The Secret History of the Moon - 4K
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0:10 - 0:18Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel...
Sleeping our noons away.
- Matsunaga Teitoku -
0:23 - 0:26As primeval man watched the moon in the night sky,
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0:26 - 0:29it became to him an object of curiosity.
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0:33 - 0:36In the legend he tells the story of an old man,
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0:36 - 0:37who while digging,
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0:37 - 0:40discovered a small shining object.
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0:46 - 0:47As he held it in his hand
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0:47 - 0:49it grew and grew-
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0:49 - 0:53and finally escaped into the sky and become -
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0:55 - 0:55The Moon.
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0:58 - 0:59This is the Moon,
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0:59 - 1:01that saw life begin on Earth,
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1:02 - 1:05millions of years ago.
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1:07 - 1:11"The Moon has a secret."
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1:23 - 1:28"Written in its rocks is the story of a spectacular past."
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1:30 - 1:32"Where did it come from?"
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1:34 - 1:36"What role has it played in the story of life?"
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1:38 - 1:42"For generations we have looked up and wondered."
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1:47 - 1:49"Only now is the truth being revealed."
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1:54 - 1:56"Forget what you know."
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1:56 - 1:59"It's time to see the Moon in a new light."
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2:01 - 2:02THE
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2:02 - 2:02THE SECRET
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2:02 - 2:03THE SECRET HISTORY
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2:03 - 2:03THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE
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2:03 - 2:05THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MOON
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2:08 - 2:13"Moon rocks are like pages
from an ancient history book." -
2:15 - 2:20"Fifty years ago, rock samples from Apollo
gave us our first glimpse at the Moon's epic history." -
2:20 - 2:22"Fifty years ago, rock samples from Apollo
gave us our first glimpse at the Moon's epic history."
Stones from across the night. -
2:22 - 2:22Stones from across the night.
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2:24 - 2:26By making ourselves very small,
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2:27 - 2:30perhaps we will see what this rocks has seen,
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2:31 - 2:34and remember back those billions of years.
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2:35 - 2:37Over decades now,
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2:37 - 2:38Geochemists have been measuring
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2:38 - 2:39lunar samples and earth samples-
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2:39 - 2:40[Voice of: Dr. Sarah T. Stewart ]
lunar samples and earth samples- -
2:40 - 2:42[Voice of: Dr. Sarah T. Stewart ]
and found that the chemical signatures of the two -
2:42 - 2:43and found that the chemical signatures of the two
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2:43 - 2:46are identical in a very special way.
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2:46 - 2:51That the elemental isotopes of the two bodies are identical.
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2:52 - 2:57"We also found that volatile elements
have been somehow vaporized away." -
3:00 - 3:07"These clues seem to suggest that Earth and Moon
share a common origin - a violent one." -
3:10 - 3:14"What story best fits the evidence?"
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3:14 - 3:21"Many ideas have been proposed.
But one theory has reigned supreme for decades." -
3:23 - 3:30-{ Giant Impact Hypothesis }-
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3:33 - 3:38"4.5 billion years ago, our solar system was a crowded place."
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3:40 - 3:46"As many as 20 rocky protoplanets circled the sun,
each competing for dominance." -
3:48 - 3:57"As these protoplanets collided and fused,
larger planets took shape, among them the moonless Earth." -
4:01 - 4:07"80 million years after it had formed,
Earth had one final, tremendous blow in waiting." -
4:08 - 4:13"Enter Theia:
A smaller rival planet in a fateful collision course." -
4:16 - 4:21"To any observer on the Earth, the sight would have been terrifying."
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4:41 - 4:50"Upon impact, Theia is completely obliterated,
ripping off Earth's outer layers and leaving it a molten ball." -
4:56 - 5:04"Earth becomes engulfed by a thick atmosphere of vaporized rock."
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5:17 - 5:27"Over the span of ~100 years, the orbiting disk of debris
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5:35 - 5:37The theory can explain
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5:37 - 5:38so many things about the Moon,
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5:38 - 5:41but it has a huge flaw -
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5:42 - 5:45it predicts that the Moon is mostly made
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5:45 - 5:46from the Mars sized planet.
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5:47 - 5:50That the Earth and the Moon are made from different materials.
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5:50 - 5:53But that's not what we see.
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5:54 - 5:57The Earth and the Moon are actually like identical twins.
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5:58 - 6:00The genetic code of planets
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6:00 - 6:03is writied on the isotopes of the elements.
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6:03 - 6:06The Earth and Moon have identical isotopes,
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6:06 - 6:08that means that the Earth and Moon
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6:08 - 6:12are made from the same materials.
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6:13 - 6:17"Could the long reigning theory be wrong?"
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6:18 - 6:23"To reconcile the evidence, scientists have proposed some mind-blowing ideas."
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6:25 - 6:31-{ Georeactor Hypothesis }-
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6:33 - 6:40"Early in Earth's history, radioactive elements like uranium
would have been much more abundant in its interior." -
6:43 - 6:50"These elements could have become concentrated
under Earth's surface due to centrifugal force." -
6:54 - 7:00"The result: a massive underground nuclear explosion."
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7:25 - 7:30"Under this theory, material ejected from this explosion
slowly coalesced into the Moon we know today." -
7:31 - 7:37"This would easily explain the similarities between Earth and Moon."
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7:39 - 7:44"However dramatic, the theory has its own complications."
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7:47 - 7:54"Some doubt that uranium could have been concentrated enough
to produce such a powerful eruption." -
7:56 - 7:59"Perhaps we need to change our perspective."
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7:59 - 8:02"Perhaps we need to change our perspective."
What do you do when faced with the unknown? -
8:02 - 8:03What do you do when faced with the unknown?
