{"id":2957,"date":"2010-08-24T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/24\/the-ravages-of-age-or-just-loony-tunes\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T21:25:59","slug":"the-ravages-of-age-or-just-loony-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/24\/the-ravages-of-age-or-just-loony-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"The ravages of age, or just loony tunes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we age, we get smaller, we get wrinkles, and we get shaky. So, apparently, does the moon, as lunar scientists say that a Shrinking moon may explain lunar quakes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and colleagues say the wrinkles likely formed as the moon cooled and contracted.<\/p>\n

The features are surprisingly recent, having formed no more than 1 billion years ago. That estimate is based on the fact that they partly destroyed some pre-existing small craters that seem to be no more than 1 billion years old. “The moon may still be geologically and tectonically active and still shrinking today,” Watters said in a teleconference with reporters on Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a nice way to say it. The next time someone points out that I don’t look as young as I used to, I’ll just say, “That’s because I’m still tectonically active.”<\/p>\n

That’s a continental plate on top of my head.  It only LOOKS like the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n

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