Is the moon necessary for life?
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
As I understand it, the moon stabilises the Earth's tilt. So, if it wasn't there, the seasons would be drastically affected.
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Migratory animals would fly in the wrong direction and die.
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
Only if the Moon was suddenly removed right now, if it had never of been there those animals would have never evolved to depend on the Moon.Deep Sea Isopod wrote:Migratory animals would fly in the wrong direction and die.
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
Upwards then suffocate? Then we'd be killed by falling animals. Nooooooooooooooooo!Deep Sea Isopod wrote:Migratory animals would fly in the wrong direction and die.
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
RuleBritannia wrote:Only if the Moon was suddenly removed right now, if it had never of been there those animals would have never evolved to depend on the Moon.Deep Sea Isopod wrote:Migratory animals would fly in the wrong direction and die.
Sorry I have to be a pedant.. of is not a verb...
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
Elessarina wrote:RuleBritannia wrote:Only if the Moon was suddenly removed right now, if it had never of been there those animals would have never evolved to depend on the Moon.Deep Sea Isopod wrote:Migratory animals would fly in the wrong direction and die.
Sorry I have to be a pedant.. of is not a verb...
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
The moon was originally a part of earth and was knocked away by a big asteroid. The earth would have been biggerer if that hadn't happened. So we'd all have biggerer muscle bits to compensate for the higher gravity of a biggerer earth.
So it's the asteroids fault if you have smallerer muscles.
So it's the asteroids fault if you have smallerer muscles.
Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
And heres a nifty lil' animation showing itamused wrote:The moon was originally a part of earth and was knocked away by a big asteroid
But its only a hypothesis
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
Tigger wrote:
Well that is one of my pet peeves..
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Bravo Elessarina 
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
Oh, I agree.Elessarina wrote:Tigger wrote:
Well that is one of my pet peeves..
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
There would be tides without the Moon; they would just be smaller, caused solely by the Sun.
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
True...Berthold wrote:There would be tides without the Moon; they would just be smaller, caused solely by the Sun.
A lot smaller, I think...
Maybe only 10 - 20 % the magnitude?
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
Half the difference between spring and neap tide, obviously (but I don't know how much that isJimC wrote:True...Berthold wrote:There would be tides without the Moon; they would just be smaller, caused solely by the Sun.
A lot smaller, I think...
Maybe only 10 - 20 % the magnitude?
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Re: Is the moon necessary for life?
I hate it when moonlight wakes me up.
Moonlight Sonata my arse.
Moonlight Sonata my arse.
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