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To: WhiskeyX

Imagine the tides!


2 posted on 10/29/2015 10:22:47 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow

We would probably be tidally locked meaning there wouldn’t be a moving tide.


4 posted on 10/29/2015 10:25:13 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: DBrow

I could picture the oceans washing over the much of the rest of the planet

Surfing would be awesome


6 posted on 10/29/2015 10:27:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: DBrow
Exactly.

What would it look like? It wouldn't look like anything because all life on Earth would be wiped out if even a planet the size of Mars were in place of our moon.

The gravitational forces would throw our orbit around the Sun so out of whack that we'd be thrown out of that Goldilocks zone very quickly.

And Jupiter? Ha! The radioactivity it spews would make life on the surface impossible.

9 posted on 10/29/2015 10:31:35 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: DBrow

What if they replaced the moon with say, mars, but increased mars’s distance from earth so that the tidal effects would be nearly the same?


12 posted on 10/29/2015 10:37:10 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: DBrow

Make the Donald’s hair stand straight up, those tides would.


20 posted on 10/29/2015 12:16:45 PM PDT by j.havenfarm
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