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Why do full moons make people go crazy? Or do they?

 
 
Letty
 
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Reply Thu 5 Aug, 2004 05:42 pm
Well, Craven. I suppose you will dispute that more boy babies are born during wartime than during times of peace. Believe me I have been on the beach at high tide, and the moon never beams without bringing me dreams, etc..etc..etc...
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 5 Aug, 2004 06:26 pm
The moon exerts no more gravity at the full than at other times, surely????!!!

"Fullness" is to do with the moon's relationship to the sun as seen from the earth, not the moon being closer or nearer????
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 5 Aug, 2004 06:27 pm
Babies and war has to do with sex and death!!!
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 5 Aug, 2004 06:43 pm
Well, Deb. Then why are folks so concerned with the dunes at high tide? When a hurricane occurs here and when the moon is full at the same time, the water comes up over A1A. I don't know one damn thing about physics or lunar stuff, but I know what I see, and the tide rises and the tide falls. then, of course, there is neap tide.

We all understand about the baby boomers, but we often don't understand about the process that governs the birth of children. The mysteries of the universe are yet to be told, and who is to say that science and physics governs anything.
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 5 Aug, 2004 10:00 pm
Letty wrote:
Well, Craven. I suppose you will dispute that more boy babies are born during wartime than during times of peace.


Why?

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Believe me I have been on the beach at high tide, and the moon never beams without bringing me dreams, etc..etc..etc...


I'm puttin' the word out, "Letty gets randy under the moonlight".
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 6 Aug, 2004 02:08 am
Well, BoatSafeKids has easy to understand explanations about tide and moon and sun ... :wink:
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Fri 6 Aug, 2004 02:16 am
In Napoli where love is king
When boy meets girl here's what they say

When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie
That's amore
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine
That's amore
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay tarantella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool
That's amore
When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli
That's amore

(When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie
That's amore
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine
That's amore
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay tarantella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool)
That's amore
(When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli)
That's amore
Lucky fella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool)
That's amore
(When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli)
That's amore, (amore)
That's amore
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Letty
 
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Reply Fri 6 Aug, 2004 09:32 am
Gets randy, Craven? Is that a movie sequel to Get Shorty? Laughing

Cav, what's a canajun doing singing Italian stuff?

Walter, doesn't Isaac Newton come in there somewhere, or perhaps Isaac Walton? Razz
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 6 Aug, 2004 09:41 am
No. Letty, but Warrant Officer Walter Hinteler, navigator (res. ret.) in the 1st Landingcraft Squadron and 6th Minesweeper Squadron German Navy Laughing
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Letty
 
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Reply Fri 6 Aug, 2004 09:48 am
Oh, my Gawd, Walter. That's right. I totally forgot:

Blue, navy blue, I'm as blue as I can be
'cause my steady boy said "Ship ahoy"
And joined the Nay-ee-ay-vee

He said he wanted to settle down
And let me be his girl
But first he had to do a little travelin' around
And see the whole wide world

That's why I'm
CHORUS

I got a letter yesterday from Tokyo
And a souvenir
A walky-talky wind-up little China doll
That says "Wish you were here"

CHORUS

He's comin' home to see me on a weekend pass
A forty-eight hour day-ate
That boat he's sailin' on just better get here fast
'cause I can hardly wait

Till then I'm
CHORUS
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Eccles
 
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Reply Tue 14 Sep, 2004 11:08 am
Smile Bloooooooooooooooooooooooooood
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Foxfyre
 
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Reply Wed 15 Sep, 2004 08:55 pm
I don't know about ovulation cycles, but from time to time I have worked for hospitals. The head nurse in the obstretrics wing knew to schedule extra help during a full moon to handle the unusual high rates of births that usually occurred.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 15 Sep, 2004 08:58 pm
Letty, Dean Martin is Canadian?
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 16 Sep, 2004 01:53 am
Foxfyre wrote:
I don't know about ovulation cycles, but from time to time I have worked for hospitals. The head nurse in the obstretrics wing knew to schedule extra help during a full moon to handle the unusual high rates of births that usually occurred.


Birth rates are not statistically affected by full moons.
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Foxfyre
 
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Reply Thu 16 Sep, 2004 09:30 am
CDG writes:
Quote:
Birth rates are not statistically affected by full moons.


Maybe you're right, but you would never convince
those head nurses who rarely found they had
more staff than they needed.
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 16 Sep, 2004 09:32 am
Similarly, I might never convince a buddy of mine that he was not visted by aliens...

Nevertheless, strength of conviction is no substitute for veracity.
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 16 Sep, 2004 09:48 am
It was my understanding, Fox and CDK, that the gravitational forces of a full moon is what created incipient labor of women approaching full term.

Good excuse for a Labor party. <groan>
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 16 Sep, 2004 09:55 am
Craven de Kere wrote:
Letty wrote:
Walter, I think the gravitational pull of the full moon accounts for women going into labor at this time. Don't know about the rest of the effects.


From Walter's link:

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Misconceptions about such things as the moon's effect on tides have contributed to lunar mythology. Many people seem to think that since the moon affects the ocean's tides, it must be so powerful that it affects the human body as well. The lunar force is actually a very weak tidal force. A mother holding her child "will exert 12 million times as much tidal force on her child as the moon" (Kelly et al., 1996: 25). Astronomer George O. Abell claims that a mosquito would exert more gravitational pull on your arm than the moon would (Abell 1979).
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 16 Sep, 2004 09:58 am
oops, sorry. Barometer rising. Forgot where I was.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 16 Sep, 2004 04:48 pm
Again - how is the gravitational force of a full moon greater than that of any other moon?

"Fullness" is about the relationship of the moon with the light from the sun, as seen from the earth.

I can only imagine gravitational pull being greater if the moon is closer to earth when "full" than at other times???????? How does this work???
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