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It takes a certain amount of courage to step beyond one's day-to-day tests and appearance at the picture as a whole - and the origin of the Moon is a major picture question par brilliance. Perhaps it seems sensible that William Hartmann, one of both scientists who unraveled the Moon's biggest mystery, isn't just a scientist but also a part-time artist and technology fiction article writer. It needed someone with an artist's attention and a fiction writer's speculative temperament to start to see the big picture. That is a book about that big picture: the origin of the Moon, as interpreted by Hartmann and Alastair Cameron, the second patriarch of The Big Splat. It is also about a doomed planet called Theia, and a familiar one called Earth which used to look significantly not the same as today's Earth. But, the majority of all, it is approximately a long lineage of intellectual voyagers who commenced checking out the Moon a long time before Neil Armstrong planted his boot in to the lunar dust.NOTE: Some editorial changes to the original wording have been made with the author's approval.
