# The Moon has a hole in it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560 "2009-11-22T20:25:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/1 "2009-11-22T20:25:15Z")
[http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/highlights/highlights.cgi?action=show&doi=10.1029/2009GL040635&jc=gl](http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/highlights/highlights.cgi?action=show&doi=10.1029/2009GL040635&jc=gl) [Picture.](http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq345/NellaSelim/holeintheMoon.jpg) No, it’s not a crater-apparently it’s a lava tube which collapsed. Oddly the Apollo program was going to go there, until the last few missions got canceled. You may now commence with the MPSIMS type silliness. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/2 "2009-11-22T20:50:25Z")
Clearly, it’s the ejection port for Little David’s Sling. Right, Mannie? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/3 "2009-11-22T21:00:14Z")
Noticed an increase in large meteors lately? “Throw rocks at 'em!” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/4 "2009-11-22T21:05:05Z")
I may be the world’s biggest skeptic, but the picture looks like a fly speck on the camera lens, to me. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/5 "2009-11-22T21:15:59Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > I may be the world’s biggest skeptic, but the picture looks like a fly speck on the camera lens, to me. Or someone hung up the picture with a thumbtack. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/6 "2009-11-22T21:18:00Z")
Thats a deep hole into some kind of void for sure. Look at all the other craters. If the sunlight is hitting that area at a 45 degree angle to the surface that hole is at a minimum as deep as it it is wide. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/7 "2009-11-22T21:41:20Z")
All right, **Skald** –what did you do? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/8 "2009-11-22T22:29:03Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Clearly, it’s the ejection port for Little David’s Sling. Right, Mannie? one of my favorite SF reads when I am depressed. I want to live on nthe moon =( ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/9 "2009-11-22T22:34:27Z")
That was a remnant of Chairface Chippendale’s first test of his Lunar Laser Device, SPOOOOON! ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/10 "2009-11-22T22:42:10Z")
When I saw this thread, my first thought was of the recent kinetic missile aimed at the moon. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/11 "2009-11-22T23:37:36Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Noticed an increase in large meteors lately? “Throw rocks at 'em!” _“Ja, da, cobber! Throw BIG rocks!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/12 "2009-11-22T23:54:05Z")
That hole is much bigger than a womp rat. Should be easy to hit. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/13 "2009-11-23T00:12:00Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > one of my favorite SF reads when I am depressed. I want to live on nthe moon =( IN the moon, tovarich. In the moon. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/14 "2009-11-23T00:18:43Z")
There’s a hole? Gentlemen, Be Seated! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/15 "2009-11-23T00:26:22Z")
Ralph Kramden finally followed through. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/16 "2009-11-23T00:56:10Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > There’s a hole? > > Gentlemen, Be Seated! _snicker_ Amazing how much lit there is about the moon, and how familiar it is =) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/17 "2009-11-23T01:11:31Z")
Nothing ever happens on the Moon. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/18 "2009-11-23T02:18:23Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > _snicker_ > > Amazing how much lit there is about the moon, and how familiar it is =) Many of us can tell a hack from a Harshaw! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/19 "2009-11-23T02:34:24Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Clearly, it’s the ejection port for Little David’s Sling. Really? I was thinking it was [Alice’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeymooners#Alice_Kramden)entrance hole. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560/20 "2009-11-23T02:41:06Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Really? I was thinking it was [Alice’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeymooners#Alice_Kramden)entrance hole. That’s why Ralph Kramden followed through; see **runner pat** ’s post. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-has-a-hole-in-it/518560.md?page=2)