
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson
CLARIFICATION: Tidal forces scale as the cube of distance. That’s how you get the factor 8000 = 20 x 20 x 20. No oceans yet on Earth 4-Billion years ago, but there are also crustal tides of the solid Earth, rising 8,000 times higher than the 15 inches it rises and falls today. — PolitiTweet.org