Of course the earth is also a huge mass, and much closer to the pendulum. But obviously, all the other mass out there, though much further away, when summed up act more strongly on the pendulum than the earth's mass.
Event horizons do not occur just due to the number of words placed in a single post.
This is a case where ones ability to regard the post as having any potential whatsoever is taken into account only by those few chosen ones, such as myself... lol