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Re: Neptune's Moon Lagoon
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Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:26:10 GMT
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   On the side facing the Earth, the water would be extremely deep, all the time.

And on the opposite side two... (there are 2 tides per day on earth!)

Philo



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  Re: Neptune's Moon Lagoon
 
(...) Less than you might think. The reason why there's an obverse lunar tide is because the moon is small and doesn't exert enough gravitic force on the far side of earth to pull all the water around to the near side. The side closest to the moon (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)

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(...) Bingo! Although I'm not sure if anyone has ever noticed the other half of the water joke on their own either. (...) Actually...not. And not for the reasons you mentioned. Our moon has settled into a 1:1 day/month cycle because of the tidal (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)

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