The Moon: Earth's Celestial Cousin 

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Shout out to Phobos and Deimos, the best upstart pebbles there ever were

One night back in the late 1980s there was a huge brush fire close to where I lived in Winters, California. I was coming home from church, and noticed that the reddish full Moon was hanging seemingly all by itself in the sky; there was so much smoke in the air that none of the stars or planets were visible. It was one of the eeriest sights I've ever seen in many years of amateur astronomy.

If I've calculated correctly, in the 250,000 years that Homo sapiens or our nearest forebears have existed, the moon has moved about 9.5 KM further away from earth. That's not even noticeable from our standpoint. The sun will go Red Giant and engulf the entire solar system before the moon moves far enough away for it to really matter. I have to give credit to the script writer. Phrases like "the greatest astronomer name-checked in a Queen song" and "planet-wide dong-measuring contest known as the space race" aren't easy to come by.

“Unless you count the 1989 British Expedition code named ‘A Grand Day Out’, Humanity still hasn’t been back” A man of Culture.

Your writer deserves a big high five! That was quality writing.

I was hoping you'd recall the exploits of the great British moonwalkers Wallace and Gromit!

Love these videos, I’m a machinist and work 10-12 hour days and these videos help keep me entertained during long cycle times. If I didn’t have the attention span of a goldfish and could actually remember all these I would be a genius

I really enjoy your astronomy videos, would love to more of the other planets and moons of planets. Pangea or 7 supercontinents would also be a interesting topic

That's no moon...oh wait, it is.

“The secret British mission in 1989 known as The Grand Day Out” I got the reference lol

So, since the moon is not a geographic location, does that mean you should start a channel called Astrographics?

Yes finally, our video on our own celestial cousin! Gotta love these outer space videos, they're the best. Thanks Simon and the team for all your work

I found out recently that one of my coworkers is a big Simon fan. If you can see this - Hi Gage!!!

Wonderful video! I admit I am Extremely Excited about this renewed interest in moon exploration and building habitats. It's such an enormous springboard for our transition from planet-bound creatures to space-faring beings. I grew up with a lot of sci fi stories just kind of "around" - not just having books by authors like Heinlein and Clarke, but my parents and their friends frequently discussed those books and the ideas that underpinned them. Imagining what it might take to get there, what it might be like living on the surface of another world. Burroughs' Barsoom novels, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars, were big favorites with all the grownups too, and I would listen in complete fascination as they debated whether a Moon base was really required before a Mars colony or not. I was too little to understand most of the math, and definitely too young to understand the political and social stuff - but I was fascinated nonetheless. Even when I discovered other, much more fantastical stories involving humans in space (McCaffrey's Pern, and her Talent series, were a big deal for me), I never entirely forgot the older notions. Even contemplating that in MY lifetime, humans might have stations like those in Antarctica, but on the Moon's surface? Absolutely the most incredible thing that could happen. I wasn't even born yet, when Armstrong stepped onto the lunar regolith. To see people return - and stay - there just aren't words to describe the way that prospect makes my heart swell.

I really enjoy these astronomy videos and the disease/epidemic videos on Biographics. It gives the channels a nice exploration of something a little different each time

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Just the facts ma'am 6:25 - Chapter 2 - Gods & monsters 9:20 - Mid roll ads 10:55 - Chapter 3 - Whispering lunar incantations 15:00 - Chapter 4 - Giant steps are what you take 19:30 - Chapter 5 - A lunar odyssey - Chapter 6 -

Operation grand day out = greatest Moon mission ever

Should definitely do a video on the UK's A Grand Day Out on one of your channels Simon! Big Fan btw.

Whoever nasa sends should be most qualified, despite the color of their skin. The skin color doesn't matter. Continuing our understanding of the universe is a win for all humanity.

I do a paper round really early in the morning. If its dark enough, the moon is bright enough and the clouds are just right, it can create a rainbow ring around it. This is normally quite nice to look at while walking on autopilot.

Ahh, Wren. "Pay us money to not feel guilty."

Love this one Simon, thank you for making it!

unlike other astronomy and science channels, i really appreciate the poetic and human interest aspects of your scripts.

I really love the space Geographics

Simon's description throughout the entire section about the space race was hysterical

Becoming a Bloodborne lore channel, Vaati has a competitor in the game now!

That was the slickest Wallace and Gromit reference I have ever seen

Got to love the Clangers reference. That and two of my favourite channels run in moon-related videos close together (Kurzgesagt, if you’re curious)

Beginning my day with knowledge. This one gave me chills as well as a yearning to know more.

Okay, everybody keeps talking about references being made in this video’s script, but why is nobody else drawing attention to the use of the phrase “stone ocean” very early on? Although, by now I’m very aware that there are definitely JoJo fans on Simon’s team…

Kudos for the reference to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy at around 0:50. And at 13:40, Clangers. 19:00 Wallace and Grommit. What gives?

Fun fact: just like all other moons in the solar system, our Moon has a name too. Luna

That's no Space Station...

Particularly outstanding, Simon! I enjoyed your dramatic and tasteful presentation of these existential issues of humanity - a detour outside your usual tone. Thank you!

Just four years after the first moon landing, Britain sent some rabbits to the moon, followed by a couple of blokes to check out what happened. There followed the greatly hushed-up "Invasion of the Moon Creatures". Somehow, under a government alien protection program, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Graeme Garden became common or garden variety comedians.

Your scriptwriter is on another level.

Point of correction needs to be made here. Earth hasn't existed since the dawn of time. The universe was nearly nine billion years old when Earth first formed.

The delivery of 'star-spangled butt' was glorious 🤣🤣🤣

"We may soon be going back, to finish what we started. To build the shining lunar cities, that Galileo failed to spot through his telescope, all those centuries ago." I felt that

The best phrase in this wholly awesome video is "When to plant the children."

