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Wow, didn’t see this transfer coming

This is pretty good. USA currently has some assistant coaches up there recruiting. I predict Moon will sign with Team USA, or Duke with Kara L coaching both. 😁
 
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The moon would be a decent addition, even though it tends to fade during afternoon games. However, given UConn's need for rebounding, I would go for the cow instead.

A real jumper, that cow.

A tour of the campus should seal the deal.
 
I'm not sorry to see Moon go. Let's face, s/he was always just a hanger on. Sure, there were the tides and being the object of many a love lorn poet or song writer, but face it, beyond that veneer of a happy go lucky celestial pal to Earth there is the real Moon. No atmosphere, weak gravity, a lifeless, dusty and dead rock, revolving around and sponging off their rich relative. So if that ingrate of a companion thinks the grass is greener in Jovian or Saturnalian orbits, well don't let the door hit your dark side on the way out.
 
Huskee11 said:
The moon would be a decent addition, even though it tends to fade during afternoon games. However, given UConn's need for rebounding, I would go for the cow instead.

A real jumper, that cow.

A tour of the campus should seal the deal.
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Yes, and shmooze with all the other UConn cows.
 
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The Moon's situation was typical of a lot of HS players.
Her Orbit of family and friends filled her head about her sky high potential.
Coaches talked about her, out of this world talent.
However, when she got to school, she couldn't crack the rotation.
The gravity of not meeting expectations, sent her to the dark side.
Her friends tried to help, "Why are you blue Moon?" they would ask. To no avail.
Her coaches explained to her that they only saw the full Moon effort, a few days a month.
They explained to her to get a ring like her cousin Saturn, they needed to see more.
But being a new Moon, she needed to go somewhere else.
Hence, the Portal.
 
huskyd said:
Dare I say that both sides of the moon look (predictably) the same?
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Actually, they don't. The far side (NOT the dark side) is much more pockmarked. It didn't sink in immediately and it became obvious. The moon gets hit by a lot of meteors, but those headed toward the near side of the moon are coming at an angle that means many of them have to miss the earth. Some don't miss the earth and are intercepted before they can hit the moon. Those headed at the far side have clear sailing so to speak.
 
The Moon’s two faces don’t match, and we think we know why
Oops, it turns out that my explanation is the obvious explanation with a tiny problem — it's wrong.


"The “obvious” explanation would be that when these massive space rocks head toward the Moon from the far side, there’s nothing at all getting in the way, and every object that would strike it absolutely does. But when you approach the Moon from the near side, the Earth is in the way, and we can act as a shield for objects that would otherwise impact the Moon’s near side. In doing so, the Earth could either absorb those impacts or gravitationally deflect those potential impactors away from the Moon."

"That’s the obvious explanation."
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"It’s a nice attempt at making sense of what we see, but the fact that the Earth-Moon distance is some forty times larger than the diameter of the Earth means that the difference in the number of impacts on the near side of the Moon from the far side ought to be less than 1% when we run the numbers. And that’s simply not the case; the far side is something like ~30% more heavily cratered than the near side, a tremendous difference that cannot be quantitatively explained by this gravitational deflection effect."
 
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