How Did The Moon Form?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I look up at the sky at night and one of the most amazing things to stare at |
| 0:11.9 | is the moon because it just seems so calm and peaceful hanging up there in the sky and |
| 0:16.6 | looking down at us. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah, moonlight is so calming, right? |
| 0:20.6 | And reassuring. |
| 0:21.6 | Yes, especially if you're a vampire. |
| 0:24.2 | Or a werewolf. |
| 0:26.8 | I heard that the moon actually has this crazy, violent, cataclysmic past. |
| 0:32.2 | Yeah, it's right. |
| 0:33.2 | Hanging up there in the sky, acting all calm and nice, it turns out it may have been |
| 0:37.1 | partied to one of the greatest murder mysteries in the history of the solar system. |
| 0:41.1 | A very impactful event. |
| 0:43.5 | That's right. |
| 0:45.4 | And I love when there are things hanging out right there in our faces that give us clues |
| 0:50.8 | as to great drama that took place in deep dark history. |
| 0:56.8 | Hi, I'm Jorge. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm a cartoonist. |
| 1:14.0 | And I'm Daniel. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm a particle physicist. |
| 1:16.3 | And welcome to our podcast, Daniel and Jorge, Explained Universe, in which we look around |
| 1:20.6 | that anything in the universe and try to explain it to you. |
| 1:24.3 | And to this program, that big, white, shiny thing in the night sky. |
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