[dayglored]

> It’s not the ocean tides, it’s the tidal transfer of momentum — a body in prograde motion around a parent body loses rotational momentum as it pushes away, and vice versa. If the Earth had no oceans this would all still be going on.

Hmmm. Maybe I need to crack open my ancient orbital dynamics textbook (50 years ago I earned a BS in Physics but then went into system engineering and IT instead)... It's probably hidden under the partial diff-eq and lin-algebra textbooks, LOL.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh geez... I’m pretty sure that if I started looking for stuff around here from 50 years ago, I could have a camera crew shoot the expedition and post it on YouTube. I’m just not a great housekeeper...