Earth's Creation In The Film: Earth Is Born

In the film segment “Earth is born,” shown in class several things were discussed throughout the film. The film initially began with the narrator Neil DeGrasse Tyson, speaking about the Earth in terms of it being a clock. Each time on the clock represented the millions and billions of years that were the Earths initial development. Within the film one of the many factors that were discussed the contributed to Earth’s initial creation and causing it to be the planet we, as a life form, can inhabit was the moon and its creation. The moon was formed from parts of the earth as it was initially a spherical small object floating through space that had not initially been pulled in to any other planets gravitational pull yet. That is until it was pulled into what would eventually become the Earth. The was formed

Especially as there is practically no evidence left on the Earth from when it was initially created. Most of the evidence, long gone due to the Earths extremely rocky start though constant meteoric attacks, different life inhabitants, etc. The fact that the moon is essentially a fingerprint of the Earth holds many answers to the mystery and allows science to further go in depth to what things were like for planet Earth billions of years ago. It has been found that the creation of the moon itself was caused by high impact into the planet, the moon has also been determined to be moving further and further away from the Earth which slows down the Earth’s rotation, and lastly that because of the moon the Earth has stable seasons which prevents the planet from either being a big burning wreck which is inhabitable to humanity, or a giant ice ball which is also inhabitable to humanity. All in all, as discovered in the film “Origins, fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution: Earth is Born” the moon is a necessary part of our planet and one of the many keys to unlocking its many