08-03-2010, 04:25 AM
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Planting Crops By Moon Phases
Bill who putters wrote:
In article ,
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:
Bill who putters wrote:
In article ,
(EVP MAN) wrote:
Does anyone think that planting crops by the phase of the moon
really makes any difference at all? Myself, I'm kind of a
sceptic about this whole moon phase thing.
Rich
http://www.astrologie-info.com/mocal...ng&sidtrop=sid
Nay what effects can there be on us from a object so far away? OK
tides and menstrual periods but plant life come on.
Bill
Even the influence on MPs is very doubtful. The average MP interval
(28 days) doesn't closely match the interval between full moons (29
1/2) and individual women have cycles that are even less closely
related. Why don't other mammals have a cycle that matches the
moon? Our closest relatives the bonobos and chimpanzees have cycles
of 35 and 45 days. If controlled by the moon why are all women not
synchronised? This connection is poor science and much history and
superstition, just like astrology.
David
Ah it is good when the bait is taken.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16407788
Munchie munchie
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