What I find unsettling is that our Moon rotates at a the precise perfect speed to make us "see always the same side". From all the possible speed values in the universe, why precisely that one?!
https://numbergenerator.org/randomnumbergenerator/1-10000000...
Wow! 197100522! (what i got on my first hit)
Out of all the possible numbers, what are the odds? 1 in a billion! Two consecutive 0's! And two consecutive twos! What do you think they mean? And 5 in between? Well 5 times 2 is 10 which ends in a 0. But it starts with 1971, which is only 1 year off from the start of Unix time, which can't be a coincidence! etc.
Can't wait until the moment in the future where
DISTANCE_FROM_EARTH_TO_MOON / DISTANCE_FROM_EARTH_TO_SUN = FINE_STRUCTURED_CONSTANTIf it's common, then what commonality causes that outcome?
But to be more precise on what that means, on a long time scale, the rotation speed of one object orbiting another tends to either speed up or slow down until one side is always facing the larger object.
Many other moons in the solar system do this with their parent planet, and Mercury does this with the sun.
It's happening to Earth as well, albeit too slowly to matter.
Edit: Google says it’s not.
A superstitious person might suspect there were some cosmic hand tuning the celestial clockwork. Perhaps the motions of the planets has deep resonances with our own lives? You can see why astrology might have some appeal…