Our Moon was a random pick – filling up the kindle prior to a flight. The author weaves between actual exposition of the scientific facts and theories about the moon and its creation (and subsequence exploration by humans), and wildly wacko stuff that seems irrelevant, such as native Americans being offended by the moon landings (seriously? Why should I care? Why should anyone hold back progress for people with pre-scientific cultural taboos)
I learned a ton of interesting facts, such as the current
theory that the moon was the result of a collision between two proto-earths,
and the various differences in calendaring systems that all have to struggle
with reconciling the differences between the lunar orbit and the Earth’s orbit
around the Sun.
But to extract all that I had to wade through tons and tons
of irrelevant material. This book could have used a much better editor.
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