The earths mass is being sucked into the sun by the suns gravity

[Neolystic]

It's on the same level as my theory that spiritons from the discorporate dimension, sleeting down from the twentyseventh orgonezone, drag matter particles along with them, producing the illusion of gravity.

I think I heard that theory before, on an old episode of Mork & Mindy perhaps? 

[brian334]

If the distance between the moon and the earth is increasing maybe it is because the volume and mass of the moon and earth is decreasing, at the same time the velocity of the moon is unchanged.

[christo4_99]

if memory serves me correctly the inner planets are more solid and the outer planets are more gaseous...in order for the sun to be shrinking the earth the earth has to be giving up it's mass in an observable way...i don't think the sun is "using" the earth to make energy...more like the earth is "using" the sun to keeps it's trojectory and it's average surface temperature.

[brian334]

For gravity to flow from one mass to another there needs to be a ground with sufficient mass. For example if there are two glasses on a table there is no gravity between them because nether mass is sufficient to ground the other. However there is gravity between the glasses and earth because the earth has sufficient mass to ground the glasses and make gravity flow.

[sparks]

    There is polar loss of ions which are continually lost as an Earth generated ion wind.  This loss of mass is continously replenished as solar wind or coronal mass migration.  The Earth is a child of the Sun and the sun is a good parent.   The Earth is an infrared standing wave field surrounded by a plasma envelope and magnetosphere resulting from the plasma current.  The Earth glows.