Re: Lunatic Theory about Planet Allignment

From: Wally Anglesea (wanglese_at_spbigpondammersarevermin.net.au)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:48:20 GMT

"Michael Mcneil" <weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8f717267b606e5d00927d7057cb5854f.45219@mygate.mailgate.org...
> "Saul Levy" <saullevy1@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:f1inp0t3oi7e4k6emm2ldtgijh4f45cqkv@4ax.com
>
>> Special alignments have happened before, and nothing happened. The
>> Jupiter Effect is total nonsense.
>
> So this ( http://www.skywise711.com/astro/index.html#VenusJupiter ) is
> just a coincidence. (With an eruption at Iceland occurring shortly
> afterwards.)

Yes, a coincidence. Not related.

>
> Actually any changes in the earth's orbital position due to alignments
> of the other planets is catered for in Newtonian mechanics, although I
> personally believe that glitches in the three body problem of the earth
> moon and sun are beter explained as weather and seismic activity rather
> than einsdynamism.
>
> One more interesting (to me at least) connundrum is the repetition of
> the phases of the moon and the events at Mt St Helens in the 1980's. But
> then I am a self confessed Lunatic.

Truer words never spoken.

>Just a coincidence was it?
Yes. The position of the planets, and the phases of the moon does not cause
Earthquakes, bad weather, good weather, or volcanic eruptions on Earth.

Similarly, two consecutive full moons in a month (you remember, "Blue
Moons", that you got all twitterpated about) don't have any different
effects than two consecutive full moons at any other time.

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