Lunacy

So back in the day, some 4.5 billion odd years ago the universe was a volatile place. The earth was just a little bubba making its way in that crazy shit storm that was our milky way, seriously, there were rocks and planets and meteors flying everywhere! Anyway, this big motherfucker of a rock slammed right into the earth, spitting out all kinds of debris. Some of this debris aggregated together and decided to hang around, orbiting the earth and henceforth being known as “the moon”. Over the years our lunar companion took its own fair share of beatings from space and was clumsily fashioned into the lovely little lump of cheese it is today.

Now here’s a fun fact:

The sun is approximately 400 times larger than the moon. The moon is approximately 400 times closer to the earth then the sun.

This delicate balance in size-distance ratio between the sun and the moon is the only reason that an eclipse is possible and actually occurs as it does.

Yet the life and times of our moon, from its creation to its size and distance from the earth were essentially all by pure chance.

Isn’t chance a provocative word?