r/interestingasfuck • u/howimetyourcakeshop • 9h ago

Our moon being formed.

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u/Peppers_16 9h ago

I - and movies for that matter - often forget that Earth is actually a liquid ball with a crispy crust on the outside. 

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius 6h ago

Its moreso that at celestial body scales, solids act more similar to liquids

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u/DinosaurDucky 3h ago

Can you say a bit more on this? I always learned that most of the mass and the volume of the earth is liquid between the crust and the core

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius 3h ago

It's less a liquid and more of a plastic solid. Technically a liquid but in a similar way as to how asphalt is technically a liquid.