Interesting video by NASA demonstrating large-impact theory as predicted by a supercomputer. Funny, I just saw this yesterday and today you post about the moon’s creation!
I liked how you took the original topic and brought it back to your newsletter topics. To your question: I think our creativity is influenced by what’s in our orbit, and we need to make sure we have productive spaces and people in our orbit to fuel the continuous fission reaction that is creativity ⭐️
A great issue - one of my favourites so far! I'm a BIG space/astronomy fan and read everything I can about it - though the topics are rarely so close to home. It's a great mystery re the formation of the moon (I tend to go with the collision/broken bits of Earth one) and you've done a great job working through them. I also like the metaphors at the end - and any reference to KIng's ON WRITING gets a thumbs up from me! Really enjoyable!
Great newsletter! One natural world analogy for the creative process is hibernation - sometimes we stop creating (reasons vary), and enter a sort of dormant period of rest. Unlike bears, we may be busy with other things in our life and not sleeping (darn it). Anyhow, at some point we awaken from our creative break feeling fresh and ready to create again. Getting started might take a bit of work, but once we start to fatten up from the process we're off and running again.
Nice! We’re just talking about this in class -- I think accretion was the default idea for a long time, but it was so puzzling that the Moon had a very different composition from Earth (iron-poor). If it accreted like the Earth, it should be made of the same stuff! Impact started to make sense because by the time of the collision, most of the iron in the molten Earth sunk to the core, so only the outer rocky stuff splashed up to form the Moon. Anyway, you might know all this already, but piecing together clues to solve a mystery is irresistible fun... 😊
You already know I'm biased and much in favor of this post, Mark
Yes, agree with you on footnote #2 :D and it astounding how we stuck to one day for the "moon" and "sun" after years playing around with what to call them! I like the metaphors of artistic creation based on all the competing theories of the moon's creation. Maybe we should never find out what happened, just too much fun playing with the ideas in other spaces. :)
Interesting video by NASA demonstrating large-impact theory as predicted by a supercomputer. Funny, I just saw this yesterday and today you post about the moon’s creation!
https://youtu.be/kRlhlCWplqk
I liked how you took the original topic and brought it back to your newsletter topics. To your question: I think our creativity is influenced by what’s in our orbit, and we need to make sure we have productive spaces and people in our orbit to fuel the continuous fission reaction that is creativity ⭐️
Nice. I'm currently experimenting with accretion and Giant-Impact in my own way.
A great issue - one of my favourites so far! I'm a BIG space/astronomy fan and read everything I can about it - though the topics are rarely so close to home. It's a great mystery re the formation of the moon (I tend to go with the collision/broken bits of Earth one) and you've done a great job working through them. I also like the metaphors at the end - and any reference to KIng's ON WRITING gets a thumbs up from me! Really enjoyable!
Great newsletter! One natural world analogy for the creative process is hibernation - sometimes we stop creating (reasons vary), and enter a sort of dormant period of rest. Unlike bears, we may be busy with other things in our life and not sleeping (darn it). Anyhow, at some point we awaken from our creative break feeling fresh and ready to create again. Getting started might take a bit of work, but once we start to fatten up from the process we're off and running again.
This was super interesting for me because I know nothing about astronomy. Thanks for explaining it so clearly!
I'm a big solar system nerd so I thoroughly enjoyed this post. Thank you.
Nice! We’re just talking about this in class -- I think accretion was the default idea for a long time, but it was so puzzling that the Moon had a very different composition from Earth (iron-poor). If it accreted like the Earth, it should be made of the same stuff! Impact started to make sense because by the time of the collision, most of the iron in the molten Earth sunk to the core, so only the outer rocky stuff splashed up to form the Moon. Anyway, you might know all this already, but piecing together clues to solve a mystery is irresistible fun... 😊
You already know I'm biased and much in favor of this post, Mark
Yes, agree with you on footnote #2 :D and it astounding how we stuck to one day for the "moon" and "sun" after years playing around with what to call them! I like the metaphors of artistic creation based on all the competing theories of the moon's creation. Maybe we should never find out what happened, just too much fun playing with the ideas in other spaces. :)