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To: WildTurkey
It's spin rate exactly matches it's rate of revolution around the earth.

The odds of this occurrence are infinitesimal.

475 posted on 02/08/2005 12:03:35 PM PST by houeto ("Mr. President , close our borders now!")
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To: houeto

Actually, they're not. The Moon is tidally-locked to the Earth. A number of other satellites in the Solar System are also tidally-locked to their primaries.


478 posted on 02/08/2005 12:08:07 PM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: houeto
The odds of this occurrence are infinitesimal.

No. They are predicted by scientific theory and the conservation of angular momentum. In fact, in billions of years from now, people on the moon will only see one side of the earth!

479 posted on 02/08/2005 12:11:09 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: houeto
The odds of this occurrence are infinitesimal.

Sort of like the possibility of evolution producing man is, hmmm, infinitesimal?

490 posted on 02/08/2005 12:34:34 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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