I learned something interesting about the moon and the earth + climate(vanity)

[Ancient Drive]

I was watching this program about the moon and the important role it plays on stabilizing earth. One of the things it does is keep it from wobbling all over the place. It keeps the earth fairly balanced, but every now and then the planet tilts 5 degrees up or down causing massive climatic changes. The last tilt turned what we now know as the Sahara desert from a lush green forest with rivers into the pile of sand it is today. So I'm thinking ok.. we have these tilts every now and then let's not forget solar flares + magnetic pole shifts. I pity the fools that drive Prius es!

[CSM]

This is very likely meant to remain a secret of the mayan’s.

[wally_bert]

When the E-Frames are in regular use, terraforming Mars and Venus will be taken care of, its the artificial race of neo-sapiens that will be dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHKyY2DTEco

[wally_bert]

When the E-Frames are in regular use, terraforming Mars and Venus will be taken care of, its the artificial race of neo-sapiens that will be dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHKyY2DTEco

[CSM]

Dang. My first triple ping. Ouch and sorry all. My phone keeps dropping svc and it looks like it posted while my svc was going in and out.

[cripplecreek]

Earth and the moon are really more of a dual planet system.

Obviously we can’t terraform mars today but given the rate of our technological advances, who knows what we will be able to do in a few hundred or thousand years.

[PapaBear3625]

I think man’s warlike activities also had a lot to do with the Sahara being desert.

North Africa used to be the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. Then Islam came. The Arabs were herders rather than farmers. Overgrazing helped turn once-productive land into desert.

[piroque]

Does all this mean we're all gonna die

Bend over and kiss your a$$ good bye

[ml/nj]

turned what we now know as the Sahara desert from a lush green forest with rivers into the pile of sand it is today.

Do people ever think about statements like this?

So let's see. There used to be lots of green plants growing in something. Was it sand? Where did the sand come from? The plants died because the climate supposedly changed. I guess it got warmer and the rain stopped. Well, it's pretty warm around the equator in the Americas which is now feeling the brunt of these supposed tilt changes, but it's hot there and it rains a lot. (and trees too, but little sand) There are obviously a lot of factors in local rainfall amounts but terrain and proximity to the oceans are two biggies that would have nothing to do with tilt changes.

ML/NJ

[tired&retired]

As the "plates" on each side are pulled away, lava emerges from the middle, solidifies and "records" the prevailing magnetic field. The newly formed basalt sticks to the plates and is also pulled away--some of it towards Europe and Africa, some towards America. Every half million years, on the average, the Earth's magnetic polarity reverses, and so does the magnetization of the ocean floor. Each strip therefore represents an epoch of one or the other magnetic polarity, and the symmetry is also explained. It is as if the sea-floor was a giant tape recorder, with twin tapes emerging from the mid-Atlantic ridge, recording the Earth's magnetism at the time they emerge and then traveling in opposite directions. Similar magnetic strips were also observed in all other oceans. Sometimes the field completely flips. The north and the south poles swap places. Such reversals, recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks, are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years; the last one was 780,000 years ago. Are we overdue for another? No one knows. The above & below is a post from a NASA website. The shift is normal and it happens on the sun every11 year solar cycle.

[frithguild]

so that we have the pleasure of solar eclipses

The orbit of the earth and moom are on the same plane as the orbit of the earth and sun because the sun's gravity exerts itself on both the earth and moon.

we never get to see the far side of the moon

We never see the far side of the moon because the earth and moon were once on body. Once they separated there were no appreciable forces to cause divergence of their rates of rotation.

[Jack Hydrazine]

What causes the 100,000 year cycles of ice ages is the orbital eccentricity of the Earth.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I thought the Moon was moving about 2 inches per year away from the Earth. I read some years ago that if the Moon were not orbiting the Earth the winds would be a constant 300mph. Maybe that is why it would be uninhabitable.

[Focault's Pendulum]

My first triple ping.

All taken care of.

[6SJ7]

However, most human life could already be extinguished by then if the Super Volcano at Yellowstone National Park erupts, or if the Earth's magnetic field reverses polarity, or if a huge solar flare or the right sized asteroid happens to whack the Earth. Meanwhile, it's very important that you replace your 60 watt light bulbs with the more energy efficient variety filled with deadly mercury vapor.

LOL! Indeed. Replacing that bulb in the basement will save the planet.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Another important thing to consider is that Earth has been able to maintain a climate due to the magnetic shield being produced by this constant rotation and thereby keeping our atmosphere in tact.

Now consider the nearest planet to Earth, Mars has 2 moons. There is evidence that Mars once had a climate as well. It is being speculated that Mars experienced a fateful impact which changed it’s rotation. It has a distinct wobble, there is no complete magnetic shield protecting it from the solar winds that blew away its atmosphere into the cosmos.

New NASA Probe on its Way to Mars

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/space/9961-new-nasa-probe-on-its-way-to-mars

[CSM]

Awesome. I can come out of hiding now.

[aruanan]

A wobble that is different from the one that causes the 23,000 year general precession?

[TheOldLady]

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