Contrary to the claims made on other Israeli websites, there is no connection between the approach of the moon to the nearest point in its orbit in the event that it is full and earthquakes
People like order in the world and are not ready to accept it as random, so many have caught a bargain that on Friday, March 19 the moon will be at the closest point to the earth since the early nineties when it is also full. Add one and another and you get as if the earthquake in Japan was caused by this seemingly important celestial phenomenon. And one more thing, it's a shame that instead of following The nuclear meltdown that despite the approximately 1,500 deaths from the earthquake and the tsunami, it appears to be a dangerous event, the Israeli science website should waste resources on this nonsense.
We hereby bring selected excerpts from Tami Plotner's writing March 19, 2011… “SuperMoon” or “SuperHype”? On the Universe Today website and further referring to us, if it makes a difference, the article was published before the earthquake, but The site refers to this in a newer news item And of course it clarifies for the sake of eliminating doubt if anyone (with scientific literacy) had any doubts about this - that there is no connection between the approach of the moon and the earthquake in Japan. Continue my comments - at the end of the article. Avi Blizovsky
Below is Tammy Plotner's article
"Does an astrological prediction according to which we will have a super moon, meaning a combination of phenomena that in themselves are not so rare - of a full moon and of a relative approach to the earth, also threaten disaster or is it nothing more than an attempt to excite our natural senses to love the glamorous and scary stories." asks Plotner.
"On March 19, 2011, the Moon will pass at a distance of 356,577 kilometers from the Earth - the closest distance in 18 years. In my world, this is known as the Phrygia of the Moon. Every month the moon reaches Phrygia, and at this point it is on average 364,397 kilometers away. According to astrologer Richard Knoll, the month coming closer than usual will cause a phenomenon he calls an Extreme SuperMoon. He first claimed the term in Horoscope magazine of Dell Publishing in 1979. From an astronomical technical point of view, it is a phrygia-syzygous, meaning a new moon or a full moon that occurs when the moon is in phrygia (the closest point in its orbit to the earth) or near it."
It is indeed scientifically true that when the moon is in Phrygia we feel a stronger pull from it, which creates tidal waves with a significant difference between high and low tides. In addition, the tidal waves of the Sun's gravitational field increase the eccentricity of the Moon's orbit when the main axis of the orbit is in line with the vector of the Earth and the Sun. Especially, when the moon is full or new.
We are all aware of the Earth's tidal surge. The tide follows the moon and the earth's movement under the tide continues during the day. However, the rotation of the Earth pulls the position of the tidal waves forward under the Moon. They create the tidal phenomenon as we know it, but are the tides stronger when the moon is closer. If you ask geologists they will say no. Even if you ask astronomers, they will tell you that like everything astrological, they will explain that there is no connection between extreme phenomena on Earth and the pull of the Moon, just as no event on Earth has any connection to one or another state of the heavenly bodies. The American Meteorological Organization also commented that if there is such a connection, it is particularly indirect - through the effect of tidal waves on ocean currents that transport heat towards the poles, but this force is added to other forces, some of which are opposite and may cause climate change."
(Translator's note, in the next paragraph where Plotner quotes the astrologer, many strange terms appear, such as the geo-cosmic risk, don't worry, these are not scientific terms and there is no need to remember them, these are words that the quoted astrologer uses to wrap up his nonsense).
"Super moons are noteworthy due to their connection with extreme tidal forces of what the astrologers of the past would have called the terrestrial world or the sublunary world: the atmosphere, the earth's crust and the oceans of our world including ourselves of course. From extreme tidal waves on the beaches to huge storms, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Our entire natural world rumbled and roared at the dictates of the supermoon alignment. Within three days before and after the maximum approach, as a general rule" Noll says and added that: "In any case, this will not be the case where all hell will break loose and break out on Earth during the days surrounding the Super Moon phenomenon. For most of us, geocosmic risk increases during the supermoon alignment but this will pass without affecting our immediate environment. However, the Earth is a spacious planet in spite of everything, but the fact remains that the phenomenon of the supermoon is a phenomenon on a global scale, and is a special alignment of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon, and therefore there will be no place on the Earth that will benefit from the consequences of the phenomenon."
If you have had the time and patience to follow Noll's work, you can see that he does not believe that volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur all over the planet except in disaster-prone areas such as the famous Ring of Fire on the Pacific Plate."
