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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!emory!athena!keck
- From: keck@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul)
- Subject: Re: Yet Another Saturn Myth Variant
- Message-ID: <C17wwC.1Et@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia
- References: <C13oKn.Az3@world.std.com> <1993Jan20.101924.27484@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.062150.19564@trl.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:02:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.062150.19564@trl.oz.au> jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) writes:
- >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).
- >
- >Do I believe in it myself? Why yes, sometimes I catch myself wondering
- >if, after all...
-
- I will only comment on the "two hours" part, since I remember someone else
- saying this before, and I wouldn't want it to go unchallenged.
-
- Fossil coral records, specifically from the Devonian period, show annual and
- daily growth rings (as do modern corals). These clearly point to a year
- made of about 380 days (number off the top of my head- it's only a few
- longer than now, though). So, if you belive the fossil record, no go.
-
- Paul Keck I'm not a coral polyp, but I play one on TV.
-