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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Cosmos without Gravitation
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.233044.11097@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1992Dec29.143703.7029@hsr.no> <1992Dec29.164826.5044@linus.mitre.org> <1992Dec31.070344.15578@hsr.no>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 23:30:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.070344.15578@hsr.no> onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
- >>}
- >>}That is simply not true. The moon is rotating (ever heard of earth rise?)
- >>}although only slightly.
- >>
- >>wobbles, not rotate. If it rotated, 100% would (eventually) become visable.
- >>It doesn't.
- >
- >Sorry! My fault! Earthrise is of course not caused by rotation but rather more an
- >effect called liberation. This allows us to see about 60% of the moon from earth.
-
- "Liberation"? You must mean "libation"--that's the standard technique for
- causing "earthrise." You don't even have to go to the moon to do it--just
- keep trying and soon enough you'll see the earth rise up.
-
- Trygve (Though I suppose he could have meant "libration" but that's
- probably a long shot....)
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