I am grateful for JMG. I struggled for years with Rx sleep meds. Not anymore though. This has been my sleep aid since 2017 and I don’t take a single prescription drug anymore. That’s a real service to people like me. I love this channel and everything about it. I hope it never changes a thing and never goes away.
Indeed. Great content, and prolific as well. If you haven't watched his Event Horizon channel (interviews with scientists) it's good too. Not every interview is a banger, but many are absolutely fascinating.
100 percent! Multiple times... 1. To get kid to sleep 2. To go to sleep myself 3. Something to listen to at the shop 4. To really try to understand it (im pretty slow)
Your work is wonderful to listen to whilst doing stressful programming tasks. You have a lovely rythym and cadence that makes it easy to pick up your meaning, without it necessarily hogging the forefront of my attention, which is perfect when listening at work.
Have you tried ChatGPT yet? I have not and while there is ZERO chance I would actually trust what it outputs I think it could be indispensable for generation of algorithms and subroutines meaning if ya have a problem needing solved ask it to produce and see what you get and use it for inspiration. I code in C++ and could definitely see benefit in it.
@@seditt5146 I signed up for the subscription as soon as it was available. I tend to find that its pretty good for discrete code chunks, but (understandably) struggles with anything that involves an IDE which has significant UI or visual editing. Actually what I've found it best for is generation for creative projects, or giving me a quick primer on particular topics. I've found that writing to Chat like a pen pal, or like one used to in long posts on forums back in the day, yields the best results.
You've given me more rabbitholes to explore. By far my favorite channel. Chapters would make it easier to go back and get specifics to launch my further investigation.
Thanks for another great video! It's fascinating and a little humbling to think there are still mysteries on our oldest planetary partner. It shines up there in the sky nearly every night and seems perfectly ordinary, but it has electrically charged levitating dust fronts, transient lights and clouds, and who knows what buried inside. A good reminder of how subtle and profound mysteries are everywhere.
I suspect the moon is key to the unique habitability of the earth. This includes: tides, techtonic plates (ie, actual land), stabilized orbit. The creation of the moon via the unique collision of the planet Thea, and the mixing of the cores, may have given rise to the unique feature of earth: techtonic plates, without which we would not have land, just a shallow worldwide ocean. Including these calculations in the Drake equation may go a long way to explain the Fermi "Paradox".
Great video John. I really enjoy hearing about lesser known facts or oddities about space. I like having Event Horizon for the big topics and hearing the more obscure things here. Though I have to imagine it gets hard finding new topics over time.
It does get harder in the sense that the history of observational astronomy only has so many mysteries, but at the same time new mysteries are still cropping up. But I also have entire peripheral areas that I could dip into that I've never discussed. What of the mysteries of chemistry and how that relates to space? What's going to happen with AI? What craziness is going to happen with under water archeology and what would it mean if we found a defunct alien spacecraft? So I still got decades worth of stuff to explore in videos. It's still a matter of having more ideas than time to write them out as scripts.
@@JohnMichaelGodier you should absolutely do the mysteries of chemistry. Would imagine you could do a mini series. There is so much you could dive into.
@@JohnMichaelGodier There’s also so many new mysteries just with what the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered in its first year or two of existence!
Another great video. I had a brief comment conversation with @johnmichaelgodier a few weeks ago asking about this very subject and he replied that it would be a good list, so I will go ahead and claim this video as mine, thank you very much:) #1, Lunar Transient Lights, always has a slightly creepy aspect about it to me personally. Great imagery here, I bet most if not all of it is from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
You do indeed get the credit. It was a capital idea for a video. Yes, the vast majority are from LRO, but there are various Apollo images mixed in as well. There's even one single early image I used from the Ranger program. The video is sort of a showcase of cool moon images I've come across over the years and saved for a rainy day. And, in fact, it actually was rainy outside during production.
