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if the moon werent here, then nothing would happen exept there would be no tides. the moons gravitational pull isnt enough to make any more affect that that. and i dodnt know hoe the hell anyone can think we wouldnt be here if the moon wasnt there.

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Originally Posted by slash112

if the moon werent here, then nothing would happen exept there would be no tides. the moons gravitational pull isnt enough to make any more affect that that. and i dodnt know hoe the hell anyone can think we wouldnt be here if the moon wasnt there.

Believe what you will. I highly doubt it.

The moon is what created our cycles.

Originally Posted by DeathCell

Believe what you will. I highly doubt it.

The moon is what created our cycles.

explain please. what does it actually do apart from tides.

You can read what roxxor posted.

Though no one can be for sure what it would be like, I don't ask for it to happen.

ye ive read it, so things probably would be different, but if the moon had never been there, then us humans would be fine because it would just be that way so we would have already learned to live that way, but if it were to dissappear now, then we would be stuffed. the changes we would have to make would be astronomical. this is if that article is correct.

I dunno, I'm just randomly throwing that in there, you guys may find it interesting.

It would be weird if the moon did the same thing to your eyeballs.

I wonder what would the earth would do to you if you lived on the moon.

Maybe the moon affects the periods of women? They do have 28 day period cycle, like the moon has a 28 day cycle. Could be coincidence of course, because with other animals this is not the case.

Originally Posted by ChaybaChayba

Maybe the moon affects the periods of women? They do have 28 day period cycle, like the moon has a 28 day cycle. Could be coincidence of course, because with other animals this is not the case.

It can also apparently be changed simply through exposure to the hormones of other females, manipulating that cycle regardless of the period of the moon. So if it does play a role, it's supposed to be one that can be over-ruled by other PMSing women (like roommates/female family members getting their periods at the same time)

the last research I read actually suggested women started their month right before the new moon. and since ancient cultures back then were paying attention to the heavens, women knew what night they were going to start and so on

it makes sense really

since the moon is important to other animals and their reproductive cycles

supposedly modern times has the female body entirely out of sync, for one reason or another. maybe were not sleeping outside enough, or artificial lighting has our bodies confused

but I dont think any of this is proven fact, yet

Certainly in urban enviroments at least, the moon will make no difference to us at all. On the rare occasions that we are outside at dark, all the street lighting and such completely dwarfs the moon's light.

What I've also been wondering is why does a month have 31/30/28 days?

A month obviously comes from the word moon. A moon cycle is 28 days. There's exactly 13 moon cycles in one year. 28x13 = 364, which is exactly how long a real year is.

So why do we make it so difficult and turn a year into 12 months, and make each cycle unsychronized with the moons cycle? I mean, nature is so perfectly logical and we go creating months that have 28 days one year, and 29 days the other year.. wtf? Some months are 30 days, others are 31 days? How does that make sense at all? And then we go add a day to a year, each 4 years? Why on earth are we going to all this trouble, if we could just have 13 months, with each 28 days, perfectly fitting into one year, perfectly matching the moon cycles?

We divide the year into 12 because 12 has many factors (we can easily split it into half a year, a quarter of a year, etcetera; same reason we have 12 hours); 13 has no factors.

And no, there are not 364 days in a year (), there are 365 and a quarter. That's why we have an extra day every four years; 365*3 + 366 / 365*4 = 365 + 1/4.

It not exactly a quarter, is it?

Which makes me wonder, will we eventually, after however many thousands of years, experience winter in June in the northern hemisphere?

It's not like anybody is counting that extra percentage after the quarter...are they?

Funny you should say that; there was a leap second this year.

Originally Posted by Xei

Funny you should say that; there was a leap second this year.

We never should have given those physicists that atomic clock... Now all they do is play with it.

Originally Posted by juroara

the last research I read actually suggested women started their month right before the new moon. and since ancient cultures back then were paying attention to the heavens, women knew what night they were going to start and so on

it makes sense really

since the moon is important to other animals and their reproductive cycles

supposedly modern times has the female body entirely out of sync, for one reason or another. maybe were not sleeping outside enough, or artificial lighting has our bodies confused

but I dont think any of this is proven fact, yet

I believe the moon holds much power that us humans can barely comprehend.

The moon has no power actually, because its velocity is perpendicular to the centripetal gravitational force.

Originally Posted by Xei

The moon has no power actually, because its velocity is perpendicular to the centripetal gravitational force.

Funny man.

Originally Posted by DeathCell

I believe the moon holds much power that us humans can barely comprehend.

In all seriousness, on what reasoning and/or evidence do you base this belief?

And please don't use the argument from ignorance, which goes something like "well science doesn't know everything, so there are things we don't know about". This is an incredibly flawed argument, both because science is the only objective way to obtain knowledge, so to deny it would be paradoxical, and because you're making a very specific claim here. You specifically say that the object orbiting the Earth 'holds power over us'. To make a specific claim requires specific evidence. So let's hear it.

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Originally Posted by drewmandan

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Can I ask a question, or are you going to ban me for trying to hold a discussion in a forum?

I for one like the majority of the things you write, as long as you don't get too rude, aggressive, or condescending to the other members. I think the main problem the staff have with you is that attitude with which you pwn people, not the fact that you do. Then again, I'm not a mod.

I dunno, do you see swimming pools being affected by the moon's gravity?

Then our bodies (which contain a lot less water than pools) sure as hell shouldn't react any different, haha

Originally Posted by drewmandan

In all seriousness, on what reasoning and/or evidence do you base this belief?

And please don't use the argument from ignorance, which goes something like "well science doesn't know everything, so there are things we don't know about". This is an incredibly flawed argument, both because science is the only objective way to obtain knowledge, so to deny it would be paradoxical, and because you're making a very specific claim here. You specifically say that the object orbiting the Earth 'holds power over us'. To make a specific claim requires specific evidence. So let's hear it.

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Can I ask a question, or are you going to ban me for trying to hold a discussion in a forum?

You say the same thing every time you make a post.

I'm not going to go over the same argument, science is not the only way to obtain knowledge. It's not paradoxical, it's as simple as you not wanting to believe or understand that people can understand things and obtain knowledge without your close minded world of scientific experiments.

My claim is based on what I've observed in my life, so other than that you can do research on your own about the moon.

I don't need someone to hold my hand on a daily basis to know something to be true. I don't need someone to confirm that this lighter in my hand is in fact is a lighter. That's how you view the world, not me.


(I must also say I love science and understand it's great potential to help us learn and understand the world around us, all things are not so easily repeated and observable.)


People these days are so unbalanced. Gotta polarize themselves so much...