Questions . . . .

[MrFun]

Why does Wolf Blitzer talk like a robot on CNN?


What would Earth be like without a moon?


Why am I the only Cher fan on Apolyton?


Is Alf real or a puppet?


When will the next earthquake strike the midwest region of United States? (last one was during War of 1812)


Why do we admire the sunrise/sunset by looking directly at it, but it's dangerous to look at it any other part of the day?


Why is the stick-out-tongue smilie Imran's favorite smilie?


How big is your palm pilot and how often do you play with it?

[Frankychan]

1. BECAUSE HE IS!!!!

2. Earth wouldn't have the kick-a** surf that it does now!

3. .....Um, I don't think i can answer that one, buddy...

4. Of course Alf is real! He wouldn't be doing those 10-10 whatever commercials man!

5. I think my charges are set to go off in 2014, but I could be wrong...

6. Because most people are retards and would look at the sun anyway.

7. Sexual connotations?

8. Hmmmmm....I don't want to get you jealous...

[MrFun]

I'm aware of the moon's effect on the tides -- I learned that in grade school.

I was just wondering if anything SIGNIFICANT would be affected by lack of a moon.

[Frankychan]

Wha??? And no surf is NOT significant to you!

SACRILIGIOUS, I tell you!!!

[KrazyHorse]

Tidal pools are likely where life first developed, or so I've heard.

[KrazyHorse]

Also, women's menstrual cycles would almost certainly not be what they are (they're correllated to a lunar cycle in many higher mammals, AFAIK.

[KrazyHorse]

The day would also be shorter than it is now.

[The Mad Monk]

Lunar tidal forces are very important.

Aside from the obvious ("tides"), they have caused the Earth's rotation to greatly slow over time, and stabilized Earth's wobble such that it is now a very stable, 20,000 year cycle -- instead of the chaos that marks the rotational wobble of other worlds.

[The Mad Monk]

KH, shouldn't you be very drunk right now?

[KrazyHorse]

Why?

[KrazyHorse]

I got very drunk last night. Tonight I'm marking the last of the ****ing assignments of this year.

[Kirnwaffen]

Let's not forget the importance of the tides in shipping (both early exploratory and modern commercial). And the reason you're the only Cher fan on Apolyton is because of poor taste.

[The Mad Monk]

Oh, okay -- it was the last thing I remember you saying after that take home test.

[Dis]

only gay men like cher.

And without the moon there would be no human life on Earth.

[connorkimbro]

I wonder if we'd have spaceflight now, if not for the moon?

Say, for example, two 12 year old boys are walking through the woods, and they come across a big ditch, maybe 10 feet across. And the one says to the other "I bet you can't jump across it!" and the other says to the one "Sure I can, maybe not today, but eventually I can!"

And so the boy trains and trains, and eventually, he jumps across.

Now, imagine those same two boys, but instead of coming up to a 10 foot wide ditch, they come up to the grand canyon. And the first boy says "I bet you can't jump across it!" and the second boy says "You're right, I can't!" and they both go home and play video games.


I think you can see what I'm getting at.