Good on ya mate for suggesting this. I've been listening to EH for a while now and I had no idea that this channel existed. This popped up in my "recommended list" after watching a theoretical physicists video on Avi Loab (spelling). This was an excellent way to slow down my smooth brain and learn something new. 🙃👍
The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never been anywhere near the moon.Sep 1, 2009
first, there is really no "dark side" of the moon, as the side we never see from earth gets plenty of sunlight. second, it is not smooth. In fact, it is significantly more cratered than the near side that we see.
The moon is very strange. 2160° makes a cube on Geometry. The diameter of the moon turns out to be 2160 miles. I’m the book of revelations, the holy city when converted to miles, is describing a cube that is 1500 miles on a side. That means the holy city “coincidentally” fits perfectly inside the moon. Plus a lot of other myths and legends confirm the Ark is the Moon. “most people do not understand what the moon is saying about the state of our existence”. - Randall Carlson
As far as the red clouds do you suppose that could be dust circulating from collapses and avalanches inside the craters? I lived in Hawaii during the 2018 eruption and when a major vent (Pu'u O'o) collapsed a large pinkish red cloud rose above the area. This came from pulverized reddish, iron rich basaltic rock. I saw this live from about 10-12 miles away.
Surprised that you didn't mention the fact that the lunar mare are found only on the side that faces Earth, and not on the side that faces away from Earth.
The far side would likely show mare if it were not more frequently impacted and cratered. Tidally locked, the near side is somewhat protected by Earth’s field of gravity. Those far side features have Russian/Soviet names as they photographed them first.
@Michael Emory also, the since the mare are the result of ancient lava flows bubbling up to the surface abd filling in those regions, being the side tidally locked towards the Earth, and thus the Earth's gravity, might have a more direct causal effect on their formation...
YES!! Another Luna video!! I love you, John!! People might wonder why I'm gushing about this, but I've always had a very strong fascination with barren, crater-covered worlds with little to no atmosphere. Yeah, I know. I'm probably odd for having that view, lol. If I was truly a Starfleet captain, I'd take my ship and poke around those moons and planets that everyone else ignores because they are too "boring".
The Moon is fascinating because it's right there, an alien world we can see by just looking in the sky. And like it says in the video, who knows what we may find when we finally get to start poking around inside the craters and caves.
Every time i watch your videos i really cant finish it haha. Ive be falling in deep sleep listening to you brother! Nice contents and reading voice. You've help me a lot with my insomnia.
The moon is a luminary within the firmament. Genesis 1:16-19, "And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day."
He did indeed, but you’re mistaken to think that “in the firmament” means within the earth’s atmosphere. We commonly say that the sun and moon are “up in the sky.” There’s nothing about the sun and moon being in outer space that contradicts the Bible.
I never forget that the sun is a star. I think about it all the time. Was thinking about it earlier this evening driving home with a beautiful hazy orange ball setting ahead.
Ah. I remember back when I was a child, while pondering the mysteries of geometry and perception, me and my childhood cousins were hanging out in our yard (it used to be beautiful back then! It used to be a suburban area with a huge field behind our homes... not anymore). It was a full moon night with a clear sky, warm summer night. My eldest cousin, who likes to play pranks sometimes, said that he saw / thinks there are monsters on the moon 🤣. Even as a 10 year old I knew that was him being him, but it still set my mind thinking about that possibility... what if there was life on the moon? Me being the nerd and science fan that I am, I already knew many facts about the moon, but it still left me wonder nonetheless. Even today I keep staring at the moon when it's full like some sort of creep 😆 I just keep being fascinated by it... Like, just think about it for a second. You're lucky enough to live on a planet which has a single beautiful companion!
The first video on my channel is a First Century dialog of people debating what is on the Moon (From Plutarch: Moralia). 😊. Your story reminded me of it.
I have a hypothesis for the Swirls, prob wrong but Ill give it a go. What if its Ice or water inside of the Lunar caves! The cave could have water vapor and be relatively insulating leading to ice only directly above the cave where as melt would darken the surrounding areas due to better thermal contact. While the Atmosphere is zero for the most part on the moon it does not need to be inside of the cave as out-gassing in some caves could almost surely overwhelm the loss leading to a very tentative atmosphere with a non-zero pressure allowing condensation. This hypothesis could be tested via careful inspection of the regions above the caves mouth possibly even via watching the regions just as they fall in and out of sunlight measuring the albedo looking for a difference between when it just comes out into the sun compared to just about to go into shade looking for vapor or lowering of the surrounding materials albedo as water melts off.
