The 'Supermoon' Did Not Cause the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

Space.com ^ | 03/12/2011 | Space.com

[Little Pig]

I know that. My point was that we don’t *just* have tides when the moon is full or new, so why can’t we expect the moon’s other effects to affect us at other times as well.

[Plumberman27]

Nope it was once again, Bush's fault. Everything is Bush's fault. Obamma will save Japan. right? ha ha ha It will be interesting to see what that little twerp in office has to say and even more interesting what he does. The guy reminds me of that boat in the whirlpool.

[Plumberman27]

I simply can not believe that this is all due to Hillary bending over and showing a bit of cheek. It is a huge moon but who woulda thunk her big ole butt could cause an earthquake and tsunami. She gots that big ole thing. Maybe her and Michelle bumped butts and caused it all.

[trebb]

Of course not... it was man-made CO2 that caused it. Invest in carbon credits now.

Close - it is JFK's fault for landing men on the moon, changing the pattern of dust and altering its ecology forever. Probably also made it move its orbit to cause this kind of devastation as an act of vengeance.

[JRios1968]

The 'Supermoon' Did Not Cause the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

Of course not. Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and the rhetoric on conservative talk radio are clearly to blame!

[aumrl]

THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION!

[Cvengr]

IOW, if you think this is bad, just wait till march 19th!

[smalltownslick]

Why do I keep thinking of Joe Tex?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcJD8qBgPoY

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks The Magical Mischief Tour.

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[decimon]

Regarding tides and the tsunami...

Anyone know if the tide was high in the area where the tsunami hit Japan?

If it was high then was it higher than usual due to the current orbit of the Moon?

[SunkenCiv]

Pardon the intrusion, a one-time ping to those who mentioned the SuperMoon thing.

[RummyChick]

Except that the SuperMoon dude did say there was a time March 1-7 that something could happen.

http://www.astropro.com/forecast/predict/2011-03.html

.” Lesser geocosmic shock windows also up the ante for unusually strong storms and moderate to severe seismic activity (including magnitude 5+ earthquakes, subsequent tsunami, and volcanic eruptions). These lesser windows include March 1-7 (surrounding the new moon on the 4th), March 23-26 (bracketing the lunar south declination peak on the 25th), and from late on the 31st on into early April. “

Personally, I think it had an effect. So the date is off a few days. Of course, it could all be coincidence.

[TopQuark]

I can't believe that such rape of logic would be published by a source promoting science.

The 'Supermoon' Did Not Cause the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

Nobody can say that. All one can say is that there is no evidence that full moon provokes seismic activity.

The best evidence that this earthquake was not caused by a supermoon is that it happened now — exactly a week away from the date the moon will be full,

Argument against a straw man. The writer tacitly posits that that the break should occur at the exact moment when the moon is full. The proponents of the idea do not say such as stupid thing. What they do say is that as moon approaches the full-moon position, the seismic activity increases. A rope does not need to break when you pull it with your maximal strength: it will break if you pull hard enough, even before the tension is greatest. Regardless of whether the claim about the full moon is true, the write commits a logical fallacy: his argument is argumentum ad stramineus homo.

How much more can we dumb down our population? Even those that write for Space.com can't even think straight.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The square of the closest distance (now) is 1.25 times larger than the square of furthest distance between the Moon and the Earth. IOW, the tug of the Moon’s gravity is now 25% greater than it is, when the Moon is at apogee.

That's interesting.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Fascinating comment. Thanks.

As Barry Farber used to say, "never believe something until it's officially denied."

lol. AMEN!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

F = (6.673 x 5.97E24 x7.347E22)/359861x359861
F = (6.673 x 5.97E24 x7.347E22)/405948x405948

the smaller is .78583024234 of the larger. :’)

the larger is 1.2725394699 of the smaller. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Gravitational Constant

by John Carl Villanueva on July 19, 2009

The gravitational constant is the proportionality constant used in Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, and is commonly denoted by G. This is different from g, which denotes the acceleration due to gravity. In most texts, we see it expressed as:

G = 6.673x10^-11 N m² kg^-2

It is typically used in the equation:

F = (G x m₁ x m₂) / r² , wherein

F = force of gravity

G = gravitational constant

m₁ = mass of the first object (lets assume it's of the massive one)

m₂ = mass of the second object (lets assume it's of the smaller one)

r = the separation between the two masses

[garjog]

“my favorite pinball game of all time, popular in late 70’s early 80’s”

COOL. I didn’t know that. Gorgar sounds like garjog. Ha.

Mine is based on the first three letters of my first name, the first two of my middle name and the last initial of my last name. Gary Jon Gillespie. http://eagle.northwestu.edu/academic/artsci/faculty/ggillespie/

Did a search. Seems there is song about the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCuUFEM1u8w

http://www.mp3lyrics.org/h/helloween/gorgar/

[SunkenCiv]

:’)