Strong enough to keep tons of water stuck to this globe, but not strong enough to hold down a helium balloon.
Something as weak as a mosquito can easily leave the surface and fly.
Strong enough to keep the moon in its orbit.
Not strong enough turn the pyramids to dust with thousands of years of pull.
Sounds like the ramblings of a lunatic.
Gravity is caused by space and time warping.
The atmosphere has mass and density. Helium balloons have much lower mass and density and therefore float.
I never realized until a few years ago that the Moon is slowly receding away from Earth’s orbit.
sharewhen the moon first formed it was only 15000 miles or so away. it probably covered half the sky.
can you imagine how monstrous the tides were at that time.
The TIDES were probably like TIDAL WAVES at that time.
https://www.insidescience.org/video/what-would-happen-if-there-were-no-moon
(Inside Science TV) -- The moon -- it can appear full, shining like a beacon in the night or just a sliver of a nightlight. Still, it's always there.
But what if we didn't have a moon?
Here's the top five things we would miss without it.
1. Nights would be much, much darker. The next brightest object in the night sky is Venus. But it still wouldn't be enough to light up the sky. A full moon is nearly two thousand times brighter than Venus is at its brightest.
2. Without the moon, a day on earth would only last six to twelve hours. There could be more than a thousand days in one year! That's because the Earth's rotation slows down over time thanks to the gravitational force -- or pull of the moon -- and without it, days would go by in a blink.
3. A moonless earth would also change the size of ocean tides -- making them about one-third as high as they are now.
4. Forget about seeing any lunar eclipses -- or any solar eclipses -- without the moon, there would be nothing to block the sun.
5. Without a moon the tilt of our earth's axis would vary over time. This could create some very wild weather. Right now, thanks to our moon, our axis stays tilted at twenty-three point five degrees. But without the moon the earth might tilt too far over or hardly tilt at all leading to no seasons or even extreme seasons.
Without the moon helping to keep the earth on a steady tilt, scientists have even imagined that life on earth may not have evolved the way we know it.