Cody's lab addressed the importance of keeping lunar polar craters pristine as it may hold an ideal record of Earth's activity stretching back a very long time. Although it may be a prime spot for a base, that activity may ruin important records. Any thoughts?
Cody's right. It's entirely possible that the moon could be a treasure trove of information about Earth's history. The ice is one aspect, and we should definitely study it before melting and drinking it, but imagine the stuff that's been blasted off earth over the eons. Sedimentary rocks with fossils, primitive materials that long ago melted or were subducted here on earth, all sorts of stuff might be there.
@@JohnMichaelGodier There is something mysterious going on in that location so NASA decided to land in a spot of no interest. Just a very boring landing of man on the Moon. Conclusion: no man ever landed on the Moon. Link: ruclips.net/video/9GcQJxZOdos/видео.html
Install an array of towers and wire to capture and use solar wind. I've heard similar things happen with earthbound radio towers that build so much energy from the magnetic field it has to be shunted into the ground
I have been obsessed with the moon even before the 60s. I find it hard to believe other people don't share my interest 🤷.Perhaps that will change when we go back🙋
One of the strangest, yet most prosaic, mysteries of the Moon is that the ratio between the Moon's size and distance, and that of the Sun, is so close to being 1:1 so as to allow us to view the Sun's corona during total eclipses.
@gerryjamesedwards1227: That won't be possible in the future as the moon is slowly moving away from the Earth (about 1cm per year) so the view will change. The Apollo 11 astronauts left laser reflectors on the moon so its possible to measure the exact distance it is from the Earth.
I believe the failed mission (Apollo) was the first attempt to go to the moon( the one in which we failed) and prior to the Apollo we had never landed on the surface of the moon.Prior to the Apollo we staged the first moon landing securing our names in the space race .We have never been back to the moon because we know trouble awaits us with booby traps from other intelligent beings.
NASA says it has moonrock brought back by Apollo crews, incontrovertible proof they went there. But when l consider the moon missions in detail l struggle to understand how Apollo happened. Unbelievable as you say.
@@leonardgibney2997 When I consider everything that goes into my almost daily facetime conversations I have with my friend who lives on the opposite side of the planet, I struggle to understand how it's possible. Unbelievable, as you said. And yet, here we are...
I can imagine that the irregularity of surface swirls could be due to effects of subsurface structure upon shockwave focus. That shock from large antipodal impacts. Previously unexposed particles are disrupted in accumulation areas, mares and valleys between ridges and rims. Don’t know if the word ‘patina’ applies to long surface exposure to solar wind. One of my favorite ‘lunar posers’ is based on orbit dynamics…. Moon’s orbit around Earth always concave in relation to Earth. Earth to Sun is the same, concave. Moon to Sun is concave while it circles Earth…. How so? Frequencies.
I watched a blood red moon rise out of the Atlantic Ocean one night last year. It slowly went to orange then completely white. I have never seen anything like it before.
Good Morrow and happy Monday JMG, I hope this comment finds you happy healthy and hearty! I just really would like to say I appreciate your videos, and I am grateful for them. So thank you! I am at the lunar cloud portion of the video and it reminded me of a question that I have tried to find a satisfactory answer via google and other mediums, and I don’t get a clear answer. However I think you would be the perfect person to ask. So, why doesn’t IO the Jonovan moon have an atmosphere????
If you want more, the USGS has a treasure trove of public domain volcano videos. I've been going through it for footage and it's just amazing: www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/multimedia/videos
I always thought the Moon swirls were dark and that they were caused by electromagnetic forces like the sparking type of situation on the moon that occurs and behaves somewhat like iron filings with a magnet. Probably just imagined that sometime in the past. Thanks for being there for us, you're awesome!
