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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 1992 11:41:09 CST
- From: Wesley Bielinski <U53734@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92323.114110U53734@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Lunar astronaut covers earth with thum
- References: <1992Nov16.220542.15162@mav.com>
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- My understanding was that at the horizon you have a frame of reference
- (say a tre) with which you can estimate the size. At the zentih the
- tree is gone and yore eye focuses towards infintity thus making the moon
- APPEAR smaller, when in reality it hasn't changed. Or something like
- that, it's been a while :-)
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- Wesley J. Bielinski, Support RKBA | "An out of air situation is not
- U53734@uicvm.uic.edu | as critical in SCUBA diving
- Support the 2nd Amdendment | as it is in skydiving!"
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