Posted on 03/14/2011 4:20:31 PM PDT by TaraP
A little rational thought goes a long way. The moon is approaching perigee half the time and its approaching apogee the other half. Basically you have two weeks of every month to choose a disaster. However it requires ignoring any disasters that happen during the other two weeks.
Technically the moon will never be closer because its slipping away at a rate of a couple of inches every year.
Full moon and New moon include the concept
of “syzygy” with the sun/moon/earth in a straight
line. The gets either opposing gravitational pull or
a sum of moon+sun gravitation. At perigee for
the moon, it makes its greatest contribution. I’m
not certain when perigee occurs for the earth/sun
distance. Certainly an equinox puts the largest
diameter of the earth in line with the sun, thus
placing the surface closer.
“Moonageddon: on March 19, our nearest neighbour will be at its closest since 1993.”
Earthquakes, tsunamies and u-235, oh my!
I am scared to death, I tell you...scared to death.
bflr
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if it did happen. At the rate we are going right now, it seems something largely newsworthy is happening once a week or so. Think about it...Egypt’s unrest and Mubarak stepping down, civil war in Libya almost a week later, unrest spreading across the region in the following weeks, and now a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting Japan.
OMG STOP GLOBAL SUPERMOON!
ALERT CONGRESS!
Lobby your congressman to outlaw earthquakes and tsunamis!
Thanks thanks.
Wonderful.
Another thread to invite being flayed alive on! LOL.
Sigh.
You mean...the moon doesn’t weigh more when it is full?
/s
Depends on what its full of.
The moon will not cause any problems here.
One possible analysis....
The supermoon is optimum, i.e. max gravity.
The earthquakes now show that as the gravitational pull grows failure occurs at a point of lesser stress than when the force is at a maximum, supermoon
It was to be expected as an unpredictable possibility. It was not predictable because the failure stress is unknown and can’t be calculated.
Next time, a prediction can be made on the basis of time before supermoon
We won’t have to wait long to find out.
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