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- From: davep@paladin.corp.sgi.com (David Packer)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Lunar astronaut covers earth with thumb
- Message-ID: <1e9h76INN4nl@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:17:26 GMT
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- Gee,
-
- A) Maybe lovell has extra small eyes...therefore reducing his
- field of vision..making closer objects seem much larger than
- objects farther away (look through a refractor from the wrong end).
-
- B) Don't atmospheric effects play a part in this?? Maybe it was an
- exceptionally cold day on the moon...(so many errors in such a
- short sentence).
-
- C) Reletively speaking...it is possible that the gravitational forces
- of the earth bend light in slightly as they leave the earth. causing
- the opposite of Eiensteins gravitational magnifyer...
-
- %^)
-
- Dave...
-