But water isn't the only thing spinning at 1000mph, why does nothing else get affected by the moon?
Have you heard of land tides?
I think I might have briefly heard of them.
I don't think they matter much, because will your house expand and contract upwards?
The answer is that solids are much less affected by the 0.0003% change, and any other earthly forces are much much greater.
Tree branches and leaves should be affected by gravity, but the strength of the branch itself keeps it from moving. Can a toddler handle 0.3grams of force? yeah, probably wouldn't even tip over. So a solid tree branch will not be impacted much from the moon.
Also any wind would definitely cancel out anything that even approached a moon effect.
To see results things have to be huge - ocean huge or lake huge.
You would think they would be noticeable, like the tides. Maybe even more so because land is more solid and has much more friction.
The moon is huge, why doesn't the earth pull it down?
The video I watched for the percent calculation talked about that. In an orbit, the moon wants to move in a straight line (as does the ISS, and every satellite) but the force of the earth keeps it "falling" at the same distance all the time.
Here is the 1/20th of an inch document from Newton.
http://www.michaelbeeson.com/interests/GreatMoments/Newton.pdf
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