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Originally posted by CookieRevised
However, sometimes some planets do lign up (a few years ago there was such a line up of some objects I thought, earth moon mars or something) And yes they cause some extra gravity and thus high tides become extra high tides (or whatever it is called in English) and chances that vulcano's errupt are bigger, etc...
I'm afraid that you are wrong, CookieRevised.
Moon has twice as much tidal force that Sun has, and, Venus, the first planet that contributes the biggest tidal force on Earth after Sun, only contributes 0.01% of Sun's tidal force on ocean tides.
If all 9 planets were to align perfectly, it only adds 0.04 mm on the ocean tides.
So, the contribution of planet are negligible.
If Sun and moon have greater tidal forces than other planets have, why don't people worry when there is an lunar or solar ecllipse?
As I said before, planetary alignment is just one of natural phenomena.
The only reason that makes it special is its rarity.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
* As a matter of fact, now (unfortunatly after the events) they are going to implement such a warning system, developped and teached by Belgium people btw.
Yeah, people only learn from mistakes.
People, the cause of the last earthquake was the plate shifting.
Actually, it was already predicted by some scientist at University of California - Davis in as early as 2000.
They (the researchers) used computer models of past quakes and said there would be an earthquake with a magnitude 7 or grater in a 10-year period ending in 2010.
So, stop thinking the quake was caused by planetary alignment and aliens.
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