@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
Ah yes, Mr. Science, who can drive from Boston to Rochester in five hours, a distance he describes as 396 miles, with two stops for food and fuel, no less! If your math, or your honesty, are not better than that, your alleged credentials don't impress me.
Frank, one of the most simple-minded bullies here, was attempting to argue from analogy (look that up, if you have to). What he described, i.e., the relationship of the Moon to the Earth, and that of the Earth to the Sun, are not analogous. The moon being tidally locked is significant as he was attempting to argue, in his feeble-minded and hectoring manner, about the relationship of Charon to Pluto. See Oralloy's subsequent remarks, including sources, on the relationship of those two bodies to one another.
Nonsense. What Frank wrote was correct as far as it went, and he made no claim that there were no other factors involved. . Specifically he did not address the tidal issue you noted at all. Moreover it was tangential to his comment, which focused only on the proximity of the two bodies.
If you are looking for an error in what someone posts here (or merely an omission, whether meaningful or merely outside the point or observation being made ) you can usually find one - as you did in this case.
The sneering was undeserved and unneccessary.
