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- From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
- Subject: Re: Yet Another Saturn Myth Variant
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.062150.19564@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <222@fedfil.UUCP> <C13oKn.Az3@world.std.com> <1993Jan20.101924.27484@abo.fi>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:21:50 GMT
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- MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Mats Andtbacka) writes:
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- >In article <222@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
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- >>This would involve Earth and possibly one or two other small planets
- >>being suspended BETWEEN Jupiter and Saturn, possible at or near some point
- >>of equal attraction, which you might call a "baricenter" or some such.
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- > Do you mean a Lagrange point, Ted? That would not diminish the
- >gravitational field of the Earth at all.
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- I still think my very own homebrewed theory explains it all much better:
- in those days the earth revolved in two hours, so that near the equator
- you weight half as much as at the poles, courtesy of "la force centrifuge"
- (sounds much more convincing when put in a foreign language).
-
- This theory has the advantage of being falsifiable: we ought to find
- fossils of very much larger creatures near the equator only.
-
- Do I believe in it myself? Why yes, sometimes I catch myself wondering
- if, after all...
-