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8:03 - 8:06Question everything...
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8:09 - 8:17"After re-examining the giant impact idea,
a fascinating new theory is beginning to emerge." -
8:19 - 8:22-{ Synestia Hypothesis }-
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8:22 - 8:25-{ Synestia Hypothesis }-
We were making the mistake -
8:25 - 8:27-{ Synestia Hypothesis }-
of thinking that a planet -
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would always look like a planet. -
8:29 - 8:29-{ Synestia Hypothesis }-
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8:35 - 8:36The giant impact
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8:37 - 8:40was making something completely new.
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8:41 - 8:50"In this new theory, Earth was hit so hard that it was
completely pulverized into a torus of liquid rock: a "synestia"." -
8:56 - 8:58The energy from the impact-
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8:58 - 9:01vaporizes the surface, the water, the atmosphere
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9:01 - 9:03and mixes all of the gases together
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9:03 - 9:06just in few hours.
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9:13 - 9:14The Earth would have been like Jupiter,
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9:15 - 9:18there's nothing to stand on.
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9:22 - 9:25A synestia gives us a new way
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9:25 - 9:30to solve the problem of the origin of the Moon.
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9:32 - 9:35The Moon grew from magma rain
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9:35 - 9:39that condensed out of the rock vapor.
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9:40 - 9:43The Moon could have orbited inside the synestia
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9:43 - 9:44for years,
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9:44 - 9:46hidden from view.
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9:46 - 9:50Revealed by the synestia cooling and shrinking,
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9:50 - 9:52inside of its orbit.
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10:02 - 10:04The synestia turns into Earth
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10:04 - 10:08only after cooling for hundreds of years longer.
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10:10 - 10:12The Moon special connection to Earth
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10:12 - 10:15is because the Moon formed inside the Earth
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10:15 - 10:18when Earth was a synestia.
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10:23 - 10:27Synestias have been created throughout the Universe.
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10:28 - 10:30We only just realized that
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10:30 - 10:33by finding them into our imagination.
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10:35 - 10:45"The synestia theory is still unproven. But it brings us
closer than ever to cracking the secret of the Moon's origin." -
10:47 - 10:51"The Moon holds its secrets close.
What else could it be hiding?" -
10:51 - 10:53"The Moon holds its secrets close.
What else could it be hiding?"
What else am I missing? -
10:53 - 10:55"The Moon holds its secrets close.
What else could it be hiding?" -
10:55 - 10:57"The Moon holds its secrets close.
What else could it be hiding?"
What is hidden from my view by my own assumptions? -
10:57 - 11:00What is hidden from my view by my own assumptions?
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11:03 - 11:13"On its way to becoming the barren rock we know today,
it may have once held liquid water - and even life." -
11:30 - 11:40"Twice in its history, lunar volcanism brought huge amounts
of water vapor from the Moon's interior to the surface." -
11:51 - 12:01"These massive outgassings could have led to
surface water and a lunar atmosphere, 4 to 3.5 billion years ago." -
12:03 - 12:12"Imagine swimming in a pool of Moon water,
looking up at early Earth as life evolved." -
12:32 - 12:42"In theory, microorganisms from Earth could have arrived
via asteroid impact and settled in these waters." -
12:44 - 12:50"But if there was ever life on the Moon, it was not to last."
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12:53 - 13:02"Over time, any surface water would have dried up,
and almost all of its atmosphere lost to space." -
13:04 - 13:10"But the Moon would leave its mark on life
in a different, more profound way." -
13:11 - 13:15"It may even be the reason we exist at all."
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13:18 - 13:27"As Earth evolved, the Moon's gravity stabilized its tilt,
protecting life from extreme swings in climate." -
13:29 - 13:37"Life on Earth would be very different,
or even nonexistent, without our Moon." -
13:40 - 13:46"To know its history is to know our own.
Our roots are connected." -
13:47 - 13:51"We have learned much.
But mysteries still remain." -
13:53 - 13:57"To know the full story, we have to go back."
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13:59 - 14:03"More pages of the Moon's history are waiting for us."
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14:04 - 14:09"Whether we return or not is up to us."
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14:11 - 14:17"It will be waiting for us, like it always has."
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Sarah T. Stewart,
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- Title:
- The Secret History of the Moon - 4K
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The Moon has drawn out our sense of wonder since before we were fully human. Where did it come from? What secrets are written in its rocks? For most of our history, its story was cloaked in myth and mystery. Only now are the vivid details coming into focus
This video takes you back 4.5 billion years to witness the dramatic ways which the moon could have formed, according to the latest mind-blowing theories. By reading the clues written in Moon rocks, we are closer than ever to knowing its full story. But the Moon still holds its secrets close. What else is it hiding?
Concept, visual effects, and music by melodysheep (John D. Boswell). Featuring the voice of Dr. Sarah T. Stewart, and samples from Moonwalk One and Man and the Moon. Additional visuals by Tim Stupak, Sarah T. Stewart and NASA.
Special thanks to Spacefox for their support of this video. Please check out http://Spacefox.shop
Thanks to: Dr. Sarah T. Stewart, Tim Stupak, NASA, Juan Benet, Rowdy Jansen, Kimi Ushida (EFF: https://www.eff.org/) Eric Malette, Gregory Andrew Paige, Brandon Sanders, and John Maier.
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Sources and additional references:
TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_t_stewart_where_did_the_moon_come_from_a_new_theory?language=en
Moonwalk One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GVpoSrqMMg
Man and the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_N3EYMgya4Georeactor theory: https://www.technologyreview.com/2010/01/27/206453/moon-may-have-formed-in-natural-nuclear-explosion/
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