No there isn’t. The Moon’s gravity is very lumpy and there are very few stable orbits. It’s extremely unlikely anything passive will orbit the moon more than a couple weeks. This is stupid clickbait.
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This issue is explained in quite a lot of detail in the video. There do exist some stable orbits despite the lumpiness, and it’s possible to simulate the orbit (stable or not) of any given object given its initial parameters. Guess what was the starting point for the analysis they did in the video?
this is not serious enough for the mod shield, but my god stop misusing the word clickbait and stop being confidently incorrect. some of you literally just use this to mean "thing i don't like" or even "thing that explains itself in a way that is not my fancy"--neither of which is what the word actually means.
I actually changed the title to make sure that it wouldn't be clickbait, by modifying the question to become instead the answer to the question.
An important part of media literacy is understanding sources and context. This YouTube creator is anything but clickbait on the topic of orbital mechanics.
I actually do know Scott’s stuff very well and respect him alot, ever since his KSP days. But this title is still pretty click baity, and I’m rather disappointed that he along with a lot of other good YouTubers all have been increasing the baity titles along with the Face + outrageous background thumbnail thing lately just to work the algorithm.
There is bad clickbait out there and we do have to remain skeptical. So much is actively harmful.
To dismiss good content because it seeks an audience is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Indeed, by dismissing higher quality content as clickbait you can unintentionally elevate the true clickbait by putting them on the same level. I'm sure you don't intend this.
Headlines, titles, thumbs don't really matter if the content is valuable. This video really was pretty good! I'd rather 14 y/o nerds or whoever watch this than some SpaceX worship or whatever other similar junk might be out there.
You’re absolutely right, I couldn’t agree with you more. My bad on “judging a book by its cover”.
I probably should tone down the old curmudgeon stuff. I’d just recently realized how much I missed very good content by Mentour Pilot just because his titles and thumbnails were also very YouTube algorithm-y, but his content is fantastic. Just need to accept this is how good content avoids being buried under all the brainrot junk.
Thanks for the reminder, cheers.