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- From: sheppamj@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Matthew Sheppard)
- Subject: Re: ROTATION OF THE MOON
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:01:19 GMT
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- wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) writes:
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- >In article <10160@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM| tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Trevor German) writes:
- >| Re: sending a message to the future.
- >|
- >| I have a much better idea. Take a dead satelite. A big one,
- >| like say the moon. Then blast its surface with enough nukes to
- >| make an easily recognisable pattern that would be only partly
- >| erased by comet and meteoride collisions. Then just for good measure,
- >| adjust the rotational velocity of the moon so that the message
- >| always faces the earth. The message could be something like
- >| a big face......................
- >|
-
- >And put it at a distance so that it subtends the same angular diameter
- >as the sun.
-
- Question:
- Why is the moon orbiting the earth at the same rate it rotates? It
- can't be pure luck that the same side of the moon is always facing us.
-
- Perhaps someone already tried to send us a message and we just haven't
- read it yet.
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- --
- | Matthew Sheppard CLARKSON UNIVERSITY sheppamj@sun.soe.clarkson.edu |
- | I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.ANoN |
- | I don't want a pickle. DoD#477 TEP#477 RIDE FREE (8^]..etcetera.. |
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