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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Mon Mar 9, 2015, 12:47 PM Mar 2015

How Earth Gets Its High And Low Tides

How Earth Gets Its High And Low Tides

Is something besides the moon at play in Earth's tides? You might be surprised.

Watch video:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/videos/how-earth-gets-its-high-and-low-tides-video-150224.htm

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How Earth Gets Its High And Low Tides (Original Post) Panich52 Mar 2015 OP

silly, don't you know: "tide goes in, tide goes out, nobody can explain that"--well niyad Mar 2015 #1

When I heard Mr Falafel say it, my immediate thought was Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2015 #2

personally, I think he was absent (at least mentally) throughout his entire schooling. niyad Mar 2015 #3

niyad

(113,455 posts)

1. silly, don't you know: "tide goes in, tide goes out, nobody can explain that"--well

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:01 PM

Mar 2015

at least ole loofah boy can't.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)

2. When I heard Mr Falafel say it, my immediate thought was

Reply to niyad (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 07:08 AM

Mar 2015

"Obviously, he was absent on that day his junior high school science teacher talked about tides." I certainly remember my 7th grade science teacher giving essentially the same explanation that the video did, and that was in 1960 or 61.

niyad

(113,455 posts)

3. personally, I think he was absent (at least mentally) throughout his entire schooling.

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 09:32 PM

Mar 2015

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