Not following your train of thought here Rearden.
I don't find it laughable that someone might think that the moon would have the stronger pull as TGreg implied -- with the effect of the moon on the tides, that's not a really hard mistake to make.
What I found just hysterical is that TG brags about his genius IQ and then finds himself dumber than a "libtard".
ROFLAO!!
JB
I don't find it laughable that someone might think that the moon would have the stronger pull as TGreg implied -- with the effect of the moon on the tides, that's not a really hard mistake to make.
What I found just hysterical is that TG brags about his genius IQ and then finds himself dumber than a "libtard".
ROFLAO!!
JB
Quote from Rearden Metal:
There's a reason why such a notion is actually NOT laughably ridiculous: Most people are not aware of the fact that Earth's precisely stable axis is a rare thing for a planet to have, and is entirely credited to the moon's pull. Earth's North & South Poles were in the exact same spot 10,000 years ago, and will remain in the exact same spot 10,000 years in the future... because of the moon.
If not for our moon, earth's axis would 'wobble' like the axis of most planets, meaning that the Bahamas or New York City could easily become the South Pole/coldest spot on earth, were the planet to wobble in that direction. The entire reason why the North & South Poles aren't bitterly cold one century and tropical the next is because of the significantly stabilizing pull of the moon.