I am grateful for JMG. I struggled for years with Rx sleep meds. Not anymore though. This has been my sleep aid since 2017 and I don’t take a single prescription drug anymore. That’s a real service to people like me. I love this channel and everything about it. I hope it never changes a thing and never goes away.
Right on, man. Thanks for sharing, and I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I am glad you’re feeling better!
Maybe you need a man with a deep voice in your everyday life
I totally agree with you Shain he has one of the most relaxing voices that's like drinking the finest Belgian hot chocolate ever made lol!
@@ugiswrong 😂
Love the uploads at night. These are too good to watch during the day.
Well put. Never considered this, but the truth is undeniable. 😊
@@BMichaelGalloway hello. Can you please elaborate
I think you are confused. The Earth is round, so any upload will be at night for *someone* :-)
Found this channel bout a week ago and absolutely loving it recently. Was even talking about you to people, love the content dude!
I started following in 2020, just after the pandemic shutdown. Glad to say that he has yet to disappoint!
Indeed. Great content, and prolific as well. If you haven't watched his Event Horizon channel (interviews with scientists) it's good too. Not every interview is a banger, but many are absolutely fascinating.
Dude is informed, realistic, careful, and epic, his interviews top his thought essay's
I wish I had people to talk about him to:(
You have a ton of previous content that are complete gems. Enjoy the adventure.
I have to listen to your videos twice. Once at night to fall asleep and the second time in the morning to pay attention
100 percent! Multiple times... 1. To get kid to sleep 2. To go to sleep myself 3. Something to listen to at the shop 4. To really try to understand it (im pretty slow)
Your work is wonderful to listen to whilst doing stressful programming tasks. You have a lovely rythym and cadence that makes it easy to pick up your meaning, without it necessarily hogging the forefront of my attention, which is perfect when listening at work.
Fellow programmer! What language do you code in?
Have you tried ChatGPT yet? I have not and while there is ZERO chance I would actually trust what it outputs I think it could be indispensable for generation of algorithms and subroutines meaning if ya have a problem needing solved ask it to produce and see what you get and use it for inspiration. I code in C++ and could definitely see benefit in it.
@@seditt5146 For now, Chat GPT is a pretty good wall to bounce ideas off of.
Well said, I agree🙌🏽💯
@@seditt5146 I signed up for the subscription as soon as it was available. I tend to find that its pretty good for discrete code chunks, but (understandably) struggles with anything that involves an IDE which has significant UI or visual editing.
Actually what I've found it best for is generation for creative projects, or giving me a quick primer on particular topics.
I've found that writing to Chat like a pen pal, or like one used to in long posts on forums back in the day, yields the best results.
I showed up to watch the new video from a couple days ago… and there’s already a new one. You’re a beast, John!
I love some moon mysteries. Dreaming of monoliths tonight.
I like having my knowledge expanded while also having my anxiety soothed.
The mood of this music tho...
Yeah... 🎶 🎵 very nice.
Reminds me of Runescape
Little bit of a slow 💃
Very moony, or seaworldy
I love it.
You've given me more rabbitholes to explore. By far my favorite channel. Chapters would make it easier to go back and get specifics to launch my further investigation.
I'm always excited for fresh JMG
Sometimes I can't stop looking at the moon but more in amazement and wonder
Moon mysteries is probably the most mysterious of all mysteries
I like the lack of distracting animations and the soothing narration style 👍🏻
Thanks for another great video! It's fascinating and a little humbling to think there are still mysteries on our oldest planetary partner. It shines up there in the sky nearly every night and seems perfectly ordinary, but it has electrically charged levitating dust fronts, transient lights and clouds, and who knows what buried inside. A good reminder of how subtle and profound mysteries are everywhere.
For once JMG is not suspicious about something in the skies😂
And that makes me suspicious. 🤔
I suspect the moon is key to the unique habitability of the earth. This includes: tides, techtonic plates (ie, actual land), stabilized orbit.
The creation of the moon via the unique collision of the planet Thea, and the mixing of the cores, may have given rise to the unique feature of earth: techtonic plates, without which we would not have land, just a shallow worldwide ocean.
