Is it just me, or does it sound a bit...sus...that the moon EXACTLY matches its orbit around the Earth, such that we NEVER see the backside of the moon?
Or it's possible that they lied about the entire thing. The moon doesn't rotate and neither does the Earth.
Believing the moon is rotating at the perfect velocity to never turn even 1° over the span of thousands of years is way more ridiculous than belief in a stationary earth.
Exactly. One would think that if an asteroid or other space debris were to hit the moon and bounce off of it at just the right angle, that it would set the moon spinning at even a miniscule amount.
the moon is tidally locked to the earth. supposedly, from my understanding, this happens because the side facing the earth is subject to stronger gravitational forces than the side facing away, and thus it's pulled toward the earth with more force than the other side, causing it to constantly face the earth. whether or not this is actually the truth, I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem suspicious to me.
Why is this type of rotation any different than the planets orbiting the sun? Surely the sun is big enough to cause a similar effect with at least some of the closer planets, just as the Earth does with the moon.
supposedly planets rotations ARE slowing down, actually, just not at a rate at which it'll have any real effect. (from what I've read earth days become about 2 milliseconds longer per year, so it would take hundreds of years to even increase the length of a day by one second.)
note that I haven't done extensive research on this and this could all be horseshit.
"So yes, the Moon does rotate.
But its rotation exactly matches its orbit around the Earth, which is why it looks like it never does."
https://www.universetoday.com/19699/does-the-moon-rotate/
Is it just me, or does it sound a bit...sus...that the moon EXACTLY matches its orbit around the Earth, such that we NEVER see the backside of the moon?
Yes. NASA is a deepstate entity.
Or it's possible that they lied about the entire thing. The moon doesn't rotate and neither does the Earth.
Believing the moon is rotating at the perfect velocity to never turn even 1° over the span of thousands of years is way more ridiculous than belief in a stationary earth.
Exactly. One would think that if an asteroid or other space debris were to hit the moon and bounce off of it at just the right angle, that it would set the moon spinning at even a miniscule amount.
the moon is tidally locked to the earth. supposedly, from my understanding, this happens because the side facing the earth is subject to stronger gravitational forces than the side facing away, and thus it's pulled toward the earth with more force than the other side, causing it to constantly face the earth. whether or not this is actually the truth, I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem suspicious to me.
Why is this type of rotation any different than the planets orbiting the sun? Surely the sun is big enough to cause a similar effect with at least some of the closer planets, just as the Earth does with the moon.
supposedly planets rotations ARE slowing down, actually, just not at a rate at which it'll have any real effect. (from what I've read earth days become about 2 milliseconds longer per year, so it would take hundreds of years to even increase the length of a day by one second.)
note that I haven't done extensive research on this and this could all be horseshit.
"note that I haven't done extensive research on this and this could all be horseshit."
This is the problem -- you don't know what's true and what's false anymore.