Moonpocalypse Then
These fear mongers point out at all the different times in which the so-called SuperMoon brought disaster to Earth, according to them. They say the lunar perigee caused the New England hurricane in 1938, the Hunter Valley floods in 1955, Cyclone Tracy in Darwin, Australia, in 1974, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Oh, and the 2005 Tsunami in Indonesia, which happened two weeks before the lunar perigee, but nevermind. It’s close enough.
Of course, the SuperMoon experts forgot about all the disasters that happened nowhere near the lunar perigee. You know, the disasters that keep happening all year around, every single bloody year. Where was the lunar perigee when hurricane Andrew struck Florida in 1992? Or when Haiti was reduced to shambles by the 2010 earthquake? Or during the 9.5 magnitude 1960 earthquake in Valdivia, Chile? It was on holidays, in a nice beach in Santorini, having grilled sardines and fresh white wine, that’s where.
The fact is that, if there are any disasters around March 19, they will not be caused by the moon – which is actually progressively spiralling away from Earth at a rate of 38mm per year. They will just happen because natural disasters happen. Like the astronomer Pete Wheeler at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy says: “There will be no earthquakes or volcanoes erupting, unless they are to happen anyway [...]just a lower than usual low tide and a higher than usual high tide around the time of the event, but nothing to get excited about.”
And even while some scientists think the moon’s gravity may trigger Earthquakes, pointing at some yet-to-be-proved correlation between full moons, new moons, and Earth, the fact is that there’s no impending Moonpocalypse. But it doesn’t matter, because there will always be some morons that, if anything happens, would say: “I told you so!” [news.com.au
Danny
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 8:25 AMWE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jay
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 8:49 AMMr Diaz, thank you for your continued good work online. Your mix of humor and common-sense is downright refreshing, always look forward to your posts.
huu
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 9:01 AM“..because there will always be some morons that..” For thousand of years these Apocalyptic morons always find new ways of making fools of themselves and get it wrong every single time. Even though the moon move closer (Perigee) and away (apogee) from earth in cycle, in average it actually moving away from earth at about 1.5inch per year. So people who thinks moon going to smash into earth oneday are idiots.
Tim
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 9:37 AM” And even while some scientists think the moon’s gravity may trigger Earthquakes, pointing at some yet-to-be-proved correlation between full moons, new moons, and Earth”
What? Surely if there’s a correlation there it has very little to do with the sun’s light
Furiosu Mark
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 1:00 PMMeh…
What about the Qld Floods and Cyclone don’t forget about NZ earthquakes the the volcanoes. ALL CAUSED BY MOON. Maybe.
olearymo
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 9:53 PMWe ARE all gonna die. Every single one of us will die.
Eventually.
nanthan
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 8:29 PMYes.
We are all going to die.
eventually.
only TO BE REBRON here.
Till we find our salvation
Till then, the game will go on – Forever(till end of time)
Brett
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:11 PM8.9 Quake hits Japan. Coincidence?
dave
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 10:52 PMUm, looks like you were wrong buddy
Frank
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 2:07 AMDo you wanna rethink your position?
Nathaniel Kwong
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 5:26 PMthats crap the article says around the 19th thats a week away
r35
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 11:10 PMWow, coincidence? Glad i am not the author…
Danny
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:47 PMTold ya we all gonna die…
Travis
Monday, March 21, 2011 at 3:32 AMHow bout we blow up the moon before it gets closer to the Earth so that we can all stay alive,How bout that?