THANKS to Mark MacDiarmid for alerting us to the existence of a very silly book. Who Built The Moon? is by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler. The blurb reveals that: “The Moon has confounded scientists for many years. It does not obey the known rules of astrophysics and there is no coherent theory of its origin – in fact, it should not be there…many specialists suspect that the Moon is hollow, which should not be possible…When all of the facts are dispassionately reviewed it becomes unreasonable to cling to the idea that the Moon is a natural object.”…
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