Posted on 05/22/2006 4:52:42 PM PDT by blam
Something striking head-on, ie, slowing down the Moon, could cause the Moon itself to start wandering in, but that would mean the Moon would have to be solid like a pool ball. An impact big enough to move the Moon in that manner would blow out huge chunks of junk, and some of that would rain down on the Earth, causing problems.
Without the Moon, the tilt of Earth's spin axis would vary chaotically between 0 and 85 degrees.Really... I thought pole shift would never, ever work because the Earth is an oblate spheroid.
Oh, cool! Chandler wobble, huh? Never heard of it. Gonna spend some time checking out those threads, thanks!
lol ;)
Now, if we really want to change the odds we need to actually do something such as put some hardware out in space so we can change the momentum vector. But, doing anything these days seems to take Congress and several $ billion and a declaration of human rights violations and investigations of charges of bribery and racism.
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I don't think it would qualify as hardware . . .
but I wonder if we could position Scuba Teddy's buttocks such that we could precision guide his farts. Surely the old windbag has enough wind to change the course of some pretty big asteroids?
Me, too; maybe dead.
Oops, I meant to include a pointer to this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1636627/posts?page=62#62
Worst of all, the Moonbats!
Shumaker or Levy. I think technically they are amateur astronomers.David Levy (it sez here) is indeed an amateur astronomer, and Eugene Shoemaker (deceased) was a geologist, and Carolyn Shoemaker was trained as an astronomer. Carolyn has the most comet discoveries of any person in history (the record is now held by a machine, and it will be forever).
I would just 'reshape' itself like it did at the end of the Ice Age when the weight of the ice was redistributed around the world. Look for gawdawful earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis, land suddenly sinking and rising and etc.
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