And despite those facts, Mal, hose rocks are so relatively UNspecial, that it leads a great many to say "Are they really from the moon? Or just antarctica?"
Likewise, the number of government coverups from the 40's, 50's, 60's, and even 70's is doing absolutely nothing to convince Joe Normal that the government can be trusted to say that the president is a human being. (Of course, there are doubts about that too, but that delves into politics...)
There are a tiny but significant and vocal minority who don't believe that the shuttle flies, a larger minority that believe the difficulties of the shuttle prove that Apollo spacecraft went up empty, and a larger group still who believe that the apollo program was faked in part. Even weirder, some of these people also believe that Roswell was an alien crash site.
That being said, it is possible, under basics of orbital mechanics, WITH SUFFICIENT AND REPEATED COLLISIONS, to alter the orbit. I can't refute that it's possible that they all lined up at some point. I can suggest that the probability has a 1x10^X, where X is a very high magnitude negative number, probably well more than six places.
The total energy input to get 1m/s of vector change on a planet is a mind numbing figure. 1E20 N or more, as I recall..
Gathering that without traumatic failure of planetary integrity requires numerous aligned smaller not-too-fast-nor-slow impacts, or a preponderance of impacts in alignment.
Possible, but not plausible.
Likewise, the number of government coverups from the 40's, 50's, 60's, and even 70's is doing absolutely nothing to convince Joe Normal that the government can be trusted to say that the president is a human being. (Of course, there are doubts about that too, but that delves into politics...)
There are a tiny but significant and vocal minority who don't believe that the shuttle flies, a larger minority that believe the difficulties of the shuttle prove that Apollo spacecraft went up empty, and a larger group still who believe that the apollo program was faked in part. Even weirder, some of these people also believe that Roswell was an alien crash site.
That being said, it is possible, under basics of orbital mechanics, WITH SUFFICIENT AND REPEATED COLLISIONS, to alter the orbit. I can't refute that it's possible that they all lined up at some point. I can suggest that the probability has a 1x10^X, where X is a very high magnitude negative number, probably well more than six places.
The total energy input to get 1m/s of vector change on a planet is a mind numbing figure. 1E20 N or more, as I recall..
Gathering that without traumatic failure of planetary integrity requires numerous aligned smaller not-too-fast-nor-slow impacts, or a preponderance of impacts in alignment.
Possible, but not plausible.