What will really happen during this extreme supermoon? For someone who has experienced two blizzards followed by an overnight tornado and a week of flooding in Ohio, the only thing that will happen to them is that the moon will be about 30% brighter and about 15% larger than a normal full moon. If I were an astrophotographer, I would go out and photograph this full moon and compare it with the full moons in the following months. That's pretty much what the super full moon means, nothing more and nothing less than that.
We didn't mean to spoil the celebration for the astrologers. Some of the great astronomers of the past were also astrologers. In order to specialize in both aspects, one needs to know our solar system well, the movements of the bodies in it and the relationship between them in the dome of the sky. The only thing that disturbs though is that there is no logical explanation why a movement that is normal would cause chaos on the planet. Plotner concludes.
Goddard Center Chief Scientist: The effect is negligible
Dr. Jim Garvin, the Chief Scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was interviewed by Universe Today and answered questions regarding the "Super Moon" phenomenon
Question: What is the definition of Super Moon and why is he called that?
Garvin: "A super moon is a situation where the moon is slightly close and happens to be at its full moon so that the moon appears large even though the difference between the distances at its closest and at its furthest is a few percent. It is called Super Moon because of the alignment between the Earth, the Moon and the Sun on its surface that appears to have an effect. The word super in super moon only indicates that it looks bigger but only if we measure the distance between the earth and the moon with a laser meter (as we do to track the LRO spacecraft in low orbit above the moon, which made us track the distance of the moon for years - no no difference
The supermoon phenomenon is supported by the wealth of new information that the LRO mission has transmitted to us, raising new and more important key questions about our nearest neighbor."
Are there any negative effects on the Earth due to the relative proximity of the Moon?
Garvin: The effects on the Earth from the Super Moon phenomenon are negligible and according to the latest studies by seismologists and volcanologists, the combination of the Moon being close to the Earth in its orbit and the configuration of the full Moon (relative to the Earth and the Sun) should not affect the energy balance because errors are a daily phenomenon. The Earth has stored enormous amounts of internal energy in its outer shell, and the small differences in tidal forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun are not sufficient to overcome the much larger forces within the Earth resulting from convection and other aspects of the internal energy balance that drives plate tectonics. Moreover, the supermoon phenomenon reminds us of the influence our celestial neighbor has on our lives, from tidal waves to cultural aspects, as proof that our planet is part of the solar system and space.”
The editor's note of the science site.
That's it for Tami Plotner's article. She deserves compliments for the investment in this article, as well as her colleagues on the site for the patience they have to explain yet another meaningless phenomenon that has become global hysteria - 2012. And now to the question of whether there is a connection between this phenomenon and the earthquake in Japan? Well, first of all we will recruit the astrologer who claimed that the extreme phenomena will occur within a period of three days before and after the celestial phenomenon, and here we have a distance of a week (it is not clear here about the three days, he probably just wanted to appear serious, since during most of this time the moon will not be closer than a few days each month).
Second, every month the moon approaches more or less the same distance (a few thousand kilometers has no meaning, it's less than a fraction of a percent), it is true that this does not always happen when the moon is full or at birth, but these days have no meaning other than a combination of two cyclical phenomena that at some stage are meeting As Plotner said, the earthquakes are distributed as far as we are concerned, randomly along the fault lines between the plates, they do not wait for the moon and do not follow it.
And another note, this time about News from Channel 2 news that appeared on Reshet and Mako websites. which stated unequivocally that the earthquake in Japan is due to the approach of the moon. "For a week, the moon will approach in front of our star, which may cause weather-related disruptions and disasters. The moon will be 356,578 kilometers away on March 19. The Moon will be at its closest point to Earth in the last 18 years. Researchers, forecasters and amateur astronomers warn that the proximity between the moon and the earth may create difficult conditions all over the world - from earthquakes to destructive tsunami waves."
Who are those researchers and amateur astronomers, there is no answer on the website, you probably have to look for them on YouTube, because among the professional and amateur astronomers there is no one who thinks so, and as I explained above, there is no sense in this even among astrologers. Who are the forecasters here? Channel 2 brings the following quote: "The British forecaster of the Sky network, John Catley, said: the proximity of the moon may create extreme tidal conditions that may affect the settlements along the coasts in extreme weather conditions - the results may be devastating" . Indeed, in the difficult events we witnessed today, you can see enormous damages and heavy losses in the soul." That is, they took an explanation for a certain phenomenon, and projected it onto a phenomenon stronger than it by several orders of magnitude. It's like taking a first grade boy who managed to score a basket for the first time in sports class and immediately putting him in the first team of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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There is a saying that the past is depressing, the future is stressful, and the present is the only thing that is sane.
