Background



	The moon orbits the earth. The pull of the moon's gravity on the earth causes tides, bulges of water on the earth's 
surface. The pull of the moon on the earth is causing the earth to slow down, and the pull of the earth on the moon is 
causing the moon to move faster and slowly spiral out, making the moon's orbit farther from the earth, and hence the moon's 
pull on the Earth is weaker, and the tides are lower.



	Due to this slow decrease of the size of tides, and corresponding decrease in the size of dominant species, evidence 
has arisen to support the tide theory of Evolution.


Theory

65 million years ago, the tides were 10 times as high, the day was shorter, and the moon was closer to the earth. 
The dominant species were the dinosaurs, solely because they were so large they could not be knocked over by the tides. 
This fallacy in smaller species prevented them from being the dominant species.



In present times, the tides are much lower. The dinosaurs are extinct, and humans are the dominant species, because 
the tides cannot knock us over, but it does knock over cats, dogs, cockroaches, leprechauns and fairies.



These observations allow us to theorize that as the moon spirals away from the earth and the tides continue to grow 
lower, the dominant species will slowly decrease in size. Humans will become extinct, and millions of years from now, insects 
will be the dominant species on earth. 



We can further predict the end of life on Earth. As mentioned before, the moon is slowing the rotation of the earth. 
Hence, one day the earth will come to a grinding halt. The moon will no longer be pulled in its orbit, and the tide will no 
longer change. High tide will always be in the same place, hence the tide will no longer be functional. With no tide, no species 
can be knocked over, no species can be dominant, and so life on Earth can no longer exist.







This story was written for fun when Brad and I took introductory astronomy. It was very fun to write, and we even turned it in 
as part of our extra credit reports, because we thought our professor might find it amusing as well.





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