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How cold Earth w/o moon
Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:00:32 +0000 (UTC)
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Brad Guth...
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Give us a swag of some what-if numbers, as to how cold would this Earth
become if we could simply remove that pesky moon of ours?
Ken S. Tucker...
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The moon adds about 80 megatons of TNT equivalent
per day to the interior of the earth, and that roughly
accounts for tectonics and earthquakes.
Ken
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chatnoir...
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Ve could go back to 1870 then!:
Brad Guth...
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What so great or not about 1870?
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chatnoir...
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My computer has no problem opening the link!
Brad Guth...
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Mine doesn't. Sorry about that.
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Brad Guth
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Sounds good for what's continually happening mostly below our feet
because of that orbiting mascon. Now for removing that "80 megatons of
TNT equivalent per day" of energy is going to eventually cool Earth to
what extent?
JXStern...
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"eventually" is a long time.
Brad Guth...
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OK, per second or per whatever frame of time you'd care to impose.
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And why exactly was this crossed to r.a.tv?
jimp...
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Because Brad Guth is a really bad SCI-FI/comedy show?
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Brad Guth...
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Because it's worth a televised post, don't you think? (at least as good
as "string theory")
I'll also have to repost my previous reply, simply because Mailgate just
had another one of their stealth moderation bouts of intellectual
banishment flatulence.
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Roger Coppock...
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According to Wikipedia's article on moonlight:
. . . the full moon is about 500,000 times fainter than the sun.
Which is roughly .003 W/m^2 or about one-thousandth of the
heat now trapped by greenhouse gases, 2.8 W/m^2. While
Moonshine is a powerful drink, it is not a very powerful climate
factor.
In the global warming debate, the moon is a very significant
factor however. It is under the light of each full moon that
fossil fools meet to ritually cut out the still beating heart of
a young girl smear themselfs with her blood and then dance
naked chanting the mantra, "oil profits, oil profits!"
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Roger Coppock...
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According to Wikipedia's article on moonlight:
. . . the full moon is about 500,000 times fainter than the sun.
Which is roughly .003 W/m^2 or about one-thousandth of the
heat now trapped by greenhouse gases, 2.8 W/m^2. While
Moonshine is a powerful drink, it is not a very powerful climate
factor.
Brad Guth...
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Where did I ever once ask or even imply anything about common/visible
moonshine, that's as you'd say a rather wussy amount of energy/m2.
Why are you being so braille as to the regular laws of physics, yet you
keep seeing all of that nifty moonshine as though it means something?
If we're actually going to seriously talk about wussy moonshine; Can
your eyes see all of the terrific IR or FIR spectrum? (I didn't think
so)
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Brad Guth
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In the global warming debate, the moon is a very significant
factor however. It is under the light of each full moon that
fossil fools meet to ritually cut out the still beating heart of
a young girl, smear themselfs with her blood, and then dance
naked chanting the mantra, "oil profits, oil profits!"
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I'm sure there's a few other factors (mostly negative) besides
temperature.
Garondo Marondo...
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No tides, women folk won'yt get their monthly visitor, werewolves would
die out, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren would be very upset.
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Garondo Marondo!
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