Lunar Drift?????

Mahatma coat

OK, So I was watchin a docco on the fall of Ancient Egypt and it come down to there being a massive and unprecedented Drought period at the end of the Old kingdom, where the floods which had been the life blood of the Nile Delta just stopped, this coresponds to the fall of other civilisations around the same time like the Arcadsians <sp> of 'Turkey' and the general decline and desertification of the Sahara region.

Next, I remembered another docco about the Moon landings, one of the Experiments thats still functioning today is the Lazer array for measuring Distance between the earth and the Moon.

Now this is where I need the help of the Posters in this particular Forum

the Moon Docco said that the Moon was slowly drifting away from the earth, something like an Inch a decade/year.

The moon influences the tides Right

Would this difference in distance affect the tidal levels to an extent that happened in the Nile Delta 5000 odd years ago?

I may be wrong here but I kinda visualise the Moon and the oceans as a kind of magnet passing over a pile of magnetic filings at a specific distance, the filings rise and fall as the magnet moves, but if you move the magnet out a bit further the effect is weakened gradually.

Is this a possibility.

If So, could it have any bearing on Current Climate fluctuations??

johnmcdnl

maybe over millions of years - but 5000 inches over a distance of 240000 miles... highly unlikely

also these floods just stopped overnight pretty much didn't they which is what caught the Egyptians out - can't see how it would be down the the moon tbh..

if these floods stopped over the course of 1000s of years maybe - it happened pretty fast - highly unlikely to be down to the moon


and finally - why hasn't it happened anywhere else really that comes to mind???

surely it'd affect other bodies of water around the globe just as much

rccaulfield

Egypt suffered invasions one after the other in our recorded history, i've never heard of a problem with the Nile as a cause of any of the dynastys demise?
Cause for climate change=no its been factored in and the effect is negligble in terms of less then a million years!

keane2097

johnmcdnl wrote: »

if these floods stopped over the course of 1000s of years maybe - it happened pretty fast - highly unlikely to be down to the moon

How would a flood stop over the course of thousands of years? A river either floods or it doesn't.