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- Path: sparky!uunet!fedfil!news
- From: news@fedfil.UUCP (news)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Yet Another Saturn Myth Variant
- Message-ID: <236@fedfil.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:05:23 GMT
- References: <222@fedfil.UUCP> <C13oKn.Az3@world.std.com> <1993Jan20.101924.27484@abo.fi>
- Organization: HTE
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- In article <1993Jan20.101924.27484@abo.fi>, MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Mats Andtbacka) writes:
- > 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 have never spoken of "diminishing the gravitational field of the earth",
- since that would something stranger than I know anything about in the way
- of physics... the only statement I have ever made here is that in
- antediluvian times, living creatures on earth felt the gravitational pull
- of some other body aside from the earth as well as the earth's pull, and that
- threfore the perceived/felt effect of gravity was less. The felt effect of
- gravity diminishes quite a bit when you jump into a swimming pool... water
- boueyancy.
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- Ted Holden
- HTE
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