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Welcome to Science Fiction, | 0:00:04 | 0:00:05 | |
the show where we take the most common myths about science... | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
..and send them straight into orbit. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
What's today's question, BUD E? | 0:00:11 | 0:00:13 | |
Sorry, love. A bit spaced out today, I am. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:16 | |
HE YAWNS | 0:00:16 | 0:00:17 | |
Today's question comes from Arnie in Killarney. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
Is the moon made of cheese? | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
Oh, there's a bit of a bang off this one already. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
The moon was formed over 4.5 billion years ago, | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
when the solar system was only beginning to take shape. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
Tiny particles of food floating around in space | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
came together over time to form the planets. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
Chocolate made Mars, cheese made the moon, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
spuds and onion rings made Saturn... | 0:00:40 | 0:00:41 | |
Professor, I wish you'd stop making up these silly stories! | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
Sorry, it just sounded so tasty. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
There are several theories on how the moon actually came to exist. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
Most scientists agree that the moon was created | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
when a massive object about the size of Mars | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
crashed into the Earth's surface, | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
and the resulting cloud of rock and gases | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
slowly came together to form the moon. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
But what's up with the cheesy looking surface? | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
The huge holes we see on the moon, called craters, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
were created by countless asteroids and comets | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
smashing into the moon over millions of years. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
Oh, the poor old craters. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
So there you have it, Arnie. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
The moon in the big tasty, but it definitely isn't made of cheese. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
That's just a load of old science fiction. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
# Fly me to the moon | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
# The cheesy moon | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
# The squeezy, cheesy, peasy moon... # | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 |