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Planet Earth From A Higher Perspective W/ Alan Stern #329

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The Moon's Tidal Pull

The tides go up and down every day in some places. The sloshing back and forth of the earth's oceans on a global scale creates friction with the solid earth, changes the speed at which the earth is rotating over long periods of time. And those two things ultimately synchronize until there's no stress any more. There's no residual tidal forces. This is just basic gravitational physics writ large on the universeyes, yet's really interesting.

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