The Roche Limit

People are starting to peel away from the Democratic Party as it falls deeper into the gravity well of the Left Singularity. (Tulsi Gabbard is a prominent and recent example, but there are many others.)

If readers will forgive me for saying “I told you so”, in a post four years ago I used an astronomical metaphor for this: there’s a thing called the Roche limit, which is the orbital distance from a planet or star within which the stretching effect of tidal forces becomes so strong that they overwhelm the gravitational force holding a satellite together. (It’s why Saturn has rings.)

The context for the post was the apostasy of a liberal essayist, William Deresciewicz, from what he described as a suffocating “religion” that was taking over the universities — so the post ties in nicely also with our recent items on the “religious stance”, here and here.

Read the 2017 post here.

2 Comments

  1. Whitewall says

    People falling away from this current “Democratic” party are seeing that it is now controlled by what can simply be described as bad people. Controlled by elected office holders as well as unelected.

    Posted November 22, 2021 at 12:32 pm | Permalink
  2. ErisGuy says

    Think of all the damage done since 2017: stolen elections, corrupt DAs, riots, corporations responsible to their community giving back by firing dissenters; schools and universities stinking more than ever of Leftism….

    Roche Limit (that’s clever—you could have been an SF writer) or not, there is no end in sight: that moment when the moon shatters and its wreckage spirals down to its destruction. No one will want to be on the ground below.

    Who’s up for 30 Years’ War redux? (To propose independent Blue & Red states choose the religion of their people is to paraphrase Westphalia.)

    (As an aside, I’ve seen speculation that Earth had more than one moon, and that tracks of craters mark where the earlier, smaller satellites crashed to Earth after entering its Roche LImit.)

    Posted November 25, 2021 at 8:26 am | Permalink

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