From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Aug 19 1999 - 06:46:50 MDT
"James Daugherty" <daugh@home.msen.com> writes:
> Our Moon's period of rotation is EXACTLY equal to its period of
> revolution around the earth. This means that its day is equal
> to its year, which in turn means that we ALWAYS see the same
> face of the moon, and always have.
>
> To us the moon appears NOT to be spinning at all.
>
> Again what are the odds, I ask you, what are the odds.
This is rather easy, since it is caused by tidal lock - the moon
likely rotated in the past, but the stretching from the Earth's tidal
forces made it dissipate the rotation energy as heat. Seems to be a
quite common phenomenon among moons.
> Also did you know that the word MONTH comes from the word MOON,
> and that a lunar cycle is 28 days long [same as a womans
> menstrual cycle and high tides] and that 13 lunar months, or
> 13x28days is EXACTLY EQUAL to 364 DAYS AND VERY close to a
> year??
It is probably the same conspiracy that is behind putting major cities
close to rivers or trading routes. I think the original poster of the
text James reposts is a bit too paranoid, and at least here turns the
implication arrows the wrong way around.
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