I'm not a scientist and just reading because it's interesting and what I can say about it is
Regardless of what the scientists research and what astrology says and what the television broadcasts,
It has been proven once again that we have no control over the forces of the earth and they are greater than us...
The event in Japan is not something unusual that has happened on this planet....
Over the millions of years that this ball has existed, much more severe tremors occurred that were not related to our moon,
This ball has gone through ups and downs like many balls go through... and the only difference is that there are now many people on this ball who find it difficult to understand that this is something natural and normal, but there is a chance that the dinosaurs also thought so... the only fact is that we cannot predict the next event, and understand that neither This ball will eventually have an end and that we are another small piece of the history of something much bigger than us.
Larami K.
Thank you for your short but interesting explanation.
The article on Channel 2 is the result of a translation by a "duck" journalist who flooded the internet last week. As far as I know, there was a "super moon" event on 12/12/2008 and the moon then passed at a distance of only 356,567 km, about 10 km less than the distance that passed last night.
Probably if the waters of the oceans are affected by the gravitational force of the moon
All the more a different liquid in the interior of the earth
and will apply his own pressures
Hello readers
In my opinion, there is a mistake in perceiving the earthquake event as an event that stands in its own right,
In my opinion, the end of a continuous process of accumulating elastic efforts over time and tidal processes that occur from time to time according to the strength of the tide in the constellation Land of the Moon and the Sun has faded,
There are missing numbers such as what is the amount of elastic energy stored in the uplifted seaboard?
What are the dynamic friction forces between the plates?
And most importantly - what are the static frictional forces between the marine and continental plates?
Thank you and Shabbat Shalom
A new thesis for plate movement and the cause of earthquakes
Rami Keenan, Ra'anana (18.03.11):
The Moon is the dominant factor lifting the plates. The uplift is "taken" from the oceanic mountain range. After the magma exits the crack, it solidifies and the seaboard cannot return to its place. After the number of elevations depending on the constellation of the Earth Moon and the Sun, the tablet is like a pressed spring that aspires to descend. When the moon is above a continental plate, it lifts and weakens the static frictional forces between the plates, as a result the sea plate below it will move to subduction and an earthquake will occur,
In the case of Japan, the moon was at the peak of its northern orbit - 23.8 degrees
A very short summary of a thesis I wrote and the space does not allow expanding the topic
Thanks to the readers
Shalom and peace
Rami Kenan
The article contradicts what I saw in the National a few months ago
A. Ben Ner:
If you already quoted from my response 29, it would have been appropriate to also mention its end:
"The thing is, if you take into account the data of the dates that my father mentioned, then what happened in Japan did not happen while the moon was in Phrygia, so the uniqueness of the current Phrygia could not be a significant factor."
Therefore, the article has everything necessary to convince of the lack of connection.
It is true, however, that there are also points in it that would have been better if they had been presented more precisely.
A. Ben Ner, the moon was 390 thousand kilometers away at that time, that is, halfway between the long distance and the short distance. So even if when approaching the strength of his tidal force is 7% greater, he was not simply there. Eight days is a lot in a month's route.
To my father Blizovsky
Even if your claim in this article is true, the article itself has nothing to convince the reader.
Michael Rothschild in his response #29 explained that the change caused by tidal forces as a result
It is about 7% of the moon's approach to Earth.
I believe that in this Ma'in article more arguments and data should be provided to confirm the claim.
It seems to me that the article deals too much with the identity of the claimants and lacks the substance
the arguments.
Following on from what I wrote, I'm still not sure about the scientific method, and even though you advocate it,
After all, it is impossible to know with certainty what caused what, even after one person decided that his path was marked by scientific functions.
Anyway, I really enjoy the site, and it is my favorite among the science sites - strong and courageous.
