Science Fiction becomes Science Fact?
Isaac Asimov made a central theme to his Foundation series the unique nature of Earth's single, large satellite. Roughly, the theory in the books put forward that radioactive deposits in Earth's crust combined with the Moon's affect on the oceans did speed up the evolution process to a greater extent than the rest of the known universe...
Oh noes! I shall shurely burn in hell now ;)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
