The Moon Cube

Here it is, a much more resemblance to the 2001 Monolith: than any of us would have imagined feasible in A Space Odyssey. A massive square boulder was seen in a photograph taken on December 3, 2021, by the Chinese lunar rover Yutu 2, which was on a mission to explore the South Pole of the "Dark Side of the Moon."

The rover had just discovered a moon stalagmite and other boulders that had fused together. It was initially referred to as the "mystery cottage" by China's National Space Administration. Because it was taken seriously enough, the rover controllers altered the course. We're not talking about a leisurely vacation here. Darwin was especially troubled by this issue since it seemed to go against his beliefs and because some of his detractors were using it to argue for "divine intervention."

In his latter years, Darwin proposed the hypothesis that angiosperms may have originated on an undiscovered island or even a continent, where they may have evolved for millions of years before spreading to other parts of the planet and becoming part of the fossil record that was then known.