Parker, you Wrote:
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> A sine wave is going to be closer to reality than
> a simple linear effect, because the moon is going
> round the earth, not back and forth in a straight
> line.

Straw Man: I did not state that it is linear; I stated that it is not sinusoidal. But then, you already knew that.

> Incidentally, it is the synodic period we are
> dealing with here - which is indeed 29.53 days -
> what I meant was the period from one zyzyge back
> to the same zyzyge - not the opposing one, but I
> assume you understood that, but just weren't
> saying.

Oh dear. Now the sicko-phants are not only disagreeing amongst themselves but with their spiritual master as well.

Clue: Hancock's Velikovskian drivel was: "Earthquakes, for example, occur more often when the moon is full or when the earth is between the sun and the moon; when the moon is new or between the sun and the earth; when the moon crosses the meridian of the affected locality; and when the moon is closest to the earth on its orbit." (FOG, Century, 2001, p246)

It was untrue when he wrote it, it is still untrue. If you want to claim that the correlation is only with Full Moon, then you are on even a worse hiding than Velikovsky-via-Hancock and the sicko-phants that toe that line.

>
> I stand by my calcs,

I expect no less of you, Parker. Stoop to anything rather than confess that you have been peddling drivel, eh?


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Stephen