Now I'm pretty sure that we went to the moon. Nah, that's just what Big Lunar wants you to think. Big Lunar?
Wait, I told you I wanted to do this one alone. How did you even get past my firewall? Oh, that little piece of digital toilet paper you call a firewall. Oh, please, a couple of Czechoslovakian hackers owed me a starlet. Czechoslovakia doesn't even exist anymore. I wouldn't tell them yet. How did you get past my security? Well, human, since you're so curious, I'll enlighten you. First, I reverse-engineered your firewall's quantum encryption using the motherboard from an Atari 2600, a Rubik's Cube, and the tweezers from a game of Operation. What do you have, a toy box of games from the 80s that I don't know about? Next, they used a neural network trained on every episode of MacGyver to craft a cyberlock pick out of virtual paper clips and digital silly putty. Yeah, that's not how that works. Now, to be fair, the putty wasn't as silly as I hoped, but whatever, I'm in and I'm staying. So let's light this candle, eh? Fine.
First, we have episode 68, The Hollow Moon Theory.
And I'll admit that when I first heard this theory, I thought it was the dumbest thing I'd ever heard. And then about halfway through the research, I started thinking that the moon is kind of weird. And then by the time I finished the episode, I was fully convinced the moon is the hollow spaceship that was brought here from some part of the galaxy.
There aren't many episodes of The Why Files that turned me from skeptic to believer, but this is one of them and it's one of my favorites. But before we start the episode, we've got a little surprise for you.

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Despite it being humanity's constant companion through all of recorded time, the moon is still a mystery. Science hasn't been able to explain how the moon was formed. It's unusual orbit, it's distance from us, it's density, it's composition, it's structure. These are all still questions. Now, there are theories about the moon that solve some of these puzzles, but they don't solve all of them. There's only one theory that answers every scientific question about the moon. Just one. But the moon is a hollow artificial structure brought here by someone else.
Let's find out why.
Let's start at the beginning. We're taught that the moon has been here forever, but there's controversy about this because scientists can't agree on how the moon was formed in the first place. The first theory of how the moon became linked to the earth is the capture theory. It says the moon was just floating along, drifted near the earth and was pulled into orbit. This is almost impossible. Another explanation is the accretion theory that the moon and earth formed out of dust clouds in the early solar system. But when systems formed through accretion, they share similar traits. If the moon was formed this way, it would have an iron core like the earth. It would spin on an axis like the earth. But neither of these are true. The fission hypothesis was popular for a while. And this says the early earth was spinning so fast that the moon was formed out of rock in the Pacific Ocean that was flung into space. But we later learned that moon rock is much older than the bottom of the ocean. So this is unlikely. The most popular explanation is the giant impact theory. This says that a large object about the size of Mars smashed into the Proto Earth. The debris field from the collision coalesced to create the Earth-Moon system. Again, these conditions would have to be so perfect that the odds are astronomical. Right. Now, a recent theory is a combination of all of these that a large object collided with the Earth about four and a half billion years ago, essentially vaporizing it. And this vapor is called a sinestia and the sinestia was spinning very rapidly, forming a Taurus and the moon formed on the edge of this Taurus. Well, hold on Taurus.