Including these calculations in the Drake equation may go a long way to explain the Fermi "Paradox".
Great video John. I really enjoy hearing about lesser known facts or oddities about space. I like having Event Horizon for the big topics and hearing the more obscure things here. Though I have to imagine it gets hard finding new topics over time.
It does get harder in the sense that the history of observational astronomy only has so many mysteries, but at the same time new mysteries are still cropping up. But I also have entire peripheral areas that I could dip into that I've never discussed. What of the mysteries of chemistry and how that relates to space? What's going to happen with AI? What craziness is going to happen with under water archeology and what would it mean if we found a defunct alien spacecraft? So I still got decades worth of stuff to explore in videos. It's still a matter of having more ideas than time to write them out as scripts.
@@JohnMichaelGodier you should absolutely do the mysteries of chemistry. Would imagine you could do a mini series. There is so much you could dive into.
@@JohnMichaelGodier chemistry is a nice idea
@@JohnMichaelGodierwould also love a chemistry series
@@JohnMichaelGodier There’s also so many new mysteries just with what the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered in its first year or two of existence!
Another great video. I had a brief comment conversation with @johnmichaelgodier a few weeks ago asking about this very subject and he replied that it would be a good list, so I will go ahead and claim this video as mine, thank you very much:) #1, Lunar Transient Lights, always has a slightly creepy aspect about it to me personally. Great imagery here, I bet most if not all of it is from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
You do indeed get the credit. It was a capital idea for a video. Yes, the vast majority are from LRO, but there are various Apollo images mixed in as well. There's even one single early image I used from the Ranger program. The video is sort of a showcase of cool moon images I've come across over the years and saved for a rainy day. And, in fact, it actually was rainy outside during production.
@John Michael Godier The cycle of life lol.
Good on ya mate for suggesting this. I've been listening to EH for a while now and I had no idea that this channel existed. This popped up in my "recommended list" after watching a theoretical physicists video on Avi Loab (spelling). This was an excellent way to slow down my smooth brain and learn something new. 🙃👍
@@JohnMichaelGodier I didn’t realize I was reading this in your voice until I involuntarily read the end as “… outside during producshuuuuuuun.” 😅
I'd love to visit the moon but realistically not going to be able to in my lifetime. I will forever hold out hope though.
The hard to understand thing is that the tiny lights in the night sky are mighty suns.
Dude is informed, realistic, careful, and epic, his interviews top his thought essay's
Rare combo to be honest. Man is a treasure.
And he’s not too macho to enjoy a drink with a tiny paper umbrella in it and tell us about it….legendary!
@@roadkillanonymous4807 real men festoon thir drinks
I love looking at the Moon. Despite all the other wonders out there, it's the Moon that always ends up drawing me in when the telescope is out.
Would love a similar video on the so far known mysteries of Jupiter’s Galilean moons. There is so much potential in them.
The moon pulls on our seas to create tides. Is it wrong to suggest the Earth is pulling the dust off the moon to create the dust clouds?
I've listened to this video, and now I've got this weird possum in a LeBaron modified as a lunar rover prepared to go to the Moon in my house 😮
OMG, there was a lunar eclipse visible where I lived earlier today. Chicago had a nice view.
I'm confused. Are you saying that your God had something to do with the eclipse?
@@AndrewBlucher omg is just turn of phrase. They said nothing of the such
@@AndrewBlucher epic /r/atheism moment
U moved
Your videos get recommended right when I need them. Thanks man!
When you first said "Lunar Swirls", I heard "lunar Squirrels" and thought to myself, that's awesome.
The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never been anywhere near the moon.Sep 1, 2009
I suspect this for all the samples.
The Moon is such a spooky place. The dark side of it is even stranger. Unusually smooth and cold.
first, there is really no "dark side" of the moon, as the side we never see from earth gets plenty of sunlight. second, it is not smooth. In fact, it is significantly more cratered than the near side that we see.
Ha!
He did it this time, guys!
"...in which we LIIIIIIIIVE"
Had me worried there for a bit
These are my FAVORITE videos to close my eyes to n listen to , late at night , just trying to relax...
