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Originally posted by HowardRoark
has been proven to be false
Originally posted by HowardRoark
Most of it is a self fufiling prophesy.
If you expect to see certain behavior on a full moon, then you will even if it is the same behavior you saw the week before.
Originally posted by LadyV
EDIT: Sorry, I had only read the original post....Personally, I don't care what "studies" say.....I know my self and I know what I have experienced throughout life...
[edit on 2/23/2005 by LadyV]
Originally posted by csulli456
. Everyone new it, the doctors nurses and all of the other staff.
Originally posted by MickeyDee
Id never even heard of this until reading this thread, but have found some scary facts on murder etc during a full moon.
Check this out!
www.innerself.com...
Originally posted by HowardRoark
I know that, statistically, the claim that “things get wacky around a full moon” has been proven to be false, yet tonight is a full moon and there does seem to be an inordinate number of truly bizarre and whacked out posts on ATS today.
Misconceptions about such things as the moon's effect on tides have contributed to lunar mythology. Many people seem to think that since the moon affects the ocean's tides, it must be so powerful that it affects the human body as well. The lunar force is actually a very weak tidal force. A mother holding her child "will exert 12 million times as much tidal force on her child as the moon" (Kelly et al., 1996: 25). Astronomer George O. Abell claims that a mosquito would exert more gravitational pull on your arm than the moon would (Abell 1979). Despite these physical facts, there is still widespread belief that the moon can cause earthquakes.* It doesn't; nor does the sun, which exerts much less tidal force on the earth than the moon.
The fact that the human body is mostly water largely contributes to the notion that the moon should have a powerful effect on the human body and therefore an effect on behavior. It is claimed by many that the earth and the human body both are 80% water. This is false. Eighty percent of the surface of the earth is water. Furthermore, the moon only affects unbounded bodies of water, while the water in the human body is bounded.
Also, the tidal force of the moon on the earth depends on its distance from earth, not its phase. Whereas the synodic period is 29.53 days, it takes 27.5 days for the moon to move in its elliptical orbit from perigee to perigee (or apogee to apogee). Perigee (when the moon is closest to earth) "can occur at any phase of the synodic cycle" (Kelly et al. 1990: 989). Higher tides do occur at new and full moons, but not because the moon's gravitational pull is stronger at those times. Rather, the tides are higher then because "the sun, earth, and moon are in a line and the tidal force of the sun joins that of the moon at those times to produce higher tides" (ibid.: 989).
Many of the misconceptions about the moon's gravitational effect on the tides, as well as several other lunar misconceptions, seem to have been generated by Arnold Lieber in The Lunar Effect (1978), republished in 1996 as How the Moon Affects You. In The Lunar Effect, Lieber incorrectly predicted a catastrophic earthquake would hit California in 1982 due to the coincidental alignment of the moon and planets. Undeterred by the fact that no such earthquake had occurred, Lieber did not admit his error in the later book. In fact, he repeated his belief about the dangers of planet alignments and wrote that they "may trigger another great California earthquake." This time he didn't predict when.