I hate the Moon

Originally posted by CircleOfDust
reply to post by peter vlar

 

Can I give you a doctorate in a day? It takes some study of your own. I can only do so much.

No. I wouldn't expect it in a day since I've been working on it off and on for the last several years. I do appreciate the generosity of your offer. However I prefer to earn mine Instead of sending away for one from the back of a comic book.

Originally posted by CircleOfDust
reply to post by PheonixReborn

 

All weak. Thanks for playing and buh bye

All provable... unlike the nonsense you posted.

MODS: Can you put one of those "Extreme violation of terms and conditions" notices on the end of this post because I feel one coming on!

Contrary to popular belief, the moon is not "full" once every month on average.

While I let that sink in...

The moon is full every day.

Only the sun's reflection during the moon's relative position to the observer causes the moon to "look" full once a month on average.
If memory serves me, the orbital period of the moon is 23 hours and 37 minutes approximately.

Thats why we have tides at least twice a day.

Guess what? Most of those craters aren't impact craters. How often does an asteroid hit something at a perfect 90degree angle so that the crater is perfectly circular?

It really doesn't matter what angle the asteroid comes in at, it and the surrounding rock are going to be vaporized into a hot ball of gas/liquid rock, which expands rapidly in a spherical explosion. Therefore, the crater ends up being circular. Only when the angle is really shallow do you get elliptical craters or even scorch marks where the object ricochets back into space.

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