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Lizard Breath
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Message 1 of 17 (88212)
02-23-2004 6:41 PM


I was reading some information on a creationist website about the way that the Earth's enviorment is constructed and the number of variables that have to be tweeked to such a fine degree that if any of them were out of alignment by a small percent, life on this planet - as we know it now - would be impossible.
I am curious although not instructed in this area to answer my own question, but what if the Earth had 2 moons instead of just one. I am wondering if the earth had a second moon that was 20% further away from the Earth along with the current one and it was just large enough to have the same gravitational effects that our current moon has. I don't know the math that would go into calculating the mass that this moon would need to be to achieve this, but if our planet had this arrangement of multiple moons, could the Earth still support life as it is today?
For arguments sake, I'll assume that both moons are in the same rotational plane and the closer leads the farther by 120 degrees.

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Lizard Breath
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Message 4 of 17 (88227)
02-23-2004 8:01 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Sylas
02-23-2004 6:59 PM


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Evolution leads to organisms that are finely adapted for their environment. If the environment was different, then life would be different as well. You can take that as saying life as we know it would be impossible if you like.
So it is entirely possible that every other planet in every solar system in the universe does have life on it but because of the different enviorments, it is impossible for us to catalog it as life because of our exclusive familiarity of our own enviorment.
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As an even more minor aside, you can't have a closer moon leading by a fixed number of degrees. The orbital periods would be different.
Would it be possible if the further moon had a faster orbital speed which kept it at the same distance from the inner moon?

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Lizard Breath
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Message 7 of 17 (88236)
02-23-2004 8:29 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by JonF
02-23-2004 8:13 PM


Good link
Is it more a possibility then to have a sister planet to the earth orbiting at the exact opposite point to us so as to always be hidden behind the Sun. I know we would be able to detect it's gravitational impact on the other inner planets but it sounds like that could have happened easier then for the earth to have 2 large moons orbiting around it.

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Lizard Breath
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Message 11 of 17 (88267)
02-23-2004 10:28 PM
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02-23-2004 8:37 PM


Adam's first wife?
If this second moon is invisible, is it as close to the earth and is it made out of the same matter only coal black, or is it made out of Dark material like the mass of the universe?
Was Eve Adam's second wife or does this other moons name mean the same thing as Eve.
How did they know about a second moon. They're not refering to that tiny black moon that revolves around mars are they?

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