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Re: CONCULTURE: First thoughts on Ayeri calendar system

From:Erich Kummerfeld <elk03@...>
Date:Monday, November 15, 2004, 21:16
I don't know for certain but I would hold the moon's heavily cratered surface
as evidence that it may be playing/has played/will continue to play a role in
filtering out large cosmic bodies that come flying our way.

Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:

> Quoting Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...>: > > > On Monday 15 November 2004 10:36, Chris Bates wrote: > > [more moons & planets & orbits & tides] > > > different, perhaps you should have no moons? A world without tides and > > > without the moon at night would be interesting. :) > > > > I've thought about that, too. But, if the Earth didn't have the moon, > we'd > > probably have 10 hour days, very high winds, all sorts of "unearthly" > > weather, and probably far far more meteor craters. Though, perhaps > Jupiter > > would have been enough to filter out the meteors. > > I don't see how the Moon would deflect any considerable proportion of > potential > impactors. Am I missing something? > > Andreas >

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