Japan Disaster. So, We're Blaming The Moon Now?

Japan is the latest victim of what seems to be a growing trend of natural disasters across the globe.

On Friday an earthquake, measuring 8.9 on the richter scale, that originated under the sea bed, just off the north coast of Japan and triggered a tsunami, has not only killed approximately one thousand people, but has also reportedly moved the Earth from it's axis by roughly 4 inches.

A true global catastrophe.

Now there are fears over desperate attempts to contain the Nuclear Power Plants Fukushima 1 and 2, as they both struggle to repair cooling and safety systems. They are evacuating the local areas. Anything could happen next.



So with mines collapsing, Queensland and Victoria flooding and Christchurch experiencing it's own earthquake, what does this mean, if anything?

Is it coincidence and a whole lot of bad luck?

In recent months many lives have been lost, and countless more have been transformed forever, in what seems a growing epidemic of tragic blow after tragic blow. Economies are in flux, as are governments, local and national, right across the world.

There is a growing sense of uncertainty and apprehension.

And then the nutters come out to play.

I love a unique, out-of-the-box-thinking perspective as much as the next person, but enough is enough. Now some are blaming the moon. The moon! Earth's very own satellite that has kept our home company in the heavens for immeasurable time is being treated as a scapegoat.

So, yes, we may indeed be witnessing the End Of Days, revving up for the BIG SHOW in 2012, when Armageddon comes, but I doubt the moon is a cohort of the approaching Apocalypse.

Yes, it is commonly known that the moon does have a "pull" on the oceans' tides, but cause earthquakes and tsunamis? I don't think so. The science doesn't back it up. A tsunami is triggered when the sea bed is driven upwards, not from the to and fro motion of the tides.

So why are people pointing the finger at the moon? Well, as with the Earth and most planets (I'm not God and don't know if our "laws" apply to all planets everywhere in the Universe! It's tough being only almost perfect), the moon is always in motion, and currently is almost at it's closest proximity to us on it's regular orbit. Some have theorised that natural disasters often increase in number when the moon is close to us. The evidence is shaky at best.

Who knows?! These nutters might be correct. If so I welcome them to prove me wrong. But I tend to think bad things just happen. It might be comforting for people to be able to identify a reason for such tragedy, but in life I do think sometimes bad things happen, without rhyme or reason.

We humans are tough. It's Japan's turn to be tough now. My thoughts are with them.