There is a subculture who believe that our moon has certain physical characteristics that

prove it could not have evolved naturally, but is instead best explained as an artificial

satellite constructed by some unknown intelligence.

As these beliefs are based on hard science facts about the moon, they are a perfect place

to point our skeptical eye and see if the moon needs to be reexamined.

Or if perhaps some of these people aren't getting the science quite right.

The engineered moon is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The engineered moon hypothesis.

Moon's law can be roughly paraphrased as there are some views so extreme that they cannot

reliably be distinguished from parody.

And the claim that the moon is a hollow alien construction perfectly illustrates the need

for such a law.

World-famous conspiracy theorists, such as David Eich, have promoted this claim as fact.

And fringe websites today continue to publish articles that assign it to the unearned status

hollow moon theory.

Today we're going to disassemble this alleged construction project and learn exactly how

we know that the moon is neither hollow nor was it engineered.

However, while it's easy to simply assert that's not true, how many of us can convincingly

explain how and why we know that?

Would you be able to sit down right now on a panel and debate a hollow moon expert, who's

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