I would be happy if you ever bring up the subject of the HOLLOW EARTH theory - maybe that's where the solution to the tsunami is hidden.
hello my father
I wrote a thesis and sent it to you about the dominant factor being the moon that drives the plates, storing in them an elastic force that is released when the moon lifts the riding plate,
to note that the moon in Phrygia, + its northernmost orbit + the sun,
So far in the summary of the summaries
Thank you if you publish the whole thesis
Rami K
You all failed to notice that it happened on a non-Friday the 13th. It must mean something deep astro-numerological, full of sophisticated pseudo-words.
1. As the article stated, there is no known and proven connection between the moon and earthquakes. We have been dealing with the study of the phenomenon of earthquakes for a long time and we have not found studies that support this argument and present supporting evidence.
2. I didn't understand why the nonsense that is published in Nablus should be referred to mornings on channel 2, 10 and the like??? After all, their goal is to make profits and ratings, even at the cost of publishing fraudulent information (knowingly). In my opinion, there is no need at all to refer to what is said there.
Hanan Sabat
http://WWW.EURA.ORG.IL
Ofer:
You're rambling but I'm interested in asking you just one question:
What would a true and noble scientist say if they asked him if he sometimes says "no"?
: )
I read that following the earthquake the Earth's axis of rotation changed by 360° degrees,
Does anyone know what this means about the new date of Messiah's coming?
Avi,
Sorry for the bickering, but little me actually does not know that "all the studies have failed". The factual answer you provided regarding the connection distance on the day of the event should be sufficient.
I willingly admit that I am not up-to-date on all science news (otherwise I wouldn't be reading websites of this type), and at the same time, sometimes questions arise that need clarification.
It is not for nothing that theorems and theories are proven by repeated experiments, and it has already been said that the rigorous does not teach.
Of course, all these have nothing to do with mystical beliefs.
Regarding the moon theory:
Although the moon will come significantly closer to the Earth on March 19, but on the day of the earthquake (the 11th) the approach was average without anything unusual...
So what is the connection between this and the earthquake?
And how can a serious site like "Maku" publish something like this as a reliable news item?
To all the quacks, the rooting fools, the foils, the fools or in short: "people of faith",
The following section is dedicated with great love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-DgIU4E9Mo&feature=related
It may not be possible to know everything about everything, but we know everything we need to know about the moon's orbit around the earth, and NASA is following it down to the millimeter. All studies done to find a connection between the moon's orbit and earthquakes have failed. It really upset me to write an article saying that tomorrow the sun will rise just because the rest of the world decided that tomorrow in the morning will be night. And besides, the mystical sites invent nonsense that is then difficult to get rid of - see the 2012 entry.
Hello my father, it kills me that you say there is no connection between something and anything else in the world, what do we even know about our world, in a thousand years your scientific thoughts will be mentioned in schools with a forgiving smile. Pure science is charming, as far as I understand, a true and noble scientist will never utter the word no. The negation belongs to the world of passions.
A possible explanation is that part of a white dwarf or a brown dwarf crashed into the moon and got stuck inside it.
Since the density of matter in a brown/white dwarf is enormous, the moon where the dwarf is located will exert great gravitational forces
on earth and will pull the moon and earth towards each other.
To this day, the governments of the world have hidden the word of the event (the crash of the dwarf on the moon) that happened 5 days ago.
The results of the earthquake in Japan are only the beginning before the near end of the world that is expected to occur according to calculations
In early 2012.
In principle, tidal forces have an effect on volcanic activity and those who do not believe this are welcome to visit the moon Io (of Jupiter).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)
They also have an effect on the seismic activity on Earth and in response 22 a link was provided to a study that confirms this claim.
The distances mentioned in the article differ by more than two percent.
The tidal forces are characteristic, as already mentioned, to the third power of the distance, therefore the tidal force at a distance of 356,577 is approximately 7 percent greater than the tidal force acting at a distance of 364,397. These are not differences I would define as fractions of a percent.
Of course, the tide combined with that of the sun also has an effect (which happens when the moon is full and when it is "empty")
On Earth, tidal forces do not create the volcanic activity or the seismic activity but they can certainly have an effect on its timing.
The thing is, if you take into account the data of the dates that my father mentioned, then what happened in Japan did not happen while the moon was in Phrygia, so the uniqueness of the current Phrygia could not be a significant factor.
I noticed that no one commented on the nonsense that appears in the article. Supposedly there is also a connection to the fact that the moon is full. The size of the moon and the gravity it exerts
When it is full or it is just a "small scythe" does not affect at all. After all, its real size does not change in the two different situations. What changes is only its visual size. Isn't that right? What affects the small is only its distance from the earth.
