how is the moon’s gravity strong enough to make ocean waves but barely strong enough to affect humans?
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Not waves, but tides. Tides are caused by differences in gravity. They happen in oceans because one side of the ocean can be significantly nearer the moon than the other, and gravity pulls harder on things that are nearer. But people are much smaller so they experience no measurable tidal effects directly. Tides are really only noticeable on really large objects.
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