Re: CONCULTURE: First thoughts on Ayeri calendar system

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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