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Re: Moon was produced by head-on collision?

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The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>Michael Moroney wrote:

>> Babbling nonsense.  Read up on the water cycle.  Water drawn up in plants
>> (by the sun as part of photosynthesis, not the moon) is a minor component
>> of the water cycle.

>What is "a minor component of the water cycle."? Are you talking about 
>the moon as being "a minor component of the water cycle."?

Can't you read? I said that plant transpiration of water (caused by the 
sun) is a minor component.  The moon is irrelevant, the words "moon" and
"tide" aren't even used in the Wikipedia article on the water cycle.
The moon isn't mentioned in a long USGS web page explaining the water 
cycle, "tide" is only because they explain the water table and wells by
using the example of digging a hole at the beach which fills with water
from the ocean (and is affected by tides).

>The Moon moves the ocean. Is the ocean "a minor component of the water 
>cycle."????

As a storage reservoir and a source of evaporation, the ocean is major.
The effect of tides on these are minimal, how minimal others are arguing
about in this thread.

>> >Now that you understand that part..
>> >do you understand how the moon makes the ocean?

It doesn't.  It sloshes it around somewhat.

>> False conclusion based on a false assumption.

>Do you know what the Moon does to a single drop of water on a single leaf???

I suppose it could raise a tide in it.  Now I am wondering whether such
a tide could even be measured or whether a poison dart frog hopping
by would raise a larger tide in it.

>Do you actually believe that the Moon and affect the whole ocean on 
>earth, but not a drop of water on a leaf?

Right now I am not bored enough to calculate how many nanometers high a
moon tide in a raindrop would be. Or a frog tide, either.

>You don't understand the mechanism of the moon....
>do you understand how the moon makes the ocean??

Babbling nonsense.

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  Re: Moon was produced by head-on collision? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-30 22:17 -0600
  Re: Moon was produced by head-on collision? dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-01-31 07:25 -0800
  Re: Moon was produced by head-on collision? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-31 09:44 -0800
    Re: Moon was produced by head-on collision? dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-01-31 17:02 -0800
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  Re: Moon was produced by head-on collision? willner@cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner) - 2016-02-01 22:27 +0000
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