Talk:Earth tide

2008

1. Can this article be written or re-written so it can be understood? 2. Can Earth "tides" be harnessed to produce energy? 76.175.97.243 (talk) 16:22, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

- 1. That would be nice. - 2. As the movement is a max of circa 40cm, probably not, despite the huge energies involved.

IceDragon64 (talk) 15:51, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Can this be saved?

This material is copied from a public domain source (U.S. government work), describing something that appears not to be in the Tide article. I removed the copyvio speedy tag, and moved it to the right name, and will mark it as a stub for attention by editors in the geology field. --MCB 20:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Needs the energy put into the earth. Also is there an equation that allow for the calcuation of the magnitude of the earth tide based on the tabular components in the article? The earth tide calulater noted in the article is password protected. 71.184.240.36 (talk) 23:26, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Merging into tide

• No. Terrestial tidal mechanics are quite different from ocean and lake tides.rmo13 20:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• No. As vote above, this is a significantly different effect to water tides, and this is stated baldly in the article. 12:07, 15 June 2007 (BST)

layout of images

Someone may want to change the layout of the images. This is how it looks on a 1280x1024 monitor. The body tide section looks a bit...odd with the text scrunched up like that on the left.--Rockfang (talk) 21:02, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Tide constituents symbols and abbreviations

Hi I know for instance, MM corresponds to the "Moon Monthly" tide, also SA is "Solar Annual", but I don't know the meanings for many many other of tide-related abbreviations, it should be useful to compile a table of it, what is K1, for instance? And MSM? Greetings —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.105.47.82 (talk) 17:20, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

added link

189.188.12.156 (talk) 15:30, 21 May 2013 (UTC) baden

Everyday person ?

Can this article be tweaked to relate more to an everyday person? I am so tired of Wikipedia filling up with technical terms and equations. Y'all are so full of pursuing endless "credibility" goals, but surely the people who want equations don't come here anyway.

How about "The solid Earth bulges very slightly, usually up to around 40cm, in response to the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon. This has the effect that..." and find one or two things that everyday folk might understand as at all important. No?

IceDragon64 (talk) 14:04, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Yes please. This article is utterly useless for learning, it seems to presume the reader to already be an expert on the topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:79C:CEB8:3BBC:D92C:993C:1EAF:63B2 (talk) 16:16, 28 July 2020 (UTC)