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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Alan Baker wrote:
> >
> > On 2017-02-09 11:12 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > > Michael Moroney wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Python <python@python.invalid> writes:
> > >>
> > >>> The Starmaker wrote:
> > >>>> The Moon causes the rising and falling...the falling is the process used
> > >>>> to make water..like rain fall.
> > >>
> > >>> Mr "Starmaker", you are high on drugs, aren't you?
> > >>
> > >> S/He's been on the drugs for a while, apparently.  "The moon makes water"
> > >> has to be one of the k00kiest ideas on Usenet I've heard, and that's
> > >> saying something.
> > >>
> > >> Of course, without a moon, the earth would still have tides, from the sun.
> > >> The difference would be the tides would be smaller, and would take place
> > >> about the same time every day (nearish noon and midnight).
> > >
> > >
> > > Is this an observation you have made???? don't bogart that joint...
> > >
> >
> > It's a fact.
> >
> > There's a reason tides get larger and smaller over the course of a lunar
> > month: they lunar tide goes in and out of phase with the solar tide.
> 
> The op wrote: "Of course, without a moon, the earth would still have
> tides, ..."
> 
> How Baker can you have a "lunar month" or "lunar tide".... "without a
> moon"????


Of course the answer is...everyone here suffers from ...reading
comprehension.