The real reason for the earthquake is that the Japanese used invalid mezuzos that did not receive the blessing of Rabbi Shaar Yeshav, and everything else is speculation.
Science is indeed not a religion, but it very rarely returns to old conclusions that have been refuted. There is no fear that he will adopt astrology, so it is safe to say that there is no connection. What's more, I've already explained - we are a week before the approach, that is, halfway between the farthest point and the closest point, it is for a significant percentage of each month at this distance or greater than it or alternatively less than it. By that logic we should have had earthquakes every month for two weeks around the convergence point.
So it is not clear why in such a mediocre situation he increased natural processes when he does not do it every month.
The only thing in the phenomenon of combining the approach as there is every month, (in general even the astrologers do not claim that such an extreme approach was not thousands of years but 18 years) with the time when the moon will be full. Since the moon actually orbits the earth in 27 days, while we see it filling up or missing in a cycle of approximately 29 days only because we moved a little in relation to the sun during that month, there is no synchronization between the two phenomena, so the combination is relatively rare, but who knows what is rare.
It is not certain that there is no effect, there is no effect only when there are no earthquakes..but it is possible and in the case of a strong earthquake the proximity of the moon will increase its strength and make it extremely deadly!
Beyond that, my father and others live in the film that they are science itself or its representatives in Israel, and this is complete nonsense! Science is all a theory, an approach and a changing perception (it is not a rigid religion) that does not need defenders because it is not an entity that needs to be protected...it is simply a reflection of the current knowledge about the world that will not necessarily be valid in the future or in other worlds, and it is knowledge itself that is constantly changing to the point of contradiction of his own previous knowledge sometimes!
Let's hope that nothing happens on March 19th, but if it does then one should suspect the moon that increased natural processes.. In any case, I understood that Japan may come out of this earthquake injured! What many prime ministers have not been able to do, the powerful earthquake may achieve, and that is an exit from the economic stagnation thanks to the reconstruction like after the Second World War!
A note to Yehuda: without going into the details here. The effect of the moon on the tide is inverse to the third power of the distance and not to the square of the distance.
Aviloz
hello doc
In any case, the moon is very far from Phrygia. A week is a long time. In a week, he is halfway from the apogee (the farthest point) to the phrygia, because it takes him two weeks every month to get from the apogee to the phrygia and weeks to go the other way.
So it is really not far from the average between the phrygia and the apogee, and really not closer to the earth than it is close for two weeks every month - before and after the phrygia. So taking examples of his being in Phrygia is irrelevant.
Thanks for the article.
As a matter of fact, I am not sure that the automatic rejection of the effect of the combined gravitational forces of the Phrygian Moon and the Sun is indeed justified.
It is very likely that on average the effect of the gravity of the celestial bodies is indeed negligible, but given the point nature of earthquakes and fault dynamics, it is very possible that a strong tide or gravitational forces are the final straw.
To the untrained eye, this theory has references in the literature. Here is one:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022103948.htm
In response to the man - I updated the article with a quote from the Universe Today update.
Thank you Arnon, by the way the most read article on the Hidan website - over 110 thousand readers so far is this type of article - "Nothing will happen in 2012". And even today, hundreds of people entered that article and other articles refuting this superstition, because apparently someone also tried to make the current earthquake about 2012, even though there is still a year and a half until that "fatal" day.
Conclusion = Nevertheless, the hype against science is so strong that such articles are needed, and it is good to have them so that it is clear that there is no truth in this nonsense, but it still saddens me to be proven time and time again that the degree of ignorance in Israel is so great that such an intervention is needed.
I'm just asking.
Doesn't a larger-than-normal tidal phenomenon exert greater-than-normal pressures on the tectonic plates?
(something that can lead to the critical point where these slip and release energy)
Avi,
If you want to create change you can definitely use your "army of readers".
Given a "command" we can respond in real time to outrageous news on radio/television through Facebook pages or other existing means of media feedback.
If in response to the news of "Mars will show the size of the moon" they will receive a flood of responses, maybe they will check a little of such news before publishing it.
Regarding the other responses, those who know this site and read articles from it do not take seriously the nonsense that other stars tell and those who believe in astrology or who think that the disaster was caused because the Japanese do not observe Shabbat do not enter this site.
