Re: queensland cyclone update

On 5/02/2011 12:38 PM, Twibil wrote:
On Feb 4, 1:00 pm, Mark Bedingfield
<atari...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Food for thought. I guess the seas would settle at one level (or close
to) and stay there.

Nope. Both the Sun and the Moon cause tides, and removing the moon
would still leave the solar tides rising and falling twice a day.

The difference would be that they would always rise to the same
heights.

Yeah, but they wouldn't be quite so high as the lunar tide I would imagine.

Mark
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