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The Moon is leaving
Our partner in the sky is now 4 ft further from us than 1969 when Neil Armstrong et al first set foot there. They set down reflectors to allow accurate radar measurements. Ultimately it will depart, but we will not be around to witness this.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Rockytop, Tennessee, USA
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Someone here will find a way to blame it all on George Bush and global warming...
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Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Lincolnshire
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It's all due to George Bush and global warming....
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cheshire
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Another event, sooner than its departure, will be no more total solar eclipses as the moon's disc gets smaller as it gets farther away from Earth and will eventually be too small to cover the whole Sun so annular eclipses from then on.
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Is the moon moving away from us or are we moving away from the moon?
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Posts: 178
Are you a Philosopher Tom?
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 309
a happy face?
So then we'll get to see the dark side of the moon too, as the periodicity of orbit and that of rotation will go out of sync...
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But where are we (Earth and the Moon) in absolute terms? Are we drifting even further away from the cradle of our birth?
I think we ought to be told.
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fdr
So then we'll get to see the dark side of the moon too, as the periodicity of orbit and that of rotation will go out of sync...
Will it still be the dark side? Or will it become part of the bright side?
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Posts: 569
Good. I'm fed up with it.
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Wunderbra
Join Date: Aug 2006
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brain fade
Good. I'm fed up with it.
I agree, stop all this silly up and down thing with the seas too!
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Psychophysiological entity
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: A Whilom nimble brain. With 31 million posts.
Age: 73
Posts: 3,374
Quote:
Originally Posted by
fdr
So then we'll get to see the dark side of the moon too, as the periodicity of orbit and that of rotation will go out of sync...
No, 'fraid not. The shape of the mood causes it to apply a corrective torque, and it will remain 'facing' us.
<---- The moon.
Why does the disc just happen to cover the sun so precisely? Cos we are here now, and not before or after now.
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Ppruner of the Year Nominee 2005
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Yeah! Who's laughing at Martin Landau now eh?
EH? (aside fromBarbara Bain that is...)
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Confirmed - we are all lunatics!
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I thought a lunatic was a moondial.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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You will miss it when it is gone...unless GW is on moonbase alpha
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I like Babara Bain. She was the sort of girl that would stay at home and cook the dinner....er, that is if yer world didn't **** orf into space. Still she was nice and soft looking, and looked nice in black and white.
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I know that Martin Sheen was a Professional.
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This is a Ford Landau...
And this is a Martin Landau...
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Join Date: May 2005
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Posts: 677
Which one?
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...ummm....
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