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- From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Yet Another Saturn Myth Variant
- Message-ID: <402610d4b@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:33:22 GMT
- Lines: 27
- X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan 3 1993
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- Who: MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Mats Andtbacka)
- What: <1993Jan22.123104.26652@abo.fi>
- With: <236@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (Ted Holden)
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- TH> "I have never spoken of 'diminishing the gravitational field
- TH> of the earth,' since that would [?] something stranger than I
- TH> know anything about in the way of physics...
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- MA> "We agree on that one! Read on, however..."
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- TH> the only statement I have ever made here is that in antediluvian
- TH> times, living creatures on earth felt the gravitational pull
- TH> of some other body aside from the earth as well as the earth's
- TH> pull, and that threfore the perceived/felt effect of gravity was
- TH> less."
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- Ted, I have looked up geological dating periods, and do not find
- "antediluvian." Was this before or after neolithic? Precambrian?
- The McCarthy era? What does "antediluvian" mean?
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- Correcting idiot department: The universe does not work the way
- you want it to. No mechanism exists that will augment gravity the
- way you require. Sorry, guy.
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