I’m with you, JMG 🌚 Moons like Europa, Titan and Io hold so much mystery & potential . . .
Excellent presentation on geological and planetary processes that aren’t fully understood at this point in time.
The math behind energy and everything we know is just scary when you try to understand it :O
The moon is very strange. 2160° makes a cube on Geometry. The diameter of the moon turns out to be 2160 miles.
I’m the book of revelations, the holy city when converted to miles, is describing a cube that is 1500 miles on a side. That means the holy city “coincidentally” fits perfectly inside the moon. Plus a lot of other myths and legends confirm the Ark is the Moon. “most people do not understand what the moon is saying about the state of our existence”. - Randall Carlson
This seems like one of those 'iceberg videos,' getting spookier and spookier. Very intriguing ideas I've never heard of before. Thanks for your post.
As far as the red clouds do you suppose that could be dust circulating from collapses and avalanches inside the craters? I lived in Hawaii during the 2018 eruption and when a major vent (Pu'u O'o) collapsed a large pinkish red cloud rose above the area. This came from pulverized reddish, iron rich basaltic rock. I saw this live from about 10-12 miles away.
Thank u for all your content jmg
Surprised that you didn't mention the fact that the lunar mare are found only on the side that faces Earth, and not on the side that faces away from Earth.
The far side would likely show mare if it were not more frequently impacted and cratered. Tidally locked, the near side is somewhat protected by Earth’s field of gravity.
Those far side features have Russian/Soviet names as they photographed them first.
@Michael Emory also, the since the mare are the result of ancient lava flows bubbling up to the surface abd filling in those regions, being the side tidally locked towards the Earth, and thus the Earth's gravity, might have a more direct causal effect on their formation...
Dang, John. This one’s worth watching twice, at least twice. You’re the best!
Wonderful video, quite thought-provoking!🔭🌌☄
❤❤thx man i had a hard time falling a sleep perfect timing.
YES!! Another Luna video!! I love you, John!!
People might wonder why I'm gushing about this, but I've always had a very strong fascination with barren, crater-covered worlds with little to no atmosphere. Yeah, I know. I'm probably odd for having that view, lol.
If I was truly a Starfleet captain, I'd take my ship and poke around those moons and planets that everyone else ignores because they are too "boring".
The Moon is fascinating because it's right there, an alien world we can see by just looking in the sky. And like it says in the video, who knows what we may find when we finally get to start poking around inside the craters and caves.
Luna ❤
The moon is so mysterious. Whenever I look at it I think, who built it? And where did they go?
That's no moon... It's a space station 🙀
Built it?
Also, soil samples from the Mare showed traces of Titanium. However, samples taken from the lunar highlands did not show any trace of that element.
One of my favourite channels
The best part of the moon landing is when Pres Nixon talked to them on the moon with his rotory dial landline 😅
that's called a network
I wonder what the Moon's phone number is.
1-800-LUNAR ?
Nixon was awesome.
Every time i watch your videos i really cant finish it haha. Ive be falling in deep sleep listening to you brother! Nice contents and reading voice. You've help me a lot with my insomnia.
At the outro, I thought JMG would be suspiciously eyeing the suspect Moon with great suspicion.
Or ... the moon is eyeing Earth suspiciously ...
I don’t normally re-listen to youtube videos, but when I do, it’s John Michael Godier.
Your videos are so dang relaxing. The absolute perfect thing to put on after work while uh .. partaking
That's no moon that's an abandoned space station
Still the best JM!!! Love these videos!!!
Sweet, early morning present. Good morning/day/evening/night yo from the UK 🎉
The moon is a luminary within the firmament. Genesis 1:16-19, "And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day."
It’s a giant rock in orbit around the earth. The firmament isn’t an actual thing.
It's just a story to try to explain the nature of the universe.
He did indeed, but you’re mistaken to think that “in the firmament” means within the earth’s atmosphere. We commonly say that the sun and moon are “up in the sky.” There’s nothing about the sun and moon being in outer space that contradicts the Bible.
