Does The Moon And Other Planets' Gravitational Force Impact Earth?

[abqtommy]

Short answer: The sun and the moon have the greatest tidal effects on the earth.

Long answer: see the link:

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/does-the-moons-and-other-planets-gravitational-force-impact-earth.html

And keep on howling; I know I will!

NOTE: I posted the above as a reply in another thread* but decided it needed to be
its own op.

* https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215875655

[kentuck]

1. Does it have an impact on human bodies,also, since...?

...human bodies are mostly water also?

[abqtommy]

2. I dunno. We haven't covered that in class yet. ;O) I am aware that moonlight has

been known to increase the attractiveness of persons who go out in June to spoon by
the light of the moon.

[tavernier]

4. Just ask the ER staff

what happens on night of full moon…

[lagomorph777]

7. Yes, you are attracted to the moon (in a minuscule amount).

The Moon attracts you about 1/300,000th as much as the Earth does.

If you weigh 150lbs, this would be a force of about 0.008 ounce.

[Mariana]

3. Tides go in, tides, go out...

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

5. I'm a moon child, I am affected by its influence, and I like gold and emeralds and buttermilk

What does it all mean?

[abqtommy]

6. Sounds to me like it means you're a very normal person.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

8. Awwww, you're so kind... and I make my own smoothies, I feel special

[Binkie The Clown]

9. The gravitational force on you from a person standing next to you...

...is greater than the force from all the other planets put together. Remember the inverse square law. Every mass, including that person standing next to you, exerts gravitational force, but that force decreases so quickly over distance that the influence from distant planets gets completely swamped under the much stronger force from a small mass very close by.

Work out the equations for yourself.

[edhopper]

10. Thanks Binkie

can't believe the amount of woo being spewed on DU.

[edhopper]

11. The effect of gravity between large celestial bodies

and the on very small things on those bodies have little to no correlation.

I have yet to hear a cogent theory of the moon or planets effect on people. Actually studies of this do not show an affect.

[Binkie The Clown]

12. There was a time some 45 or 50 years ago when I was prepared to take astrology seriously.

I thought I'd be unbiased and give it a fair chance, so I studied it in depth. I don't mean just reading the horoscope in the Sunday paper. I dug into the math of it; serious math. There are a dozen or more ways of calculating the divisions between the houses when casting a chart, each with it's own convoluted justification. Then there are latitude corrections. The lines dividing the house shift around as a birthplace is closer to, or further from the poles. Then once the chart is cast, how to read meaning into it? What do the various planets, moon, and sun signify in each house of the chart. And which really makes more difference, the sun sign, the moon sign, or as many professionals believe, the ascendant.

Then there's contrasting the natal chart with the progressed chart, ad what is their relatives significance?

I applied the best statistical tools at my disposal (I was a grad student in the computer science dept of a major university at the time). I was really excited about my project, and I really wanted it to be successful. Alas, after a year of sincere "suspension of disbelief" and unbiased digging and probing, I was forced, against my will, and kicking and screaming, to admit to myself that astrology is a huge steaming pile of excrement. It made me sad to have to admit it. I was going through some tough times and looking for guidance. But in the end, I had to go where the facts lead me.

(I could have avoided wasting all that time if I had just realized at the outset that as a Virgo with Scorpio ascending I was far too skeptical to ever believe in astrology)

[edhopper]

13. That is compendable

too many continue to deceive themselves because of the time they put in.

And of course, no one has ever offered up a valid scientific theory of how astrology could work.

Said theory would have to align with what we know about astronomy, biology and psychiatry.