space rocks and stuff

So for this week I read a post off the blog Bad Astronomy titled, bouncing rocks. Although not super historical, I found this quite fascinating from a geological standpoint. The blog goes on to show pictures taken from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of of rocks being dislodged and bouncing down a lunar slope, leaving massive scars in the earth in their wake. Typically when looking at geological events such as this, the time it takes for things to transpire is measured in millions of years which is so very different from what historians are used to analyzing. I mean the entirety of human existence is merely a minuscule blip on earth's timeline, so being able to witness an event like this is actually quite rare. I don't know, maybe I'm just a nerd, but i thought it was kinda cool that an event like this was able to be witnessed, who knows it may be another 1000 years before something like this is witnessed again.

Sam Out