Comments on: If We Had No Moon

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:38:33 +0000

I’ve seen a show on one of the Discovery channels called “If We Had No Moon” narrated by Patrick Stewart. One of the theories presented was that the moon’s gravitational influence kept the earth’s axis close to perpendicular (as compared to, say, Uranus). I’m not sure I buy this theory, though, because the other inner planets don’t have large satellites, and their axes all point more or less straight up and down.

By: Art Waite

Art Waite — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:23:15 +0000

Try to look up Isaac Asimov’s twin essays ‘The Tragedy of the Moon’, and ‘The Triumph of the Moon’ for a broad, entertaining exploration of just what the Moon has done for us, all these years.

By: Rosebud

Rosebud — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:31:02 +0000

I’ve read some biologists speculate that without the moon and the size of tides, that sea animal life would be much less likely to spend time on land, and so we may never have had land-based life to evolve into us.

By: Moon

Moon — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:09:00 +0000

If we had no Moon?

Don’t even talk like that! Sheesh.