De acordo com USENET: Ceres Solution, por Bob Shaw
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If you are an old hand a science fiction, there's a good chance that you've heard the theory or read a story that put forward the theory, that our large moon is the reason for development of intelligent life on Earth. If you've read any number of essays by Asimov, larger than two, chances are you have heard about it. In The Ceres Solution Shaw puts forward the opposite possibility, namely that the moon is the reason why earth is in such a bad state.