Nice on that Wallace and Gromit reference! 👏👏🌑🌓😂 Already knew a thing or 2 about the moon. Like reflective cheese in the water. 😁

The Earth and The Moon together till the end 💕

That episode when Simon whitewashes the fact the in 1969, two American Officers invaded the Moon, and then departed about 24 hours later, leaving no survivors in their wake.

I’ve now had an entire conversation regarding Simon’s suitability as the next Doctor Who.

Nice Wallace and Gromit reference. 😂😂😂

"A Grand Day Out" discovered that the moon is indeedmade of cheese, tastes like Wensleydale too... :P

Simon: "1.2 billion years BC." On such a timescale, does the extra two thousand years really make any difference? [] I'm old enough to remember the moon landings: what got me even then was that the astronauts were picked up by the rescue boat, taken aboard the ship, and THEN put into quarantine: if there'd been any lunar lurgy it had already had time to escape. [] How is the Chinese Rover sending back data if it's on the far side? unless there's an orbital component to pick up the signals and transmit them back to earth. [] The moon may have played a very significant role in the emergence of land-based life - apart from its stabilising influence. I don't how how much closer it would have been when life first crawled out of the ocean, but the tides it caused must have been tremendous, leaving tidal beaches where marine life could gradually adapt to a semi-dry environment before moving out of the tidal range and on to a fully land-based existence. Without the moon, would there have been land-based life on earth at all? I know there are solar tides, but would they have been strong enough to make a difference?

Is it just me, or does someone else picture Simon as the next Dr. Who, peeking out of the TARDIS, asking where are all the aliens?

It is an obscure fact that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first in history to do the moonwalk.

When I was a kid I assumed that by the 2000s we would have day trips to the moon.

I hope someone from the Moroccan Royal Family is watching this

I like how this episode is 23:59

This is why I love the alternate history show, ‘For All Mankind’

Great work as always Simon..

Our beloved Moon. A silvery white orb hanging in the sky. It will be with us for as long as it can. Let's just make sure that Tim Robbins doesn't blow it up before we build a colony up there😁

One of the best physics books I've read about the moon was 'What if the Earth had no moon?' By Neil F Comins. One of the best writting astrophysicist.

That wedding analogy was some of your best writing ever.

Well done, Morris M.! Well read, Simon! 🏆

Celestial cousins with the same parents... yup, sounds about right

1989 Secret British Expedition.... to the moon. Oh my God Simon. It took me a full 3 minutes to stop and wonder if there was a moon landing.. oh. That's right. 🧀 we'll go somewhere where there's cheese. Sincerely and truly, made my whole week good sir.

Love all your channels. You do a great job and I appreciate all the content and hard work that goes with it

Not to be pedantic but a video about the moon or any other heavenly makes Geographics a misnomer, Maybe it's time to start a new channel called Astronomics along with Astrologics.😁

I thought Wren was a kitchen design studio?

I dont have carbon feet so am all good. No carbon footprint here.

I really liked the poetic side to this video, Simon.

Wallace and Gromit unequivocally proving the 🌙 moon is made of Wensleydale 🧀 cheese 😂

That 3.5 cm /year is not fixed as the Moon gets farther away the slower it gets as what is happening is the Moon is getting a gravity assisted speed push from the Earth so the farther away the moon gets the push gets smaller.

You got me with the Wallace and Gromit bit

September 13th, 1999: Never Forget

🎵🎶”We’re whalers on the moon! We carry a harpoon! But there are no whales, so we tell tall tales! And we sing a whaling toon!”

or the moon will crash into one of earth's neighbouring planets, sending asteroids streaming our way.

Clementine was not a NASA program. It was a collaboration between the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory

if you can get this dude to say "fire power" its the best

"Taking pictures of weird square moon rocks" I didn't realize this is why the moon has square rocks in super mario odyssey...

Left out the part about the moon's contribution to the Earth's iron core. Probably it's most significant interaction

Love the channel! But would die for an astronomy only channel

Great video! Thanks!

"Time to plant the children" F-ing brilliant. 😆

The Apollo 11 quarantine module is free to see at the Dulles Annex of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Super cool.

*Moroccan Royal Family watching this* “I don’t get his point.”

Why have unity and excellence when you can have the diversity and inclusion that have given us mediocrity, riots, discord, maliciousness, heat, and division. Dr. King would be so proud

"Planet-wide Dong Measuring Contest" should become an Olympic event

Good video 👍

It's interesting to think that today marks the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 14 landing.

Haven't watched a Simon whistler video in ages! The beard has grown, nice!

The "digital watch" reference made me smile.

Got ready to settle in and watch a nice Geographics and you side-swipe me with "digital watches". You bastard.

Everybody now waiting for a new project called "Astronomics".

Some theorists probably think this video belongs on Megaprojects

5:47, is that a JoJo reference, Simon?

GRAND DAY OUT... Top secret British moon mission... This is why I love your content Simon

It is *infinitely* cool that your Douglas Adams reference begins at 0:42 :D Good job guys, i hope that was just a happy accident

Dong measuring contest. That is a great statement. And oh so accurate.

Did he just make a Wallace and grommet joke 😅🤣

19:08 ugh I googled "1989 a grand day out" to understand what this meant. I'm such a dufus

Digital Watches. Nice Douglas Adams reference

Please do a Maya Angelou segment on Biographics.

Hey, if you're still in a space mood, NASA has announced that the ISS would be closed by the end of the decade. Dunno if you'd prefer waiting a bit to see what happens with it in the future or if now would be a good time to make a video about it, then revisit it in the future when it's decomissioned.

Moon Cooties would be a great band name.