If The Moon Was Made Of Cheese

Not to mention the added weight of the cheese to haul it back to earth.

Of all the stories we pass on from generation to generation one of the most persistent is that the moon is made of cheese. The moon is approximately 4 530 million years old. Also about cheese and moon 275for centuries people thought the moon was made of green cheese. The moon is made of green cheese is a statement referring to a fanciful belief that the moon is composed of cheese.

Only the super rich could even afford it. If the moon was made of cheese we could easily solve world hunger. For starters the moon would expand out more than 500 miles in. There s actually some fascinating things that would happen if our moon was made of cheese and it wouldn t be all that tasty.

The earliest record of this bizarre. The author was saying that someone was trying to trick him into something not specifically that the moon was made of green cheese. But the saying stuck and the moon is made of green cheese became one of the most popular proverbs in english literature from the 1500s and 1600s. Besides if we start mining the moon who s to say what the climate effects would be.

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The idea is a very old one dating back at least as far as 1546 to the proverbs of john heywood which carries the line the moon is made of a greene cheese. To all the people who believe the moon is made of cheese here s something to really convince you that it s not. Since they re not it s safe to conclude there s no cheese on the moon. This probably would have caused the moon to crumble into nothing a few centuries after its mysterious formation.

Then the astronauts found that the moon is really a big hard rock. In its original formulation as a proverb and metaphor for credulity with roots in fable this refers to the perception of a simpleton who sees a reflection of the moon in water and mistakes it for a round cheese wheel. If the moon were made of cheese the space force would be on the moon in a second to mine the cheese. Though the idea that the moon is made of cheese has been around for millennia it s doubtful that anyone ever actually believed it at least not academically.

In 1638 english philosopher john wilkins said you may soon persuade some country peasants that the moon is made of greene cheese as we say.