There's a specific geological term for that (I forget what it is) but it doesn't sound as impressive as "magma ocean".
All non-sedimentary rock was liquid at some point. They did simply find rock. It just so happens that they think this rock is exposed rock from the mantle. It's not like some volcano farted this out and that's somehow interesting. The word "ocean" also carries a lot of connotations that are not really applicable to a bunch of hot rock that was exposed by an impact. It's not like this was some pool of lava that was sloshing around up there.
You may not be the only one, but there's plenty of reason to believe they did this. For a start the West carefully tracks spacecraft trajectories using radar, the vehicle's transmissions are easily monitored (if not interpreted) using directional antennae and we can still do so for the orbiter, and surely did so for the landed vehicle on the earth facing side.
The vehicle on the far side is harder to verify, but it went into Lunar orbit and disappeared so it definitely went somewhere. Outing this as a fraud would have been trivially easy for many nations, plenty of independent scientists and even some amateur groups that have the gear and motivation to do so.
No you are not the only one. There are many people out there that believe the US and the USSR have fabricated their moon landing. And also plenty of groups that claim the earth is flat. You can find them easily with some quick googling.
I believe that we landed on the moon. The US is the worlds greatest country and we have freedom.
I don't believe the Chinese did. The Chinese government has what 5 million people in concentration camps and they claim that they don't
China is extremely behind in technology so that is why they are always sending immigrants to the US. They pretend to be US citizens get jobs at apple and boeing and then they send everything back to china in a usb drive.
China is known for faking GDP statistics, and they build massive empty cities to fake economic growth
They jail anyone who is skeptical about china's claims, if I was in China right now I would probably be in jail for questioning the governments moon landing.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think the flagged comment is a troll-troll.
There are streaks of self-awareness in that comment if you squint hard enough. This troll is clearly out to "sow" discord in the community, and he's being compensated for it in some manner. I say that because it's hard to arrive on any other conclusion -- why would he waste time on an audience like this of all places?
Thanks to hackernews api, now I don't need to see shit comments like this and filter out xenophobic posts and comments. Hackernews comment section and many posts have become a propaganda machine. Too bad hackernews is going far right and down the drain.
This such a great advancement but no tech is discussed in the comments. Sad.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 42.7 ms ] threadRock. They found rock. No need to make water analogies for rock.
All non-sedimentary rock was liquid at some point. They did simply find rock. It just so happens that they think this rock is exposed rock from the mantle. It's not like some volcano farted this out and that's somehow interesting. The word "ocean" also carries a lot of connotations that are not really applicable to a bunch of hot rock that was exposed by an impact. It's not like this was some pool of lava that was sloshing around up there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_mare
The vehicle on the far side is harder to verify, but it went into Lunar orbit and disappeared so it definitely went somewhere. Outing this as a fraud would have been trivially easy for many nations, plenty of independent scientists and even some amateur groups that have the gear and motivation to do so.
White nation , 14 = 14 words , 88 = Adolf Hitler.
Don't waste your time with this troll.
I don't believe the Chinese did. The Chinese government has what 5 million people in concentration camps and they claim that they don't
China is extremely behind in technology so that is why they are always sending immigrants to the US. They pretend to be US citizens get jobs at apple and boeing and then they send everything back to china in a usb drive.
China is known for faking GDP statistics, and they build massive empty cities to fake economic growth
They jail anyone who is skeptical about china's claims, if I was in China right now I would probably be in jail for questioning the governments moon landing.
This sentence makes no sense at all: >"China is extremely behind in technology so that is why they are always sending immigrants to the US."
There are streaks of self-awareness in that comment if you squint hard enough. This troll is clearly out to "sow" discord in the community, and he's being compensated for it in some manner. I say that because it's hard to arrive on any other conclusion -- why would he waste time on an audience like this of all places?
This such a great advancement but no tech is discussed in the comments. Sad.