Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: heavenly bodies Message-ID: <2108@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 00:06:59 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2108 Posted: Wed Jun 13 00:06:59 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 23:39:00 EDT References: <99@tekigm.UUCP> <7975@watmath.UUCP> <796@pyuxa.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 8 The argument about tying a rope from the moon to the earth doesn't hold water. If the earth end of that rope were moved to the sun then it WOULD end up winding around the moon. All you proved was that the moon keeps the same face towards the earth, which is well known. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar