None time

[personalreality]

not when you're on drugs, then they're good for scratching away layers of skin

[Capt. Picard]

I think the moon's own gravitational pull effects Earth also, hence ocean tides. So we need to compensate for that before we decide the moon can just "spin away".

[personalreality]

the moon will spin away.  one of the later moon missions that actually happened put a little mirror on the moon and a laser is shot from earth to measure the distance.  Every year it goes a little further.

This is the nature of the evolution of star systems.  The solar system isn't static.

But if our moon is gone we're in a world of hurt.  It's been hypothesized that we owe our human existence to the moon being there.  It normalized our weather. 

[Capt. Picard]

Interesting. LOL I realize the universe and the solar system isn't static, but the moon has been here for billions of years, and it will probably take billions more for it to finally spin off. You should know by now I think everything evolves, including star systems. I think they theorize the moon was created when another planet may have smashed into earth early in the solar system's evolution, when many more planets were circling the sun with less stable orbits.

[CFTraveler]

Correct, Cap'n.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/moon_mechanics_0303018.html

[Psilibus]

it will be a good thing. just as all things are.

[personalreality]

yea, the sun will have long since died out by the time the moon breaks from earth's gravity

[Enix]

time space WHat a disgrace to those who sleep in waist.

[CFTraveler]

time space WHat a disgrace to those who sleep in waist.

I sleep on my back and my sides, but never on my waist.

[sola~]

I only sleep on my waist in the morning, I'll just roll over and chill there until its time to get ready.