We are so lucky to have the moon!

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I am watching a documentary about what would life be like without the moon. I have learned that the moon was formed by a collision with earth mark 1 - that 2 collisions actually hit earth mark 1 forming earth mark 2 and leaving us our moon which is so very important for us to be here.

I have always loved our moon. Without it, we wouldn't be here. Life wouldn't be anything like we know it, no humans. Earth mark 1 would be one of just one big ocean. Possibly cephalapods, octopus and squid were the smart organisms possibly on the earth at the time. We know that this collision with a mass called Orpheus could have had life on it as well.

We do know that the moon was formed by this collision of Orpheus which hit Earth near Greenland, off center. The moon is moving away from us about an inch every year. Soon, this move will cause the earth to rotate closer with a wobble that gets ever increasing. It would cause huge climate changes.

Anyway, we all should be so thankful that we have such a great celestial object in the sky - what we call our moon. From here we could launch spacecraft that would cost 100 times less to launch due to the lower gravity on the moon. We could settle there is we find that there is ice at one of the caps. We could have a civilization and finally break the travel barrier and have man fly throughout the solar system, going to Jupiter perhaps via a steam producing spaceship headed towards Europa to supply us with more steam fuel because it is an icy moon.

There are so many things we can harness by using our moon, and I hope that in my lifetime I am able to experience going to the moon and perhaps a flight into the solar system. We have so many scientists and technology now that would be able to create such a thing and make it a reality. I love our moon.

It provides light during the nighttime and carries the earth in a blanket that gentle tugs at it to keep the earth's axis from spinning out of control. We owe much gratitude to God who made this possible, this collision and life as we know it. Such a terrific special occurrence caused us to be here today. We owe our very existence to the moon.

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