r/interestingasfuck • u/howimetyourcakeshop • 10h ago

Our moon being formed.

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u/destructopop 8h ago

I love this simulation. I makes me deeply uncomfortable in a weird way. Not because of a future concern, but the memory that our planet was once jiggly molten chaos after a collision with a similarly sized body. I studied astrophysics... I rationally know this. But seeing it makes my tummy feel bad. Love it.

It's kinda like the visualisation of what would happen to a small object (like a human) passing through the atmosphere of Jupiter towards the core... The compression as you pass through thicker and thicker layers of matter and closer to the center of gravity. I picture it more often than most, because it makes me feel icky and I'm grim I guess.

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u/scidious06 8h ago

Even without perfectly understanding the physics behind such events, just the sheer VIOLENCE of this impact is insane

I mean we live on that ball, it's quite literally our whole world and it's absolutely massive from our perspective, to just see it being it with such force that it basically liquefies is almost incomprehensible

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u/LordBlackadder92 4h ago

If it happens again, make sure you hide under the table otherwise you may end up with some nasty scratches.