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originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: Phage
Is just...what?
Awesome?
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: klassless
Since the subject matter of the OP has already been addressed with regard to the issue of the Moon and its behaviour, I must point out one other thing about your OP, which requires addressing.
Lear, like many before him with similarly fantastical claims, is nothing more than a salesman. A personage whose sole task is to sell an idea, and preferably get an awful lot of speaking fees and book sales, out of claims which even the smallest element of scientific awareness could put holes the size of a navy destroyer in.
Collier, Greer, Lear... these individuals have in common one overriding principle. Tell nothing but lies, make nothing but profit, spend as little money as possible doing it. They are the conspiracy equivalent of snake oil salesmen. Take little to no heed of their nonsense, since they singularly fail to provide evidence which actually supports their claims, leave alone proof which stands up to scrutiny.
originally posted by: NewzNose
a reply to: TrueBrit
Have you met John Lear? Sat with him for any length of time? Obviously not. You clearly don't know him. He is nothing that you said and very much a quiet man, stepping out into the public when he feels compelled to help shed the light of truth on a subject important to him, to all of us.
But, the topic is the Moon and not John Lear, right?
originally posted by: InTheLight
a reply to: klassless
Just from your title, which I can gleen a premise, if the aliens are moving the moon and have been doing so from time immorial, they can we most assuredly assume it is for our preservation, since we have persevered. Can we not?
originally posted by: klassless
originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: klassless
Have a look at this link:
earthsky.org...
That's a nice GIF, thanks. But it sort-of falls short of Crater Tycho rotating to the 3 o'clock position! Use my photos for a more realistic GIF version.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: 3danimator2014
hahaha...With a comment like that you'd have to be from the USA? Stay there, nothing special here...hehehe
Your country is so special
The Moon orbits Earth in the prograde direction.
Retrograde motion is motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else and the contrary of direct or prograde motion.
In our Solar System, all of the planets and most of the other objects that orbit the Sun, with the exception of many comets, do so in the "prograde" direction, i.e. the same sense as the rotation of the Sun.
Also the rotations of most planets are prograde, with the exceptions of Venus and Uranus, which have retrograde rotations.
Most satellites of planets revolve around their planets in the prograde sense. (In the case of the satellites of Uranus, this means they revolve in the same sense as Uranus's rotation, which is retrograde relative to the Sun.) There are some satellites which orbit in the retrograde sense, but these are generally small and distant from their planets, except for Neptune's satellite Triton, which is large and close. It is thought that these retrograde satellites, including Triton, are bodies which have been captured into orbit around their planets, having been formed elsewhere.
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Many light years ago, in another galaxy, it was decided that the planet earth needed a companion. So they hauled an abandoned small planet into orbit around earth and because...