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Subject: more bad information from DE

Author:
sci guy

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Date Posted: 15:46:16 10/11/07 Thu
In reply to: DE 's message, "MY BAD!!!!!" on 10:20:57 10/09/07 Tue

actually, you have a 50% chance of not having a moon in your night sky.... The reason it's receding from us is something we call tidal drag, which is why the moon rotates on it's axis in such a way as to keep the far side hidden from us....

As time goes on, the moon is slowly but surely affecting us in the same manner, with the ultimate result that the moon and Earth will be locked in a mutual orbit with one face of the earth constantly facing the moon.

Tides will STILL occur, however, since the sun ALSO has an effect on tidal heights (that's why there are variations over the course of the month....) while the tide heights might not be as extreme as they are now, they will still occur. Crabs and turtles will continue to reproduce... assuming that they haven't been killed off by man in the meantime.

>THATS RIGHT....
>
>I remember now, the commentator was saying that in our
>distant future there will not be a moon in our night
>sky.
>
>IF it pulled away and flew off there would not be moon.
>
>AND IF there is still some water left in the oceans
>then the tides obviously would be very badly impacted.
>
>Sea turtles could not lay their eggs as they do today
>on high tides. Horseshoe crabs could not come ashore
>at high tides to do their thing.
>
>And queenie sci could not walk down the beach
>romanticly holding the connecting rod of his freshly
>polished firetruck bumper :0
>
>
>Later
>
>DE

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Can you hear...	DE	17:37:21 10/11/07 Thu