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Posted on 03/10/2011 4:34:28 PM PST by americanophile
On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the night sky from just 221,567 miles (356,577 kilometers) away. On top of that, it will be full. And one astrologer believes it could inflict massive damage on the planet.
Richard Nolle, a noted astrologer who runs the website astropro.com, has famously termed the upcoming full moon at lunar perigee (the closest approach during its orbit) an "extreme supermoon."
When the moon goes super-extreme, Nolle says, chaos will ensue: Huge storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters can be expected to wreak havoc on Earth. (It should be noted that astrology is not a real science, but merely makes connections between astronomical and mystical events.)
But do we really need to start stocking survival shelters in preparation for the supermoon? [Photos: Our Changing Moon]
The question is not actually so crazy. In fact scientists have studied related scenarios for decades. Even under normal conditions, the moon is close enough to Earth to make its weighty presence felt: It causes the ebb and flow of the ocean tides.
The moon's gravity can even cause small but measureable ebbs and flows in the continents, called "land tides" or "solid Earth tides," too. The tides are greatest during full and new moons, when the sun and moon are aligned either on the same or opposite sides of the Earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Yes, I know lunar tides occur on both sides of the planet. I grew up on the ocean. However, only during a new moon is the sun’s gravitational pull added to the moon’s high tide at noon for an extreme high tide.
I’ll see your syzygy and raise you a Proxigean:
“The Proxigean Spring Tide is a rare, unusually high tide. This very high tide occurs when the moon is both unusually close to the Earth (at its closest perigee, called the proxigee) and in the New Moon phase (when the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth). The proxigean spring tide occurs at most once every 1.5 years.”
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
There will be no exceptionally high tide on March 19th. Both high tides for the 19th are predicted to be nearly equal due I suspect to it being full moon.
Old enough to see Cat Stevens become "Yousef Islam", or something like that.
Yes FrogMom, some people confuse the terms 'Astrologer' and 'Astronomer'.
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One thing a full moon will do is make a woman who is close to delivery go into labor so if you kow anyone who is more than 30 weeks PG....
Hope not, we’ve had enough natural or other disasters in this part of the world at least for this yr!
Anything big happen in 1993?
I agree with you.Cops will tell you they get 3x the calls during a full moon.Another thign is that I have a friend who works in the OB at the hospital she says they can go a week and have one baby but let the full moon come out and they have 30 in two days!
Cue the Rapture Caucus.
And if THIS isn’t the big one, the NEXT one will definitely be it!
The Lone Ranger looks up and says "I see the nighttime sky."
Tonto nods and says "So what does that tell you?"
The Lone Ranger thinks about it for a moment, then says "Well, astronomically, it tells me there are millions or even billions of stars and planetary systems in our galaxy. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is currently in Leo. Theologically, I feel the sky suggests that God is all-powerful and that we are small and insignificant. Time-wise, from the position of the moon, I'd say it's about 11:45pm. And meteorlogically, from the clarity of the sky, I'd say we're in for a great day of weather tomorrow. Why, Tonto? What does the nighttime sky tell you?"
Tonto replies "It tells me somebody stole our tent, you jacka$$."
Ah, the funny posts crack me up. There were several if you looked.
JOKE PING.
This year March 19-20 coincides with the Jewish holiday of Purim, so I guess a lot of people will be partying.
lol
Not quite, just a big fan of Frank Sinatra and Perry Como.
“... old timers called a Comanche or Apache moon as that was when to expect attacks”.
OMG!! We’re going to be attacked by injuns? Circle the wagons and anyone living near a gambling resort take care.
Bail Bondsman in and near Dallas for a couple of years several years ago.
Full moon = increased revenues.
Not just people out under the light, either.
We had a really seriously cold winter.
I went and looked at the website they mention to see if that was the case. It wasn’t, he’s an astrologer.
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