12-04-2009, 09:14 PM
2/3 of the Earth is covered by water. The human body is about 80% water. The moons gravitational pull controls the tides of our oceans by pulling on our water making the tides rise and fall.
However, there is no real world data to suggest that a full moon has any influence on peoples behavior. Regardless of what phase the moon is in, its gravitational pull on our "bodies" of water does not change when it is over our heads. Whether it full or in its individual phases. I have to side with the idea that its is nothing more then a thought planted in our heads that we perceive things happen during a full moon because we are hyper sensitive to the possibility or idea that somehow it influences our behavior. It's all superstition. Nothing more.
It is hypothesized that the Earth as we know it was created by a collision with a sister planet in the same orbit known as Theia. After the collision much of Theia combined with the Earth making it larger, giving our planet a larger iron core and increasing the heat of the Earth's geologic interior. The remnants of Thea became our Moon.
The moon is also moving away from the Earth at a rate of roughly 2-3 centimeters per year. In about 4 billion years it will drift away into outer space. I doubt any humans will be around to see that happen though.
However, there is no real world data to suggest that a full moon has any influence on peoples behavior. Regardless of what phase the moon is in, its gravitational pull on our "bodies" of water does not change when it is over our heads. Whether it full or in its individual phases. I have to side with the idea that its is nothing more then a thought planted in our heads that we perceive things happen during a full moon because we are hyper sensitive to the possibility or idea that somehow it influences our behavior. It's all superstition. Nothing more.
It is hypothesized that the Earth as we know it was created by a collision with a sister planet in the same orbit known as Theia. After the collision much of Theia combined with the Earth making it larger, giving our planet a larger iron core and increasing the heat of the Earth's geologic interior. The remnants of Thea became our Moon.
The moon is also moving away from the Earth at a rate of roughly 2-3 centimeters per year. In about 4 billion years it will drift away into outer space. I doubt any humans will be around to see that happen though.