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How will the planet end?

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How will the planet end?
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RE: How will the planet end?
August 20, 2015 at 4:06 am
Not only could you line up all the planets in the solar system without destroying the Earth, you could bring in twice as many planets (I'm pretty sure you can get them on Amazon), line them up, and STILL have a negligible effect on the Earth.

The Moon is our closest neighbour in space, so let's set the gravitational attraction between the Earth and the Moon at 1 (arbitrarily, I don't care to look up the math). This gives Jupiter, an attraction of .01 and a tidal force of .000006. In fact, ALL of the objects in the solar system combined (bar the Sun) exert a total gravitational attraction on Earth of a little less than 2% of Luna's. The total tidal forces would be something on the close order of about 5/100 000ths of 1% of Luna's.

The technical term for eschatology of this sort is 'ignorance'.

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How will the planet end?

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How will the planet end? - by Aoi Magi - August 20, 2015 at 3:26 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Longhorn - August 20, 2015 at 3:32 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by ignoramus - August 20, 2015 at 3:45 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 20, 2015 at 3:47 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 20, 2015 at 4:06 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by ignoramus - August 20, 2015 at 4:27 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Aoi Magi - August 20, 2015 at 4:13 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 4:29 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Alex K - August 20, 2015 at 4:31 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 4:37 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Aoi Magi - August 20, 2015 at 4:40 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 20, 2015 at 4:38 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 4:41 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Napoléon - August 20, 2015 at 5:45 am
RE: How will the planet end? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 1:54 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Aoi Magi - August 20, 2015 at 2:31 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by TheRealJoeFish - August 20, 2015 at 2:45 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Aoi Magi - August 20, 2015 at 2:51 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Ayen - August 20, 2015 at 1:58 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 2:37 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Minimalist - August 20, 2015 at 4:11 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Ayen - August 20, 2015 at 5:36 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 5:56 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Ayen - August 20, 2015 at 6:05 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 6:28 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Minimalist - August 20, 2015 at 2:11 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Jackie - August 20, 2015 at 2:34 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by abaris - August 20, 2015 at 3:03 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Jackalope - August 20, 2015 at 3:26 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by The Valkyrie - August 20, 2015 at 4:19 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by ignoramus - August 20, 2015 at 5:42 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by The Valkyrie - August 20, 2015 at 5:43 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by Iroscato - August 20, 2015 at 5:46 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by KevinM1 - August 20, 2015 at 11:52 pm
RE: How will the planet end? - by ignoramus - August 21, 2015 at 12:28 am

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