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		truculent on March 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, ... Would we expect the oscillation to get smaller over time, like a pendulum, or is that stretching the analogy too far?

exe34 on March 18, 2024 [–]

There might be some gas in the way that would slow it down slightly, but I expect that to be a very long time scale compared to other things like interactions with other systems and even the upcoming collision with Andromeda.

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