I never forget that the sun is a star. I think about it all the time. Was thinking about it earlier this evening driving home with a beautiful hazy orange ball setting ahead.
Notification squad ftw
*out of breath* I got here as fast as I could and still lost- gang gang is hecka speedy
Woo!
Fuck the world or for the win?
Ah. I remember back when I was a child, while pondering the mysteries of geometry and perception, me and my childhood cousins were hanging out in our yard (it used to be beautiful back then! It used to be a suburban area with a huge field behind our homes... not anymore). It was a full moon night with a clear sky, warm summer night. My eldest cousin, who likes to play pranks sometimes, said that he saw / thinks there are monsters on the moon 🤣. Even as a 10 year old I knew that was him being him, but it still set my mind thinking about that possibility... what if there was life on the moon? Me being the nerd and science fan that I am, I already knew many facts about the moon, but it still left me wonder nonetheless. Even today I keep staring at the moon when it's full like some sort of creep 😆 I just keep being fascinated by it... Like, just think about it for a second. You're lucky enough to live on a planet which has a single beautiful companion!
The first video on my channel is a First Century dialog of people debating what is on the Moon (From Plutarch: Moralia). 😊. Your story reminded me of it.
Monsters are everywhere, sure there should be some on the moon as well.
He said "lunar swirls." I heard "lunar squirrels."
Quite a shock to find those furry little bastards got to the moon.
Absolutely loved this episode - fascinating!
bro, you make the most interesting content ever. greetings from Germany
Was waiting for a video on the moon! My favorite night sky body to look at since I was a kid. Always fascinated me.
I just subscribed reading the comments before even watching his first video 😅
amazing top tens here
I have a hypothesis for the Swirls, prob wrong but Ill give it a go. What if its Ice or water inside of the Lunar caves! The cave could have water vapor and be relatively insulating leading to ice only directly above the cave where as melt would darken the surrounding areas due to better thermal contact. While the Atmosphere is zero for the most part on the moon it does not need to be inside of the cave as out-gassing in some caves could almost surely overwhelm the loss leading to a very tentative atmosphere with a non-zero pressure allowing condensation. This hypothesis could be tested via careful inspection of the regions above the caves mouth possibly even via watching the regions just as they fall in and out of sunlight measuring the albedo looking for a difference between when it just comes out into the sun compared to just about to go into shade looking for vapor or lowering of the surrounding materials albedo as water melts off.
You forgot the biggest mystery of them all! that lunar samples have shown that moon rock is actually OLDER than earth rock!
What I appreciate most about your videos is your somber settling tone. Perfect for my late night sleep deprivation. Thanks for your hard work, John.
Loved it, John!
Great video! There is a lot about the moon I don't know about. Thanks for the list.
Awesome information. Thanks.
Cody's lab addressed the importance of keeping lunar polar craters pristine as it may hold an ideal record of Earth's activity stretching back a very long time. Although it may be a prime spot for a base, that activity may ruin important records. Any thoughts?
Cody's right. It's entirely possible that the moon could be a treasure trove of information about Earth's history. The ice is one aspect, and we should definitely study it before melting and drinking it, but imagine the stuff that's been blasted off earth over the eons. Sedimentary rocks with fossils, primitive materials that long ago melted or were subducted here on earth, all sorts of stuff might be there.
@@JohnMichaelGodier There is something mysterious going on in that location so NASA decided to land in a spot of no interest. Just a very boring landing of man on the Moon. Conclusion: no man ever landed on the Moon. Link: ruclips.net/video/9GcQJxZOdos/видео.html
I have and always will giddily listen right through to the end of these amazing videos, just to crack a happy smile at the "..in which we liiiiiive".
Seems like that surface charge could be a possible way to give a moon base some usable power
Install an array of towers and wire to capture and use solar wind. I've heard similar things happen with earthbound radio towers that build so much energy from the magnetic field it has to be shunted into the ground
I have been obsessed with the moon even before the 60s. I find it hard to believe other people don't share my interest 🤷.Perhaps that will change when we go back🙋
is the monolith still there? have they found out what was that about?
I'm afraid I can't tell you that, Dave.
