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[–] ScottRockview 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Find out this one neat trick farmers have been using for hundreds of years.

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[–] ratsmack [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Yay, somebody got it... The Farmers Almanac.

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[–] Amadameus 2 points 0 points (+2|-2) ago 

Makes sense - if the moon's gravity can pull the oceans back and forth into tides, we should expect it to affect all kinds of stuff.

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[–] supernatendo 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Just because it is a half-moon doesn't mean the gravity is half... The whole thing is still there...

edit: There is a typo in the article title, I think they meant moon's position and not moon's phase.

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[–] Internet_Celeb 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Uhhh, half of the gravity isn't gone, but an amount is

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[–] hi5enigma 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Or, does the tide instead affect the rainfall detector's measurements accuracy?

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[–] Veni_Vidi_Vici 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

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[–] KyJoCaThe2nd 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Not sure how that directly contributes anything considering the article makes no mention of effect (of lack thereof) of tidal forces or the Moon at all.

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[–] CeepsNo 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Great, now the next dumb that tells me horoscopes and full moons impact our behavior will have a sprinkle of science on top of some bullshit

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[–] blind-science 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The change is 0.78 micrometers, or less than one ten thousandth of an inch, per hour.

Interesting, but given that it is in the tropics where rainfall intensities are likely to be 10+ mm/hr the tidal influence of 0.00078mm/hr is less than 0.01%!

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[–] Nietzsche__ 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Wait till China mines it for minerals if there are any.

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[–] ratsmack [S] ago 

That would be a very expensive endeavor.