Wiki: List of common misconceptions

[Train]

A popular myth regarding human sexuality is that men think about sex every seven seconds. In reality, there is no scientific way of measuring such a thing and, as far as researchers can tell, this statistic greatly exaggerates the frequency of sexual thoughts

I would say it was underreported, not exagerated.

 

[DrPizza]

Are you serious? The "hold" they have on eachother only gets weaker as they move apart. It's speed is simply not right for a sustained orbit at it's mass. It will not simply move out and stabilize. An external force would have to slow it down.

Your post is absolute nonsense. Haven't you even taken a high school physics class??? You think that it's magically in orbit, but would need to be orbiting at a different speed to actually exist in that orbit?? The recession of the moon is due to tidal forces, not by some fancy misconception about the speed or mass of the moon.

Now, you do know about tides, right? Most people might think that the tides are lined up directly with the moon. However, due to the Earth's rotation, the tide actually leads the moon by about 10 degrees. This results in the earth's spin being slowed down, and some of that energy (a pretty small percentage) is transferred to the moon, speeding up its orbit. Most of the energy is lost to heat.

Eventually, 50 Billion years, or something like that - (actually, long after the Sun has swallowed both) - the Earth and Moon would have been locked in orbit with the same side of the Earth always facing the same side of the moon, at which point, the moon's recession will have stopped.

Really, though, you just made your post to be funny, right? It seems funny that in a thread about information that can easily be found on the internet that you could possibly have been responding seriously with such a load of nonsense.

 

[disappoint]

There's a great line in Cat's Cradle about this kind of issue. There is a secretary speaking with a senior scientist - she sees and the exchange between her and the scientist:
That last line from the secretary seems to fit exactly what your co-worker said.

Ah Miss Pefko from the typing pool. A little slow that one and I'm not talking about her typing. Good book. Makes you glad the creator of the universe decided to make it impossible to crystallize h2o on good ole planet earth with a seed crystal eh? But you couldn't prove it by me...you couldn't prove it by me.