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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Re: Yet Another Saturn Myth Variant
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.134106.16927@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <222@fedfil.UUCP^<C13oKn.Az3@world.std.com> <234@fedfil.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:41:06 GMT
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- In article <234@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
- }In article <C13oKn.Az3@world.std.com>, twalters@world.std.com (Tim Walters) writes:
- }^In article <222@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
- }^>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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- Called "trojan points"
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- }^Gee, Ted, what would happen to the felt effect of gravity if the earth
- }^were suspended at a point of equal attraction like that? Wouldn't it
- }^be 1g?
- }
- }Unfortunately, I do not possess a time machine to allow me to see precisely
- }which form (of those proposed) the Saturnian configuration actually took,
- }or to tell you precisely how it worked. Perhaps the earth was being held
- }in an electro-magnetic baricenter, and the gravitational forces were yet
- }unequal.
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- Unfortunately, you do not possess the knowledge of physics to preceive the
- absurdity of this statement. What is an "electro-magnetic baricenter"?
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