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| 02 Aug 2013 11:40 PM |
| Earth would be flooded due to no tidal friction on the planet. We would have massive flooding and everything would probably be under water. Accept for high mountains, though. |
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| 02 Aug 2013 11:40 PM |
| without luna you would have probably curled up and died by now |
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| 02 Aug 2013 11:40 PM |
Luna does nothing to help this world. She is not real |
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| 02 Aug 2013 11:41 PM |
| You guys are idiots. Go back to history class. :P |
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| 02 Aug 2013 11:42 PM |
On a daily basis, we would still have large breakers on the continental west coasts because of the rotation speed of the Earth, and the existence of storms out at sea, and sloping beaches. The waves we are most familiar with from minute to minute are caused by small ripples out at sea caused by storms, which get amplified into majestic breakers by their motion up a sloping beach, and the rotation of the Earth from west to east which gives them added momentum. Without the Moon, we would still have high and low tides due to the Sun, but these would be half as tall as the lunar high and low tides. There would, however, be no Neap or Spring Tides which occur when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth, or on the same side.
So far as anyone can tell, there would be no impacts on the issue of life on the Earth because, if ocean tides were important in getting life started by, for example, mixing up the so-called 'primordial soup', the solar tides ought to have been more than adequate to have done the same thing 3.5 - 4.0 billion years ago.
Without the Moon, there would have been no necessity for breaking the calendar year into 12 months. A large body of music titles would also have disappeared.
The tidal stress upon the Earth due to the gravity from the Moon would have vanished, and some feel that this might have had an impact on how active the crust of the Earth would be in terms of vulcanism and continental drift. It is possible that the Earth would have been slightly less geologically active, and when the Earth's atmosphere was first being formed via volcanic outgassing, perhaps it would have taken a bit longer for the atmosphere to have reached high enough concentrations necessary for synthesizing life. I think, however, that the physics of the interior of the Earth, the rate of convection of the mantle, is far more under the control of non-lunar influences intrinsic to the Earth itself. |
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| 02 Aug 2013 11:42 PM |
1.) Except 2.) Stop it with these threads I'm getting cancer |
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| 02 Aug 2013 11:43 PM |
| @Wiki wow, you know everything like I do. lol |
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