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onceuponatime (72)in #steemiteducation • 7 years ago (edited)

""What feeds it?
This is still a mystery........""

Perhaps one needs to leave the powerful, but narrow, confines of logic and mainstream science and enter the world of once upon a time (ie. mythology) to begin to grasp what is food for the Moon :-)

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ruth-girl (71) 7 years ago

Oops! I got busted here... I was thinking of launching a new series on greek mythology soon! My mom made sure we had plenty of such books in the house and as a child I read a lot about it.
After all, life would be so dull without a little fairytale (you can tell that from most of my posts) :D

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onceuponatime (72) 7 years ago

"This is still a mystery, but the various hypotheses include:

Strikes of solar wind and high energy photons that scratch atoms from the lunar soil (sputtering).
Celestial bodies (comets and asteroids) that hit the moon and release atoms (sputtering).
Chemical reactions of the lunar soil atoms and solar wind.
Evaporation of lunar soil ingredients.
The moon's interior by outgassing (often during moonquakes), when the surface temperatures drop (during night-time), the escape velocities lower and gas particles can't get away that easily."

6: Food for the Moon: https://thecasswiki.net/index.php?title=Food_for_the_Moon

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ruth-girl (71) 7 years ago (edited)

In my romantic writings of puberty the moon would feed on bitter lovers' secrets, pain and disappointment. It would look so melancholic because of all the human pain people would unbosom.
I see the main idea is more or less the same here. Pain? Violence? Destruction?
Or is it an allegory meant to put us in deeper thoughts about who we are, what we're supposed to be and what rules of existence we must comply with? Our pain and suffering being the toll for an ancient sin and the moon being the one to whom we pay our debt? Round and cold, representing a balance that man disturbed and now has to make it up for?
I mean the circle is the perfect minimalistic depiction of balance. It could be the symbol of a cosmic balance that was spoiled and now needs to be restored, that's why the moon gets bigger as it feeds on us and it won't stop until our sin is washed away and the dept is paid.
Wooh! Certainly an interesting way to start my day, thank you for the link. :)