There are some who are at the point of the seam and making noise, there is nothing to be excited about and there is no need to fight.
You are talking about the approach of the moon which moves in a known orbit between 420 and 360 thousand km. That's what's important, and not that he got a few thousand km closer this month compared to last month. Therefore 36 percent is only the influence of the moon (besides the influence of the sun). According to the title it is about the approach of the moon and I was referring to that and not to the greater approach.
So we may be talking about two different things.
good week
Sabdarmish Yehuda
Yehuda, you took 420 and divided it into 360. You have to take the difference between the average approach and the approach this time, which is about 8,000 kilometers.
Arnon, it's like all the other sites will say that the sun will rise this morning at ten and I insisted that it had already risen at six in the morning. It's so trivial.
As someone who enters the site from time to time, I am surprised to see funny sentences in the article,
and a major one-time formulation of articles that cannot be seen anywhere else.
My mouth fell open, and I even laughed for a moment - but equally I did not understand the meaning behind the comments
My father's puzzling - after all - I, as one of the people - do not understand that this is a way to refute this type of claim, since,
In my opinion the moon was to blame, because that is what is said on other sites.
Thanks for clarifications
Everyone sings songs of praise and talks about fractions of percentages of differences in the gravitational pull in S.A
But the difference between the moon's gravity when it's close and when it's far away isn't just a few fractions of a percent. Gravity works according to the square of the distance and the difference between 420 thousand square kilometers and 360 thousand square kilometers and dividing one by the other we will find that the difference will be close to 36 percent. Definitely quite a bit!
Where did you get the two percentages?
good week
Sabdarmish Yehuda
Oak, all 10 inches = 25 cm... not 10 degrees.
oak-
That's exactly what I was talking about 🙂
And he also added that the configuration of the Philippine Islands has changed.
There is another phenomenon that occurred that Shard Nir mentioned in the main edition of Mochash, and that is that the earth deviated from its course following the earthquake. Can anyone really confirm this news?
I read that the Earth's axis moved by 10 degrees following the earthquake,
Does anyone know what this means and what it will affect?
I don't enjoy Avi Blizovsky's articles almost always, do you know why?
Because he puts his fanatical philosophy in there, at the beginning, at the end, who cares? The main thing is to market to the many.
Avi,
You can be a great convert.
Well done for the reasoned and rational response. Once again the science website proves its importance to those who are looking for real knowledge.
On the contrary, my father,
Here is your mistake - you are not "wasting time", you are using the site in the most optimal way to promote your goals. The site does not have the power to significantly help the Japanese overcome the disaster, but the site has the power to spread information and educate.
Although we may not agree on certain issues, I think it is important to point out and correct misconceptions in the public. I personally will welcome criticism of my perceptions, because I believe that in this way I can get closer to the truth (to be clear, I support your opinion on the subject in this article).
I understand that personally you may prefer to report on scientific developments, and not get into discussions and debates, but then don't be surprised at the perceptions and beliefs of the people.
I have only one reservation: it is the right of every person to hold any concept or belief he wishes, but when he brings it up for discussion on the site, it is his duty to try to prove its reasonableness in an acceptable and logical way. Even when we do not agree with his perception, we should not fear him as a person who will bring the Inquisition back, and start burning people for their opinions...
Bet-ya is right, thanks to your website the panic has calmed down.
Thanks so much for the article!
But why waste time?
I think that when the media publishes nonsense, the site's role is actually to correct it.
Not to help the Japanese, unfortunately (I will find out if it is possible to donate money, clothes, etc.). but to write more important articles of real scientific value and not a response to baseless mass hysteria. which is accompanied by the media. After all, the knowledge of an astronomy enthusiast at the level of an elementary school is enough to understand that it has no meaning beyond beauty.
Thank you very much for the article.
You clarified some very important things for me regarding the influence of the moon on the earth. At first thought, the combination of data is quite suspicious: moon close to earth, suddenly a deadly earthquake. People who are not familiar with these phenomena can easily conclude that the earthquake is due to the approach of the moon.
Unfortunately, the news sites join and cheer this theory, so that a state of trust in the theory is easily created. It's a shame that the news sites publish news without verifying it first.
"The Israeli science website needs to waste resources on this nonsense"
As if instead of helping the Japanese you are diverting resources to refute such claims.
Your way of phrasing my father is simply shocking.
I suggest you learn to express yourself or not write news in this style at all.