Another banger !
One of the strangest, yet most prosaic, mysteries of the Moon is that the ratio between the Moon's size and distance, and that of the Sun, is so close to being 1:1 so as to allow us to view the Sun's corona during total eclipses.
@gerryjamesedwards1227: That won't be possible in the future as the moon is slowly moving away from the Earth (about 1cm per year) so the view will change. The Apollo 11 astronauts left laser reflectors on the moon so its possible to measure the exact distance it is from the Earth.
9:56 why does that look so much like an open cut mine
Top 10 mysteries of Uranus
Fascinating stuff indeed! Thanks, John! 😃
They should put some rovers at the Moon as well!
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
this is my favorite channel (:
What is your second favorite
@@kylec171 that would have to be Rm Brown, he is definitely political and adult themed but absolutely cracks me up.
what are your favorites?
I believe the failed mission (Apollo) was the first attempt to go to the moon( the one in which we failed) and prior to the Apollo we had never landed on the surface of the moon.Prior to the Apollo we staged the first moon landing securing our names in the space race .We have never been back to the moon because we know trouble awaits us with booby traps from other intelligent beings.
You know Apollos 11 and 12 landed on the Moon *_BEFORE_* Apollo 13 failed to, right ?
13 is a bigger number than 11 or 12.
Hi John, thank you for the upload. Always fascinating as usual 👍❤️🏴
Great video John. The moon imagery you added is awesome!
We know that one world has been personally visited by an alien.
❤❤❤❤thank you Michael😘🙏
It still seems literally unbelievable that we’ve been there
A Cold War story. IF the U.S. had faked it all, the U.S.S.R. (the enemy) would have called it. They never did.
NASA says it has moonrock brought back by Apollo crews, incontrovertible proof they went there. But when l consider the moon missions in detail l struggle to understand how Apollo happened. Unbelievable as you say.
@@leonardgibney2997 When I consider everything that goes into my almost daily facetime conversations I have with my friend who lives on the opposite side of the planet, I struggle to understand how it's possible. Unbelievable, as you said.
And yet, here we are...
You had me at magnetic anomalies on the moon...
That'll be the monolith.
thanks once again john for the great education + sleep help. pass my regards to anna and the opossum.
I can imagine that the irregularity of surface swirls could be due to effects of subsurface structure upon shockwave focus. That shock from large antipodal impacts. Previously unexposed particles are disrupted in accumulation areas, mares and valleys between ridges and rims. Don’t know if the word ‘patina’ applies to long surface exposure to solar wind.
One of my favorite ‘lunar posers’ is based on orbit dynamics…. Moon’s orbit around Earth always concave in relation to Earth. Earth to Sun is the same, concave. Moon to Sun is concave while it circles Earth…. How so? Frequencies.
I watched a blood red moon rise out of the Atlantic Ocean one night last year. It slowly went to orange then completely white. I have never seen anything like it before.
You saw a lunar eclipse
I was just looking you to see if I had anything good to watch tonight
Good Morrow and happy Monday JMG, I hope this comment finds you happy healthy and hearty!
I just really would like to say I appreciate your videos, and I am grateful for them. So thank you! I am at the lunar cloud portion of the video and it reminded me of a question that I have tried to find a satisfactory answer via google and other mediums, and I don’t get a clear answer. However I think you would be the perfect person to ask. So, why doesn’t IO the Jonovan moon have an atmosphere????
It's got a thin one, mostly sulfur dioxide from the volcanism. It can't hold on to much else though, too small.
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Lunar squirrels... gotta watch out for them next moon mission.
That video of the high speed lava flow is mesmerizing.
If you want more, the USGS has a treasure trove of public domain volcano videos. I've been going through it for footage and it's just amazing:
www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/multimedia/videos
I always thought the Moon swirls were dark and that they were caused by electromagnetic forces like the sparking type of situation on the moon that occurs and behaves somewhat like iron filings with a magnet. Probably just imagined that sometime in the past. Thanks for being there for us, you're awesome!
Lava tubes? Im thinking perhaps a shard of the void dragon.