No postings.

Haven't seen any postings from Beer Maiden for a while!
Has she been abducted?
or
Fallen into the vat?:cheers:

Intelligent life elsewhere in the universe

In my local news paper tonight.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

- Bill Watterson (1958).

Weird Coincedence

I went to the bathroom last night to have a shave, pulled the razer out from under the vanity cabanet, the razer was wet from the leaking s-bend of the waste pipe. So I wiped it dry with a towel and then thought, maybe I should not hang on to it while I plug it in. The socket is RCD protected so what the heck. Just as I inserted the plug into the socket the bathroom light went out, (bugger). Opened the bathroom door and the power was out to the rest of the house,(bugger me). Opened the outside door to go to the fusebox and the whole city was in darkness,(BUGGER ME!).

The Moon!

I did an Google search as to why the Moon does not seem to rotate.
Got lots of returns similiar to the following....


"How it works: If you go out on several different nights and look at the Moon, you will always see the same features, at about the same position. It looks as if the Moon doesn't rotate! Ah, but it does.

This can be seen using a model. Grab two oranges (or apples, or baseballs, or whatever roughly spherical objects you have handy). Mark one with an "X"; this represents a feature on the Moon. Now put the other one down on a table; this is the Earth. Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. Now move the Moon model as if it were orbiting the Earth, taking care to make sure that the X faces the Earth model at all times.

Surprise! You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model. Furthermore, you can see you have to spin it exactly once every orbit to keep the X facing the Earth model. If you don't rotate it, the Moon model will show all of its "sides" to the Earth model as it goes around.

Now, I have been a bit tricky here. We are talking about two different frames of reference; one on the surface of the Earth looking out at the Moon, and one outside the Earth-Moon system looking in. You performed the experiment from the latter frame, and saw the Moon rotating. From the former, however, you can see for yourself the Moon does not rotate. What is being argued here is that in one frame the Moon rotates, in another it does not.

We've actually learned three things:
# 1) the Moon rotates as it orbits the Earth (as seen by an outside observer);
# 2) it rotates one time for every orbit (to that observer); and
# 3) if it didn't rotate, we would eventually see all of the Moon as it orbited the Earth. "


Now my theory goes like this.....

If the moons centre of gravity was in the centre and it didn't rotate, we would see all of the surface of the moon.
Don't confuse the centre of gravity with the moons core, there maybe more mass on the near side than the far so the pull of earths gravity is on the heavier area of mass hence the moon is prevented from spinning.
Now we've all read the transcripts of the Appollo missions where the landing craft was jettersand on the return voyage, fell back to the moon and the siesmic devices recorded echos that reveberated for several hours, this may be due to cavernous areas within the far side of the moon just like the cavernous areas of Earth.
Maybe there are Aliens camped out in those areas!