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== Skeptical Quote of the Week <small>(1:53:18)</small> ==
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|text	=	I'd rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don't, even if the moon won't return the feeling.
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'''S:''' All right, Evan, give us a quote.

'''E:''' "I'd rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don't, even if the moon won't return the feeling." Alex London, American writer. I like this sentiment a lot because when I look at the moon, I have a sense of gratefulness that we have a moon. Not all planets have moons. Yeah, it would be great to have even more than one, but having at least one. Could you imagine not having the moon? I mean how different would things be? That's an interesting thought.

'''J:''' Yeah, I mean the earth would be very different. The ocean would be very different.

'''B:''' I mean life might not have even evolved.

'''E:''' Right, right. Would there be life as we know it?

'''S:''' Well, the moon protects us from asteroids. There would still be tides because there's solar tides. The sun produces a tide, just not quite as strong as the moon. Early on, the tides from the moon were responsible for bringing a lot of minerals into the oceans, which was important for life.

'''B:''' Because the tides were like 10,000 feet tall, they would scour hundreds of miles inland.