It's not our Moon anymore (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, October 13, 2014, 10:42 (3938 days ago) @ Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

I was patrolling the Moon today, looking at the beautiful skybox, with its satellites and shootings stars, when I stopped to think to myself... how does that actually work?

The Moon clearly has some sort of atmosphere now. We can hear gunfire, capes swirl, water remains liquid in areas not sealed off from the surface. So shooting stars are far more explainable than the massive uptick in gravity.

But it's still preposterous. For there to be an atmosphere the traveler would have to:

1. Somehow cause the moon to become geologically active and restart core dynamo giving rise to a strong magnetic field. Without this, solar wind would strip away any atmosphere.
2. Physically put atmospheric gasses onto the moon.