And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The high orbiting stationary satellites would be yanked out of orbit. And, I don't even want think about the effect this would have on the tidal motion of the oceans..........
At such a distance, expect to see whole coasts disappear every orbit and by that I mean astronimically huge tidal waves that could sweep thousands of miles inland. When he moon was on the opposite side the sea level could drop thousands of feet.
Anyone run the numbers on how much effect it would have on your weight as it passes overhead? I bet you would be able to jump quite a bit higher. Then there would be the opposite effect after the moon had set....
It wouldn't look like that. The moon would be torn into an asteroid belt around the Earth long before it descended to that altitude due to the tidal effects (see Roche limit). So what was left of the Earth after half the Moon crashed into it as meteors would be surrounded by a ring like Saturn. For a while.
Of course everyone here is probably already aware of that and I'm just a pedantic twit:-D.
That would make some very large tides.
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DeleteThe high orbiting stationary satellites would be yanked out of orbit. And, I don't even want think about the effect this would have on the tidal motion of the oceans..........
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ReplyDeleteIt's a great depiction of what Rosie O'Donnell's butt would look like as she walked past your house. Craters of Cellulite, of course.
ReplyDeleteAt such a distance, expect to see whole coasts disappear every
ReplyDeleteorbit and by that I mean astronimically huge tidal waves that
could sweep thousands of miles inland. When he moon was on
the opposite side the sea level could drop thousands of feet.
Anyone run the numbers on how much effect it would have on your weight as it passes overhead? I bet you would be able to jump quite a bit higher. Then there would be the opposite effect after the moon had set....
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't look like that. The moon would be torn into an asteroid belt around the Earth long before it descended to that altitude due to the tidal effects (see Roche limit). So what was left of the Earth after half the Moon crashed into it as meteors would be surrounded by a ring like Saturn. For a while.
ReplyDeleteOf course everyone here is probably already aware of that and I'm just a pedantic twit:-D.